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21 May 2009, 9:34 am
Ed. note: Welcome to the latest installment of "Notes from the Breadline," a column by a laid-off lawyer in New York. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 5:30 am
Niro Professor of Law at DePaul University, has accomplished something quite extraordinary. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 3:14 pm
Ryan continues with the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation (RDI) program, “one of the major themes of this case,” reminding the judge about the ten-paragraph construct from the Nashiri case proposed by Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins, that Judge Pohl adopted. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 6:30 am
Half measures, in Tushnet’s rendition of the Court’s strategy, preserve the Court’s legitimacy for progressives while providing fodder for the armies of reaction. [read post]
2 Aug 2014, 9:39 am
And that’s the reason why, after I took office, one of the first things I did was to ban some of the extraordinary interrogation techniques that are the subject of that report. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 11:29 pm
As an artist, I personally made frequent references to similarities to policies of the Bush administration and those of the Nazi Party.The fundamental difference is that the left’s opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the constitutional desecration wrought by the Patriot Act, eavesdropping and spying outside the purview of FICA courts, black sites conducting torture on foreign soil, the politicization of the Department of Justice, extraordinary rendition and a host… [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 7:38 am
Was Robertson truly the sole mastermind behind the Band's extraordinary success? [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 5:53 am
The United States built a military base there, which it later used for its program of rendition and interrogation. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:55 pm
There was no explicit mention of extraordinary rendition and what If any role the UK has had in that in the last year. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 11:47 am
But a federal appeals court on Tuesday, at least temporarily, rejected that assertion in a legal challenge to what is known as an “extraordinary rendition” kidnapping pr [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am
We can all recite the litany: Guantanamo, waterboarding and extraordinary rendition; the Patriot Act and wiretapping; mushroom clouds and yellow cake; war casualties and massive debt. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 6:06 pm
A close reading within an historical context - keeping especially in mind the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Presidential Executive Orders, pursuant to which the government has engaged in massive surveillance of its own citizens, as well as detentions, extraordinary renditions, assassinations, and torture - leads me to the following conclusions: This is a "Thought… [read post]
14 Jun 2009, 9:08 pm
Their claims, for example, that Jeppesen acted with reckless disregard for whether the passengers it helped transport would be tortured by agents of the United States, Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan, do not necessarily require establishing that the United States operated an extraordinary rendition program, much less that Jeppesen entered into a secret agreement with the government to assist in such a program. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 12:07 pm
Its position is that only some—and certainly not all—of the facts regarding the United States’ rendition, detention, and interrogation (“RDI”) program have been declassified. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 11:55 am
Read in conjunction with the third executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the government will now have to decide what to do with these prisoners-- whether to release them, try them in the criminal process, try them by traditional courts martial, or create a new set of procedures to try them (that is because, according to the third executive order reprinted below, the Administration is not going to use the military tribunals created by the Military Commissions Act of… [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 6:41 am
Some of its respected members have been actively aiding and abetting torture at illegal detention sites set up by the Bush administration, and the leadership of the APA has actively blocked attempts by its members to ban any and all engagement with interrogation proceedings at sites like Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and the secret detention centers set up through the Administration's policy of "extraordinary rendition" ( i.e., outsourcing torture to… [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
He offered this rendition of the Republicans’ plan not to explicitly endorse their interpretation of the law but simply to tell the viewing audience what the Republicans had had in mind. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 11:59 pm
What’s gone wrong in US civil society to allow torture, an illegal war, extraordinary rendition and indefinite detention? [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am
We can all recite the litany: Guantanamo, waterboarding and extraordinary rendition; the Patriot Act and wiretapping; mushroom clouds and yellow cake; war casualties and massive debt. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 9:32 am
One can say a lot more about these (and other) cases, but perhaps the most important evidence of this theory is the Court’s refusal to review a series of lower court decisions that sidestepped claims arising out of, inter alia, the U.S. government’s alleged “extraordinary rendition” of non-citizens to countries in which they were tortured; the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program; and post-September 11 terrorism convictions, many of which feature… [read post]
