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- Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution
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  More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system really is the total flop it has seemed to be so far.
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- Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare
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  “Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?”
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- RAND | News Release | United States Lacks the Capability to Counter Insurgency in the Muslim World
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  Recognizing that the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be the last of their kind, a new RAND Corporation study issued today finds that U.S. capabilities to meet the threat of Islamist insurgencies are seriously deficient and out of balance.
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- CIA confirms rendition flights to Brits
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  WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or soil.
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- OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present
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  Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The
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- Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations
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  The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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- AP confirms secret camp inside Gitmo
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded - a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret.
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Damianmann comments on:
Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk

I think it’s time to say no to this. If we supported Obama to bring about change, then we have to insist that’s what he delivers

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5:08 pm 11/18/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
ACLU Sues Arpaio Over Racial Profiling

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/07/17/20080717profiling0717.html
another article with more evidence

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10:07 am 7/17/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
ACLU Sues Arpaio Over Racial Profiling

“Well, you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it’s an honor, right? It means we’re doing something,” Arpaio

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9:59 am 7/17/08
socean comments on:
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report

I think we should waterboard all the "principals" until they confess.

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3:12 pm 4/12/08
Jeff comments on:
George W Bush Sewage Plant In S.F., With Your HELP

It’s a great idea. Let’s hope it passes.

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10:25 am 4/07/08
Jeff comments on:
George W Bush Sewage Plant In S.F., With Your HELP

It’s a great idea. Let’s hope it passes.

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10:25 am 4/07/08
Damianmann comments on:
Why Not Impeachment?

They’re trying to play it safe and not cause any division

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3:15 pm 1/11/08

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