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- Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret
  Posted by theangryindian from Mcclatchydc
  WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.
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- UK apology over rendition flights
  Posted by okami from BBC News
  David Miliband has admitted two US "extraordinary rendition" flights landed on UK territory in 2002. The foreign secretary said in both cases US planes refuelled on the UK dependent territory of Diego Garcia.
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- Rigged Trials at Guantanamo
  Posted by okami from Truth Out
  The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.
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- 2 Guantanamo detainees’ cases tossed
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, marking a stunning setback to Washington's attempts to try detainees in military court.
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- Legal expert: President Bush may have ordered torture of terror suspects
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  "It seems pretty clear that they've been tortured," Turley told the AP, "and that the president knew they were being tortured, and may have even ordered their torture through techniques like water boarding."
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- Former Detainees Argue for Right to Sue Rumsfeld Over Torture
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  This is going to be big: "The hearing Friday, before Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan in Federal District Court in Washington, was the first time a federal court had considered whether top administration officials could be liable for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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- C.I.A. Tells of Bush’s Directive on the Handling of Detainees
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The contents of the documents were not revealed, but one of them is “a directive signed by President Bush granting the C.I.A. the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and outlining interrogation methods that may be used against detainees,” the A.C.L.U. said, based on its review of published accounts.
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Jeff comments on:
2 Guantanamo detainees’ cases tossed
The entire dysfunctional terror war is reaching its epoch.
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7:54 pm 6/04/07

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okami
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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognized Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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