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Federal Judge: If Torture Prevents Detainee Convictions, ‘So Be It’

By | 01.22.10 | 1:15 pm

One concern that may animate the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force deciding that about 50 detainees must be held indefinitely without trial is that the basis for any prosecution is evidence obtained through torture or abuse. Judge John Coughenour, a sitting federal judge on the U.S. District Court in Seattle, More…

Fight Brews Between Civil Liberties Groups and Obama

By | 07.01.09 | 6:00 am

It was a blind quote hitting the civil-libertarian solar plexus. Bad enough that, as ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer and The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported late on Friday afternoon, the Obama administration was readying an executive order for a system for preventive detention in terrorism cases. President Obama More…