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GOP Senators to Holder: Don’t Investigate Torture
You know what Monday is, right? That’s the date, ordered by Judge Alvin Hellerstein, for the government to disclose the CIA inspector general’s 2004 report into the agency’s torture apparatus to the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. That document, which according to reports is filled with grisly tales of [...]
ACLU Reacts to Johnson on Post-Acquittal Detention
Jameel Jaffer, head of the American Civl Liberties Union’s national security project, has a few problems with Defense Department General Jeh Johnson’s speculation yesterday that the Obama administration might detain people even after they’ve been acquitted in a terrorism trial. From a just-released statement:
“Continuing to detain a person indefinitely without charge or trial for a [...]
ACLU on Johnson: ‘The Latest Example of Chaotic Debate’ on Detentions
I asked the American Civil Liberties Union’s Chris Anders, a military commissions opponent, to react to Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s indication that the administration might consider detaining someone even after he’s been acquitted of wrongdoing in court. In replying, Anders pointed to another exchange from the Senate Armed Services Committee that I had neglected:
Jeh [...]
The Incredible Lightness of Gitmo Hearings
There are few light moments in the habeas corpus cases of Guantanamo detainees, given that most of these men have been holed away in cells or cages for years without charge or even a chance to see the evidence against them. Generally, not so funny.
Which makes this exchange captured by Adam Serwer at The American [...]
The Washington Post Wakes Up to Civil Liberties
Carrie Johnson in The Washington Post today picks up on a problem we’ve been writing about at TWI for months now: when it comes to information about crimes committed by the previous administration, President Obama isn’t following through on his big commitments to “open government.”
“Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Obama administration of forsaking campaign [...]
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