Thursday, February 12, 2009

CURRENT items related to Rights & The Rule of Law (mostly US, Canada & Britain)

Most of the following items are from The Bill of Rights Defense Committee which is way on top as far as sites which look daily at what's going down up or staying the same with the US Bill of Rights/Constitution and related...I have added several more from other sources right after Marjorie Cohn's urgent article in the post above and after the following from The BORDC - unless otherwise indicated, find the following by going:

here

Any older items which may not still be in the bordc dot org archives can be easily looked-up on a search engine...

Feb 11, 2009, Globe and Mail (Canada), Opposition urges Khadr's return

Feb 11, 2009, The Independent (UK), Inside Guantanamo: the diary of Binyam Mohamed

Feb 11, 2009, Wayne Madsen, Online Journal, NSA's meta-data email surveillance program exposed

Feb 11, 2009, Jordan Weissmann, BLT: Blog of Legal Times, Federal Judge Says Courts Cannot Rule On Detainee Treatment

Feb 10, 2009, Peter Finn, Washington Post, Justice Dept. Uses 'State Secrets' Defense

Feb 10, 2009, Safiya Boucaud, Jurist, DOJ urges court not to define 'enemy combatant'

Feb 10, 2009, Marjorie Cohn, Jurist, A Call to End All Renditions

2/10, Robert Mackey, New York Times, Hunger Strikes Continue at Guantánamo

2/10, The Atlantic, The Binyam Mohamed Case

2/10, United Press International, ACLU: Obama now accountable for rendition

2/10, Julian E. Barnes and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Miranda rule may hamper detainee trials

2/10, Julie Farby, All Headline News, Leahy Proposes "Truth Commission" To Investigate Bush Administration

2/10, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Time Is Running Out

2/9, Jonathan Horowitz, Jurist, Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy

2/9, Peter Goldsmith, Jurist, Europe must help US close Guantanamo: UK ex-AG Goldsmith

Unless otherwise indicated, find the items above by going:
here or by search engine

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