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- Detainee Memo Created Divide in White House
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Rumsfeld, Cheney and his allies fought against more moderate White House operatives to get what now has passed Congress as the Terrorist Detainee Bill.
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- 12 Senate Democrats help pass Bush detainee bill
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  They are: Tom Carper (DE), Tim Johnson (SD), Mary Landrieu (LA), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Joe Lieberman (CT), Bob Menendez (NJ), Bill Nelson (FL), Ben Nelson (NE), Mark Pryor (AR), Jay Rockefeller (WV), Ken Salazar (CO), and Debbie Stabenow (MI)
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- "Everything we don't believe in"
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  In a letter sent to members of Congress this week, 609 law professors offered: "Taken together, the bill’s provisions rewrite American law to evade the fundamental principles of separation of powers, due process, habeas corpus, fair trials, and the rule of law, principles that, together, prohibit state-sanctioned violence."
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- Rushing Off a Cliff
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  The New York Times rightly rips the cynical and un-American terrorist detention bill nearing passage in the Senate.
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- Torture is bad, "Mmmmkay"?
  Posted by Billbar from Crooks and Liars
  Great post.
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- CIA Praises Deal; Harsh Techniques Would Continue
  Posted by Billbar from Blogs.abcnews
  ... in questioning certain high-value terror suspects, the CIA has used a series of six increasingly harsh interrogation techniques that begin with a slap to the face and end with a procedure called water boarding, in which a prisoner is made to feel he is drowning. Today's congressional deal, if signed into law, would allow the CIA to continue the six techniques and to continue to run secret prisons overseas for select terror suspects.
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- The GOP enacts its drama to perfection
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  The McCain-Graham-Warner proposal concerning military commissions was, from the beginning, an awful bill that was quite radical in its own right. ... as Yale law professor Jack Balkin explained, that the military can imprison, and torture, a detainee forever without ever bringing the detainee before a military commission, and the detainee has no means at all to challenge his detention or the treatment to which he is subjected. And by masquerading as the principled opponents to a handful of the most extreme provisions in the president's proposals, these "dissident Republican senators" were depicted as the moderates in the debate, as the reasonable, serious thinkers who would carefully balance the need for strong antiterrorist measures with the need to safeguard our basic liberties.
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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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theangryindian
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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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