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Tonight, Laura Ingraham sat in for Bill O'Reilly, and Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe was on to discuss Gitmo lawyers defending the detainees. Apparently they're part of something called the "John Adams Project," which is in and of itself, ludicrous. What's at play here is the fact some of these detainee Gitmo defense attorneys supplied the detainees photos of CIA operatives, sketches and dra More..wings of Gitmo and the prison layout, and paparazzi-like photos of CIA officers at various locations, including their homes. I agree with Laura and Liz both that Eric Holder's Dept. of Justice should be required to disclose the names of the lawyers who formerly worked for the defense of the detainees, yet now are working in the DOJ and will now be involved in the prosecution of these detainees, should they ever be brought to American soil. This cannot stand.
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The US government is banning the media from taking photos and videos in Afghanistan as the Obama administration bans the release of photos showing detainee torture. Is the government concerned about the privacy of soldiers and detainees? Or is it a strategy to keep morale up at home? Priya Sridhar talks with Michael MacLeod Ball from the ACLU. ... "priya sridhar" Michael MacLeod Ball
The US government is banning the media from taking photos and videos in Afghanistan as the Obama administration bans the release of photos showing detainee torture. Is the government concerned about the privacy of soldiers and detainees? Or is it a strategy to keep morale up at home? Priya Sridhar talks with Michael macleod Ball from the ACLU.
Pelosi still trying to get detainee pictures released. I'm so tired of people that condemn Fox because they feel that the media should have 100% bias to the left like Venezuela. Usually the best they can come up with is childish name calling. In Russia where Putin controlled the media, he had an 80% approval rating. It makes you wonder if people can think for themselves. I listened to that liberal bias for 50 years and never did buy off on it. Ive never groked the logic that America was so ...
NEW YORK A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of "rape and murder" and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said they included acts that were "blatantly sadistic." US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in ...
Double the Peace Corps (stalled), Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials (dropped), FISA, habeas corpus, the prosecution of war criminals, blocking networks from seeing the White House visitors list, detainee photos, preventive detention, the support of state secrets law, supporting DOMA, and avoiding don't ask, don't tell. Which are particularly distasteful when you reflect that its a black man denying another minority equal rights, and all this is just ...
AmericasNewsToday.Com The ACLU, The New York Times Betray Our American Heroes—Gitmo Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos
AmericasNewsToday.Com Need More Proof the ACLU is a Terrorist Organization?—Gitmo Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos
PAKISTANI security forces have captured top Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar, weeks after the reported death of his boss, feared warlord Baitullah Mehsud, military officials said today. The bearded and heavy-set Omar, a leading spokesman for the militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by a local militia yesterday in the northwest tribal district of Mohmand, officials said. "A very, very important militant has been arrested," said Major Fazal Ur Rehman, head of the military's media cell, declining to give the militant's identity ahead of a news conference in Mohmand. But government, military and security officials confirmed the detainee was Omar, and photos of the militant in detention were widely circulated. Omar - a former perfume seller who joined Taliban ranks as a fighter in 2004 - was a close aide of Mehsud, who Washington has accused of being "a key al-Qaeda facilitator" in Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border. Javed Ali Khan, a local government official in Mohmand, said a tribal militia picked up Omar and two associates as they travelled in a car late Monday and handed them over to security forces. Residents and officials in the area said the TTP spokesman's real name was Sayed Mohammad, and Maulvi Omar was his guerrilla name. Believed to be about 40 years old, Omar rose to become the insurgents' spokesman in 2007 - the same year Mehsud took over as top Taliban commander after one-legged former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abdullah Mehsud ...
Barack Obama has formally requested that the US Supreme Court block the release of unseen photographs showing detainee abuse. He also sent a letter to two US Senators reassuring them that the pictures would not see the light of day. US Generals and Officials say that releasing those photographs would endanger troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly harm US Civilians as well. The American Civil Liberties Union, however, is demanding that these photographs be made public and they are ...
The Obama Administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the public release of detainee abuse photos. The Justice Department just filed a petition asking the court to overturn an appeals court decision requiring the Pentagon to disclose the photos, which depict alleged abuse of prisoners in US military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
the photos, which depict abuse of prisoners in US military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. In September 2008, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld a district court decision requiring the photos to be released. "The appeals court soundly rejected all of the government's arguments for withholding the photos, and it's unfortunate that the government has chosen to contest that decision," Amrit Singh, an ACLU attorney, said in a statement e-mailed to reporters ...
French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed on Monday that the French embassy in Tehran was ready to shelter Iranian protesters fleeing the police during the post-election unrest. If protestors being chased had sought refuge in the French embassy the instruction was to open the door. This is a European order. This is in our democratic tradition, said Kouchner in an interview with the French daily newspaper Le Parisien. The admission came after a dual nationality employee from the embassys cultural section, Nazak Afshar, was accused of acting against Irans national security at a revolutionary court in Tehran on Saturday. According to Irans official IRNA news agency, Afshar confessed that French embassy employees had been instructed to give refuge to protesters in case of a clash with police in front of the missions compound, fuelling Tehrans suspicion that foreign powers were behind the post-election unrest. Foreigners charged with spying Iran has put around 110 people in the dock, including prominent Iranian reformists and two employees of foreign embassies, as well as one French national. French lecturer Clotilde Reiss was arrested on July 1 as she was about to catch a flight to Beirut. She was later charged with spying and inciting riots after admitting that she took part in the protests at Isfahan, emailed photos to friends, and sent a report to the French embassy. Clotilde Reiss case has sparked outrage in France, and Kouchner has repeatedly called for the ...
The US House of Representatives on July 9 voted almost unanimously to rebuke President Barack Obama over his June 24 signing statement openly declaring that he could ignore five provisions of the law he was signing. www.thenewamerican.com HR 2346 This bill would provide $106 billion for fiscal year 2009 to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also includes a smattering of other provisions, including funding for the International Monetary Fund, a requirement that none of the money appropriated by the bill is spent on moving Guantanamo detainees to the US and a Lieberman-Graham sponsored ban on the release of photos depicting detainee torture even if their disclosure is required by the Freedom of Information Act. Obama's signing statement: However, provisions of this bill within sections 1110 to 1112 of title XI, and sections 1403 and 1404 of title XIV, would interfere with my constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations by directing the Executive to take certain positions in negotiations or discussions with international organizations and foreign governments, or by requiring consultation with the Congress prior to such negotiations or discussions. I will not treat these provisions as limiting my ability to engage in foreign diplomacy or negotiations. Section 1404 of Title XIV would prevent our money being loaned to governments that sponsor terrorism. The entire text of the Bill can be viewed here: www.govtrack.us
Jon Powers addresses what the Obama administration is doing to prevent torture and detainee abuse, while explaining why the release of new photos of such abuse will only harm troops in the field, not help redress mistakes of the past.
(Via CSPANJunkie, crooksandliars.com ) Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed outrage to his combatant commanders after seeing some of the detainee abuse photos now under wraps by the Obama administration, according to a highly sensitive memo obtained Wednesday by FOX News. ... "Admiral Mike Mullen" detainees photos outrage "crooks and liars" "fox news"
www.foxnews.com Griffin reports that Admiral Mike Mullen has seen the detainee abuse photos
Pinoy Weekly Online presents Elizabeth Principe, political detainee, peace consultant and columnist for PW Online. Principe was abducted in Quezon City in 2007 and surfaced by military and police officials three days later. A consultant in the peace negotiations of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines with the Arroyo government, Principe was psychologically tortured and held incommunicado, before being surfaced by state agents and accused of conspiring with military rebels in the ...
Pinoy Weekly Online presents Elizabeth Principe, political detainee, peace consultant and columnist for PW Online. Principe was abducted in Quezon City in 2007 and surfaced by military and police officials three days later. A consultant in the peace negotiations of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines with the Arroyo government, Principe was psychologically tortured and held incommunicado, before being surfaced by state agents and accused of conspiring with military rebels in the ...
Human rights organizations have told independently confirming accounts of a highly consistent practice of sexual torture at US-held prisons, including having their genitals slashed with razors; electrodes placed on genitals; and being told US military would find and rape their mothers. Is systemic sex crime practiced by the US in a consequence of the lawlessness of `the war on terror surprising to those of us who work on issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable: when you ...
Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp. The evidence is said to consist of a photograph of the British resident, taken after he was severely beaten by guards at the US navy base.
Mike criticizes House Leadership for not including Detainee Photo Amendment in the NDAA.
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington Video discusses three major issues: the increasing concern with the cost of health care reform, President Obamas lack of support for ballistic missile defense, and pushing back the American Civil Liberties Union with regard to photos depicting detainee abuse.
06-17-09 Boehner comments on detainee abuse photos during Spending Bill
Rep. Conaway (R-TX-11) presents and withdrawls his Detainee Photo Amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act in the House Armed Services Committee.
international security, and we'll support it." Republicans in turn accused Democrats of endangering US forces by stripping a Senate amendment that would bar the release of photos of purported abuse of detainees by US military and security forces, as well as a provision to block the transfer of terrorism-suspect detainees from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the US "When this House allows for that transfer, that says we are willing to take on untold risk at the expense of ...
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Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX-11) speaks on the House Floor about the Military Detainee Photo legislation.
Obama will keep promise to block detainee abuse photos
The Hill's Erica Wisniewski takes a look at the week ahead on Capitol Hill.
Representatives Hoyer and Cantor debated several contentious pieces of legislation and the schedule for consideration by the House. Subjects included cap-and-trade, defense funding, release of detainee treatment photos, and funding for the IMF. www.c-spanarchives.org
Senator Thune Discusses Detainee Photos with Megyn Kelly on Fox News Americas Newsroom with Bill Hemmer & Megyn Kelly
In an interview on fox's Happening Now, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed health care reform & Dem support for releasing detainee photos that would put American troops in danger.
In an interview on FOX's Happening Now, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed health care reform & Dem support for releasing detainee photos that would put American troops in danger. ... 06 12 09 Fox
A picture is worth a thousand words; we find out why the Obama administration has reversed its decision to release photos of detainee abuse.
A picture is worth a thousand words; we find out why the Obama administration has reversed its decision to release photos of detainee abuse. ... dawnnews counter spin zarrar khuhro abu gharaib prisoner abuse detainees guantanamo bay photos
A picture is worth a thousand words; we find out why the Obama administration has reversed its decision to release photos of detainee abuse.
More Info @ Dprogram.net: dprogram.net Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor who now hosts a news magazine on cable channel hdnet, has done a documentary on a former Guantanamo prisoner who says he was tortured for years before being released two weeks ago. Lakhdar Boumediene has charged that he was interrogated for sixteen straight nights in 2003 and that he was force-fed through a nasal tube for over two years after he went on a hunger strike. He also described to Rathers interviewer how he was made to run with shackles on his legs until they were bloody in order to soften him up.
Just as President Barack Obama's Middle East tour is starting, a scandal is brewing regarding photos of detainees being abused in Iraqi jails. The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for a federal court appeal on the Obama administration's decision not to release the pictures which, some reports claim, show sexually explicit acts, including rape.
Cheney May 29-2009- -detainees sodomized and raped----- May 29, 2009 "Huffington Post" -- The Telegraph of London broke the news - because the US press is in a drugged stupor -- that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. The paper claims the photos also show anal rape of prisoners with foreign objects such as wires and lightsticks. Major General ...
Cheney May 29-2009- -detainees sodomized and raped----- May 29, 2009 "Huffington Post" -- The Telegraph of London broke the news - because the US press is in a drugged stupor -- that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. The paper claims the photos also show anal rape of prisoners with foreign objects such as wires and lightsticks. Major General Antonio Taguba calls the images `horrific' and `indecent' (but absurdly agrees that Obama should not release them - proving once again that the definition of hypocrisy is the assertion that the truth is in poor taste). informationclearinghouse.info
US press is in a drugged stupor -- that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. The paper claims the photos also show anal rape of prisoners with foreign objects such as wires and lightsticks. Major General Antonio Taguba calls the images `horrific' and `indecent' (but absurdly agrees that Obama should not release them - proving once again that ...
Robert Gibbs took exception to a Telegraph report that suggested detainee abuse photos
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts. Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted ...
detainee torture and abuse = WAR CRIMES.................. By May 28th, the US was going to release 2000 new photos of detainee torture and abuse between 2001-2006. However, that order was reversed by President Obama. We are planning non-violent civil resistance, programs, film showings, etc. in communities around the country all demanding prosecution of the Bush era war criminals and highlighting the relationship between the illegitimate occupations and torture in pursuing the "war on terror ...
05-19-09 CNN - Obama faces criticism for not releasing abuse photos
05-19-09 CNN - In a classic appeal to popularity fallacy, CNN shows that it doesn't matter what a judge rules in a case on the release of detainee abuse photos, lets just appeal to the popularity for the verdict.
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