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3 Feb 2010, 6:47 am
Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained in 2002 under the U.S. government’s “extraordinary rendition” program and then deported to Syria, where he was held and allegedly tortured for a year, has filed a petition for certiorari, the AFP reported yesterday. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 2:10 pm
Bush, for instance by disallowing victims of extraordinary rendition from suing Washington for torture suffered overseas. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 3:16 am
The 2008 document is one of a series of documents revealed through freedom of information requests put in by the all-party parliamentary group on extraordinary rendition. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 2:04 am
To “decide how to implement extraordinary rendition,†he wrote, is “for the elected members of Congress â€" and not for us as judges. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 3:42 am
He applauds the intel apparatus that engaged in nefarious deeds in the past, torture and extraordinary rendition,* for example, at the behest of an earlier administration without qualms. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 11:38 am
Hadn’t had a square meal for hours which is probably why I was over refreshed… Normally, of course I accept all drinks invitations at the drop of a hat and I am sure a friend who was holding a goddam fireworks party took my excuse on the phone that I was on a CIA Extraordinary Rendition flight with a pinch of salt. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:13 am
The Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard released a joint statement indicating there would be an investigation into allegations of extraordinary rendition of suspects in Libya, while British officials also announced that the two UK officers accused of participating in these alleged actions wouldn’t face criminal charges. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 10:03 am
George Bush - a man who waged an unrelenting campaign against the Rule of Law in America and authorized the torture of detainees at Guantanamo and "dark sites" in foreign countries through extraordinary rendition - should not be invited to speak to an organization whose highest value is the survival, indeed the thriving vitality, of the Rule of Law in America. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 5:39 pm
The files disclosed that the CIA and MI5 had worked closely with the Gaddafi regime, participating in the torture and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects – sadly, an unsurprising revelation. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 7:51 am
The history of Watergate is now well known, but to this we may add the efforts of The New York Times and The Washington Post to uncover torture, extraordinary rendition, and — belatedly — warrantless electronic surveillance under the Bush Administration. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 6:02 am
Show NotesTotal Running Time 35:44 1:06 Jacob Kaufman and Omar Ha-Redeye introduce themselves. 1:17 Jacob notices different opening music for this episode of Law is Cool, and Omar explains it's a sound clip from a performance by Rich Droste of the London War Resisters Support Group. 1:47 Jacob, who is seeing the film for the second time, discusses The Dark Knight. 2:14 Omar raises some of the criticisms of the film, such as its promotion of vigilantism. 2:17 Jacob raises an article by Spencer… [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 12:22 pm
With all the deserved condemnation heaped on the Bush Administration for its expansion of Executive branch powers in the service of the War on Terror, its warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, it is striking how muted the criticism is of Obama. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 4:53 pm
It’s an extraordinary and uncanny audio resemblance. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 1:16 pm
The restrictions in this bill could have--were this regime in place—denied the American public the revelations of the Pentagon Papers; the Watergate scandal; and the crimes of torture, extraordinary rendition, and secret prisons, as well as NSA warrantless wiretapping, post 9/11. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 8:41 pm
As Orfeo, Stephanie Blythe is a force of nature--in company with, if not quite as extraordinary as, the great Joan Sutherland herself. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 4:15 am
But they stopped doing that, and yet the assault against the courthouse that began before the feds showed up and continue after the extraordinary rendition was over. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 7:16 am
United States), which involves the [Defense] Department’s “invocation of the state secrets privilege,” “one to watch” insofar as it could indicate how the Court might deal with other, more sweeping assertions of the privilege – in, for example, cases involving allegations of extraordinary renditions and torture. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 7:40 am
" The Jackson problem is posed effectively by Jack Goldsmith in his book, The Terror Presidency, and it is basically this: If we criticize John Yoo and Jay Bybee for distorting and manipulating the law to purportedly authorize conduct like torture, extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, and warrantless wiretapping, then what do we think about Attorney General Robert Jackson's legal advice to FDR, permitting the transfer of destroyers to Britain, in… [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 12:58 pm
The lawsuit alleges that flight support contractor Jeppesen Dataplan helped the CIA fly five non-U.S. citizens to foreign countries whose governments tortured and imprisoned the men, a legally dubious program known within the U.S. government as “extraordinary rendition”. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 5:00 am
The book reads like a thriller but is so meticulous and well-researched that it could serve as a charge-sheet for prosecuting America’s torturers. 2) Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar By: Monia Mazigh Summary: Monia Mazigh tells the story of how her husband, Canadian citizen Maher Arar , was kidnapped at JFK airport in New York by US officials and sent to Syria to be tortured, as part of the US “extraordinary rendition” program. [read post]
