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Gitmo and the Bogus ‘Enemy Combatants’ Trials Should Be Ceased Immediately
By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guantánamo “the worst of the worst.” General Richard B. Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned they were “very dangerous people who would gnaw hydraulic lines in the back of a C-17 to bring it down.” These claims were…
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It’s Subpoena Time
The New York Times, Editorial For months, senators have listened to a parade of well-coached Justice Department witnesses claiming to know nothing about how nine prosecutors were chosen for firing. This week, it was the turn of Bradley Schlozman, a former federal attorney in Missouri, to be uninformative and not credible. It is time for…
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CIA Agents Go on Trial in Italy Before Bush Visit
By Phil Stewart, Reuters Hours before President George W. Bush visits Italy, 26 U.S. citizens go on trial in absentia in Milan on Friday accused of carrying out one of Washington’s most controversial policies in its war on terrorism. The U.S. citizens, almost all believed to be CIA agents, have been charged with kidnapping a…
