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March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Senate Debates Indefinite Detentions
3/05/10 Malveaux, CNN, White House considers military trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Fisher, TruthOut, DoD Releases Records of Illegal Surveillance
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Military, Homeland Security, Spies on Planned Parenthood, Other Domestic Groups
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Fischer, IPS, Senate Torture Probe Uncovers Missing Emails
February 26, 2010
2/26/10 Umansky, ProPublica, DOJ Report on Waterboarding Memos in Our Document Viewer
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Casciani, BBC, Fresh legal challenge over MI5 torture guidance
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 Fisher, IPS, U.S.: Gov't Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking
2/22/10 Traynor, Guardian, Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Lichtblau & Shane, NYT, Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Tencer, Raw Story, Ruling Means Gitmo Detainees Have No Legal Protection: Rights Group
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Gerstein, Politico, Lindsey Graham: White House Mulling Indefinite Detention
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 Worthington, PublicRecord, Torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo: Shaker Aamer's Lawyers Speak
2/12/10 Kaye, Public Record, Release the 42 CIA Documents on Binyam Mohamed's Brutal Torture
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 Ross, PublicRecord, The Government's Secret Hit List
2/11/10 Daniel, TruthOut Bagram, Obama's Secret Penal Colony
February 5, 2010
2/05/10 Fisher, IPS, Legal Experts Slam 'Targeted Killings' of US Citizens
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 Mazelis, WSWS, Harper's Magazine exposes Guantanamo cover-up
1/26/10 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Report Calls for Office of 'Strategic Deception'
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 BBC, Indefinite Guantanamo detention plans condemned
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Finn, WP, Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely
1/22/10 Fisher, PublicRecord, Obama Administration Continues To Withhold Vital Information About Bagram Detainees
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Reuters, FBI broke law in phone searches: report
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Grimm, FiredogLake, CIA Cable 'Granting Permission' to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces
1/16/10 BBC, US releases names of prisoners at Bagram, Afghanistan
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Worthington, AlterNet, Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 Rothchild, Progressive, A Horrendous Decision on Habeas Corpus
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Kaye, Public Record, Under Auspices of the Army Field Manual, Ongoing Torture Interrogations Continue at Guantanamo
1/08/10 Scahill, Nation, Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Bumiller, NYT, Many Ex-Detainees Said to Be Engaged in Terror
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 Ridgeway, MoJo, Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanner Boom?
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Labott, CNN, U.S. lowers threshold for inclusion on no-fly lists
1/05/10 BBC, Airport body scanners to get code of conduct
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Travis, Guardian, New scanners break child porn laws
January 1, 2010
1/01/10 Ahlers, CNN, TSA withdraws subpoenas of travel bloggers
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Hedges, TruthDig, One Day We'll All Be Terrorists
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Savage, NYT, U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House Detainees
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 Doward, Guardian, Briton Mohammed Ezzouek was held in Somalia as an al-Qaida suspect: his interrogators were British
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 Holland, AlterNet, Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism Fantasy; Right-Wingers Act Like it's 9/11 All Over Again
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Jennings, ComputerWorld, Did Sprint violate customer privacy 8 million times?
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Zetter, Wired, Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Kocher, Lexington Herald, Winchester woman unknowingly funded terrorist group, police say
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Drogin, LAT, Terrorism probe casts scrutiny on Minneapolis' Somali immigrant enclave
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Lewis, Guardian, Secret files show UK courts were misled over 9/11 suspect Lotfi Raissi
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Lawsuit: FBI Threatened to Torture U.S. Citizen Kidnapped By Agency
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Examiner, CIA fails in attempt to link Ft. Hood shooter to al Qaeda, Iran exhales
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Kaye, Deep Journal, 'Behavior detection' officers covertly watch travelers' conduct
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Al Jazeera, US blocks 'Syria torture' lawsuit
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Controversial Patriot Act Provisions Appears Set For Reauthorization
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Bunkley, NYT, F.B.I. Raid Kills Islamic Group Leader in Michigan
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Johnson, Telegraph, Peaceful Protesters Included on Police Database of 'Domestic Extremists'
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 Lyall, NYT, Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public
October 21, 2009
10/21/09 Margasak, AP, House Bill Would Make Changes in Patriot Act
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Admiral: I can empty Guantánamo camps in 10 days
10/20/09 Sullivan, Reuters, Congress agrees on moving Guantanamo inmates
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 AFP, US judge upholds censoring CIA prisoner testimony
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Chomsky Banned in Guantanamo
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Fadel, McClatchy, Muslims in U.S. feel unfairly implicated in the war on terror
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 BBC, FBI payout for Egyptian over 9/11
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Savage, Chicago Tribune, Patriot Act May Get Renamed, but With a Few Changes
9/23/09 Baker, NYT, Obama to Use Current Law to Support Detentions
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 Goodman, ITT, Sold to the United States for Cash
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Savage, NYT, Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 Leopold, TruthOut, Did Bush Continue to Secretly Operate Total Information Awareness?
9/18/09 AFP, US Senators Target Bush-Era Surveillance Laws
9/18/09 Martin, WSWS, Obama administration to seek extension of Patriot Act spy powers
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 Vicini & Pelofsky, Reuters, U.S. says seeking 60-day delay in Guantanamo trials
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama Administration Moves to Keep Terror Watch-List Data Strictly Hush-Hush
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Some Guantanamo Prisoners Fight Release
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Smith, NYT, U.S. Tried to Soften Treaty on Detainees
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Bin Laden aide's Guantanamo conviction appealed
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Finn et al, WP, How a Detainee Became An Asset
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Page, Times/UK, Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 When I Was Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo'
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Army judge: 9/11 lawyers can't see CIA 'black sites'
8/25/09 Cross, Guardian, CCTV: the worst of all possible worlds
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 ACLU, ACLU Obtains Detailed Official Record Of CIA Torture Program (Document Links)
8/24/09 LAT, Obama backs setting up new interrogation unit
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 Lee, ProPublica, More at Stake in Gitmo Court Orders Than Detainees' Fates
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantanamo
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Bartosiewicz, MoJo, A Thousand Little Gitmos
August 15, 2009
9/15/09 Kutzelben, IPS, US Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Egelko, SF Chron, US Battling CIA Rendition Case in Three Courts
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Worthington, Public Record, Attorney: Military Commissions "A Catastrophic Failure"
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Lee, ProPublica, Tracking Obama's Struggles to Defend Gitmo Detentions
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Lee, ProPublica, New Gitmo Decision Offers Unusual Insight Into Weakness of Government Evidence
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Sharrock, MoJo, First, Do Harm Detainees
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Reuters, U.S. judge orders Guantanamo prisoner released
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Taylor, McClatchy, Why are U.S.-allied refugees still branded as 'terrorists?'
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Trang, New America Media, Secret Bush-Era Prisons Continue
7/24/09 Taylor, McClatchy, U.S. admits it has no case against teen held at Guantanamo
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 BBC, US terror policy report delayed
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Was Dr. David Kelly a Target of Dick Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?
July 19, 2009
7/19/09 Warrick & Finn, WP, Interviews Offer More Nuanced Look At Roles of CIA Contractors, Concerns Of Officials During Interrogations
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 Chung, McClatchy, Uighur detainees: U.S. helped Chinese interrogate us
7/16/09 Hirsch, Guardian, Secret evidence imperils the core values of British justice
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Meeropol, AlterNet, The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: The Most Dangerous Domestic Terror Law You've Never Heard Of
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Johnson, WP, Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 Cobain, Guardian, Further evidence that Pakistan tortured suspects for Britain
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Obama Slides Further Down Bush's Hill on Indefinite Detention
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Binyam Mohamed Launches Legal Fight to Stop US Destroying Torture Images
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Hess & Pickler, AP, Documents Describe Chaos of Gitmo's Early Months
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Gerstein, Politico, Bush Appointees Buck Barack Obama on Terror Policies
6/30/09 Ito, Blog of Rights, Tortured to Death: New Details On Detainee Abuse Prove Bush Officials Are (Literally) Getting Away With Murder
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 BBC, Sudanese 'suspect' back in Canada
June 27, 2009
6/27/09 Linzer & Finn, WP, White House Weighs Order on Detention
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Meserve & Taylor, CNN, Passenger says TSA agents harassed him
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Al Jazeera, US transfers Guantanamo detainees
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 Corn, MoJo, Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney?
6/10/09 Watts, Guardian, Palau to resettle 17 Guantanamo detainees
6/10/09 Oakland Trib, Defense Department sees protests as terrorism
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Reuters, White House mulls Guantanamo guilty pleas: report
6/05/09 Ahlers, CNN, Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 McFadden, AP, Military: Detainee who died not on hunger strike
6/03/09 Kane & Warrick, WP, Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 AFP, US Must Release Guantanamo Evidence: Judge
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 Ward, Wa. Independent, Cheney: Death Only Option for Some Detainees if Gitmo Closed
6/01/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Identity of Men on CIA Rendition Flights to British Island Revealed
May 31, 2009
5/31/09 Soal & Cobain, Guardian, British agents would have had ministers' OK for collusion in torture - ex-MI6 chief
5/31/09 Honan, Reuters, Informant's role questioned in U.S. security probes
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Hamby, CNN, Bush defends interrogation program in Michigan speech
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 CNN, Petraeus says releasing detainee photos would be risky
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Worthington, Guardian, Outsourcing torture to foreign climes
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Feingold, Progressive, Feingold to Obama: Preventing Detention "Likely Unconstitutional."
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Talev & Landay, McClatchy, Obama outlines plans for Guantanamo detainees
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 Bumiller, NYT, 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Petroski, Des Moine Register, FBI Infiltrated Iowa Anti-War Group Before GOP Convention
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 P2PNet, US in Police State Top 10
5/15/09 Bright, CSM, Obama to relaunch military tribunals for terror suspects
May 14, 2009
5/14/09 Worthington, CommonDreams, Judge Condemns 'Mosaic' of Guantanamo Intelligence and Unreliable Witnesses
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 Goldstein, CSM, Diplomatic memos reveal Chinese effort to block Guantanamo prisoner's asylum bid
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Finn, WP, Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 LAT, FBI terrorist watch list errors pose security risk, Justice Dept. report says
5/07/09 Lee, ProPublica, Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases
5/07/09 Fisher, IPS, POLITICS-US: Unwieldy Terror Watchlist Hits a Million
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Reid, Times, Abu Ghraib Prison Guards: We Were Scapegoats for the Bush Administration
5/02/09 Glaberson, NYT, US May Revive Guantanamo Military Courts
5/02/09 Taylor, McClatchy, U.S. allies losing asylum bids over definition of 'terrorist'
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Marquand, CSM, Spanish judge opens Guantánamo investigation
4/30/09 Frieden, CNN, Former 'enemy combatant' pleads guilty
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Stack, CSM, US court allows rendition lawsuit against CIA contractor
April 25, 2009
4/24/09 Goldstein, CSM, Freed from Guantanamo, a Uighur clings to asylum dreams in Sweden
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Sharrock, MoJo, MoJo Video: Inside Abu Ghraib Levels 1, 4, and 5
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Linzer, ProPublica, Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 Weaver, Guardian, CIA Waterboarded al-Qaida Suspects 266 Times
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Linzer, MoJo, Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner
4/17/09 Kaye, AlterNet, The Torture Memos Are Not Just Sick, They're Full of Lies: A Closer Look at the Bybee Memo
4/17/09 Mazzetti & Shane, NYT, Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the CIA
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Reuters, Bush-era memo saw no-long term waterboarding harm
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 Lichtblau & Risen, NYT, Officials Say US Wiretaps Exceeded Law
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Will Obama Prosecute the Captured Somali 'Pirate' in a US Court?
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 IntelDaily, ICRC sheds light on CIA medics role in Gitmo torture
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Warrick & Tate, WP, Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment 'Inhuman'
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 Reuters, U.S. military removes lawyer from Guantanamo case
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 BBC, Foreign detainees 'have US right'
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Leopold, TruthOut, DOJ Watchdog "Revising" Critical Report on John Yoo's Legal Work on Torture
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Finn & Warrick, Seattle Times, Torture did not yield significant leads, officials say
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Norton-Taylor & Cobain, Guardian, Torture victim Binyam Mohamed: don't scapegoat MI5 officer
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Fisher, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Obama Faces Spate of "Terror War" Lawsuits
3/26/09 Noble, KC.com, Missouri Highway Patrol retracts controversial report on militia activity
3/26/09 DW, Investigator: NATO Countries Knew About Secret CIA Flights
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, CIA Says Agency Has 3,000 Documents Related to Videotaped Torture
3/23/09 BBC, Call to scrap 'illegal databases'
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Shadid, WP, In Iraq, Chaos Feared as U.S. Closes Prison
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 McLaughlin, CNN, FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques, Muslim groups say
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Selsky, Yahoo, Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 BBC, UK to set out anti-torture rules
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Why Obama's New Definition of Terrorists Is a Lot Like the Old One
3/17/09 Cobain, Guardian, FCO admits silence over torture victims
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Adams, CSM, Red Cross report says detainees at CIA 'black sites' were tortured
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 AP, U.S. Abandons Term for Detainees but Keeps Policy
3/13/09 BBC, US drops 'enemy combatant' term
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 Al Jazeera, Rome 'CIA rendition' case suspended
3/12/09 Lewis, ITT, Closing America's Torture Chambers
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Former Accused Iraqi Agent Susan Lindauer, Secret Charges and The Patriot Act in Action
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Sell, McClatchy, UN Report Says US Rendition Policy Broke International Law
3/10/09 Tarcyzniski, IPS, Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Evitar, Wa. Independent, CIA Confirms 12 Destroyed Videotapes Depicted "Enhanced Interrogation Methods"
3/06/09 Liptak, NYT, Justices Erase Ruling That Allowed Detention
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Greenberg, TomDispatch, Obama's Guantanamo?: Bush's Living Legacy at Bagram Prison
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Chart: Obama Tracks Bush on National Security Cases
3/03/09 Greenberg, MoJo, The Missing Prison
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Erlanger, NYT, U.N. Official Faults Evidence and Foreign States Linked to Guantánamo Interrogations
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 BBC, US detainee 'on terror charges'
February 26, 2009
2/26/09 Al Jazeera, UK admits to Iraq rendition case
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 Weaver, ProPublica, Obama Administration on Detention Policy: What He Said
2/23/09 Stone, IntelDaily, FBI Arrests Four Animal Rights Activists, Claims "Terrorism"
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 BBC, 'No US rights' for Bagram inmates
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Al Jazeera, US expands prison in Afghanistan
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 McInnis, Reuters, U.S. "war on terror" eroded rights worldwide: experts
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 Porter, Guardian, The horror of the ID card system
2/04/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, US threats mean evidence of British resident's Guantanamo torture must stay secret, judges rule
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Utterly Innocent At Guantanamo
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Finn, WP, Guantanamo Judge Denies Obama's Request for Delay
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Swann, BBC, Brother campaigns for 'enemy combatant'
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 Leopold, IntelDaily, Warrentless Wiretaps Program Originated From DOJ Legal Memos
January 16, 2009
1/17/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Feds Drop Case Against Accused Iraqi Agent
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Miller, Fox, NYPD Eyes Disrupting Cell Phones in Event of Terrorist Attack
January 7, 2009
12/23/08 Hentoff, Village Voice, Obama's Black Widow
January 5, 2009
1/05/09 Kravetz, Wired, Judge: 'Sufficient Facts' Exist That U.S. Spied on Islamic Charity Lawyers
1/05/09 Perlez et al, NYT, Ex-Detainee of U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Foley & McDonald, NYT, Nations Wary of Taking in Detainees