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guardian.co.uk: 'Racist' New York Post boycotted in chimp row 2009-02-20

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post yesterday after it published a cartoon that appeared to compare Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!

Wikinews: Israel seizes West Bank land 2009-02-20

Israel has seized 425 acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank in order to build 2,500 new settlement homes according to Israeli officials. This comes after United States ambassador George Mitchell asked for a freeze on settlement expansion which is deemed illegal under international law.

BBC News, UK: Pakistan funeral bomb 'kills 20' 2009-02-20

At least 20 people have died in a bomb explosion at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan, police say.

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Amnesty International USA: USA: Right to an effective remedy -- Administration should release Guantánamo Uighurs into the USA now 2009-02-20

Amnesty International has for weeks been urging the administration of President Barack Obama to release the Uighurs into the USA.2 The organization regrets that after a month in office, the new administration has not yet taken this step.

Amnesty International USA: USA: Obama administration must take new approach on Bagram detentions 2009-02-20

Amnesty International is urging President Barack Obama and his administration to continue its break from the USA's unlawful detention policies of recent years by ensuring that detainees held in the US airbase in Bagram in Afghanistan have access to the US courts to challenge their detentions.

MWC News: War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted 2009-02-20

John Conyers has introduced legislation to establish a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties. Sen. Patrick Leahy advocates for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...

Brad Blog: Pelosi Tells Rolling Stone She 'Thinks' She Can Foresee Prosecution of Senior Bush Admin Officials 2009-02-20

She says she can foresee a scenario in which senior members of the Administration are actually prosecuted. She says "The American people do not want wrongdoing to go unaddressed." She even said similar words to Fox "News" two days before the Inauguration.

International Middle East Media Center: The Jewish Agency transfers 10 Jews from Yemen to Israel 2009-02-20

The Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees to their place of origin is guaranteed by the International Law, Human Rights Law, the Law of Nationality and the Refugees law, but none of these laws is recognized by Israel.

Center for Research on Globalization: The CIA Beyond Redemption and Should be Terminated 2009-02-20

Thus Carter, like his successors in the George HW Bush government --- Gates, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and Colin Powell, "all bear some responsibility for the 1.8 million Afghan casualties, 2.6 million refugee ...

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Feb 20, 2009, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, Guantánamo detention: How harsh is it?

Feb 19, 2009, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, Chinese Muslims stay stranded at Guantánamo

Feb 19, 2009, John Byrne, Raw Story, Coalition of human rights groups call for panel to probe alleged torture under Bush

Feb 19, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Talk of Truth Commission Sparks Conflict

Feb 19, 2009, Public Record, Confirmation Hearing Set for DOJ Pick Who Called Bush Admin. 'Lawless'

Feb 19, 2009, Ayesha Nasir, Washington Times, Freed Gitmo detainee claims torture

Feb 18, 2009, Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post, Court Reverses Ruling Bringing 17 Detainees to U.S.

Feb 18, 2009, Associated Press, AG Holder headed to Guantanamo Bay to see facility

Feb 18, 2009, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Cobain, Guardian (UK), MI5 fed questions to CIA for interrogation

Feb 18, 2009, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, White House lawyer visiting Guantánamo prison camps

Feb 18, 2009, BBC News, Sweden accepts ex-Guantanamo man

Feb 17, 2009, George Frey, Associated Press, US Army Sergeant will testify in Iraq slay trial

Feb 17, 2009, Andrew Morgan, Jurist, Canada court rejects Guantanamo detainees' bid to access intelligence records

Feb 17, 2009, Safiya Boucaud, Jurist, Italy official says country will not accept Guantanamo detainees

Feb 17, 2009, Gabor Rona, Jurist, Obama Administration must define 'enemy combatant' consistent with traditional laws of war

Feb 17, 2009, Charlie Savage, New York Times, Obama's War on Terror May Resemble Bush's in Some Areas

Feb 17, 2009, Marc Santora, New York Times, Iraq Says It Is Interrogating 4 Men Returned by U.S. From Guantánamo Prison

Feb 17, 2009, Brian Montopoli, CBS News, Report: Cheney Lobbied Hard For Libby Pardon

Feb 17, 2009, Jason Leopold, Online Journal, Newly declassified DOD documents says detainees were tortured

Feb 17, 2009, Shaun Waterman, UPI, Cardin lays out his agenda as new head of Senate counter-terror panel

Feb 17, 2009, PC World, Group: Time for Obama's Open Gov't Promises to Be Fulfilled

Feb 17, 2009, Louise Christian, Guardian (UK), Governments must not escape public scrutiny on torture

Feb 17, 2009, Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, Investigating the Bush Years

Feb 16, 2009, Tarah Park, Jurist, UK Guantanamo detainee medically cleared for potential release

Feb 16, 2009, Devin Montgomery, Jurist, Counterterrorism practices threaten global human rights: international panel

Feb 16, 2009, Fox News, Democrats Split Over Leahy's Call for Bush Administration 'Truth' Commission

Feb 15, 2009, Daniel B. Prieto, Baltimore Sun, Terror war now Obama's

Feb 15, 2009, Agence France-Presse, Officials visit Guantanamo detainee

Feb 15, 2009, Mike Melia, Associated Press, Cruelty, chaos marked Guantanamo Bay prison's early days, ex-guard says

Feb 15, 2009, Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 'State secrets' on trial

Feb 15, 2009, Duncan Gardham, Telegraph (UK), Britain prompted block of 'torture' evidence from Guantanamo

Feb 14, 2009, Mark Knoller, CBS News, White House Not Challenging Rove's Privilege

Feb 13, 2009, Greg Bruno, New York Times, Backgrounder: Closing Guantanamo

Feb 13, 2009, Lee Hamilton, Reporter Times, Effective oversight requires an effective press

Feb 12, 2009, Jake Oresick, Jurist, Lithuania weighs taking Guantanamo prisoners

Feb 12, 2009, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, Will Obama keep some Bush antiterror tactics?

Feb 12, 2009, Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, Next flash point over terror detainees: Bagram prison

Feb 12, 2009, Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story, Revealed: Pentagon's secret prisons, legal loopholes and CIA 'ghost' detainees

Feb 12, 2009, Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story, Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death

Feb 12, 2009, Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing, Campaign for Guantánamo Detainee, Torture Survivor, Reaches Directly to Obama

Feb 12, 2009, Ximena Marinero, Jurist, Federal judge rejects jurisdiction over Guantanamo force-feeding case

Feb 12, 2009, Jordan Paust, Jurist, Defend Yoo or End Impunity?

Feb 12, 2009, Ximena Marinero, Jurist, Binyam Mohamed lawyer says torture details withheld from Obama

Feb 12, 2009, Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic, State Secrets Legislation Re-Introduced

Feb 11, 2009, Paola Loriggio, Toronto Star, Khadr lawyers outline post-release plan

Feb 11, 2009, Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Judge Seeks Further Briefing on Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity

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

Feb 10, 2009, Robert Mackey, New York Times, Hunger Strikes Continue at Guantánamo

Feb 10, 2009, The Atlantic, The Binyam Mohamed Case

Feb 10, 2009, United Press International, ACLU: Obama now accountable for rendition

Feb 10, 2009, Julian E. Barnes and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Miranda rule may hamper detainee trials

Feb 10, 2009, Julie Farby, All Headline News, Leahy Proposes "Truth Commission" To Investigate Bush Administration

Feb 10, 2009, Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, Time Is Running Out

Feb 9, 2009, Jonathan Horowitz, Jurist, Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy

Feb 9, 2009, Peter Goldsmith, Jurist, Europe must help US close Guantanamo: UK ex-AG Goldsmith

Feb 9, 2009, Jay Carmella, Jurist, Iraq official confirms Guantanamo prisoners transfer

Feb 9, 2009, Ashley Fantz, CNN, Teenage terrorist or confused kid -- Gitmo's youngest prisoner

Feb 9, 2009, Donald P. Gregg, International Herald Tribune, Speaking with the enemy

Feb 9, 2009, Richard Clarke, International Herald Tribune, The U.S. justice system works

Feb 9, 2009, Stephen Grey, ABC News, State Secrets: The CIA, Rendition and Torture in the Era of Obama

Feb 9, 2009, Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes, Ex-guard, prisoner speak out against Gitmo

Feb 7, 2009, Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, The New AG Gets a Test

Feb 7, 2009, Kathy Gannon, Associated Press, Guantanamo prisoner returns, and is arrested again

Feb 7, 2009, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Torture on trial?

Feb 7, 2009, Peter Finn & Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Obama Talks to Sept. 11, USS Cole Families About Guantanamo Prison

Feb 6, 2009, Corey McKenna, Government Technology, Homeland Security Intelligence Bill Aims to Improve Sharing

Feb 6, 2009, Agence France-Presse, Hearing on CIA rendition a test for Obama: rights group

Feb 6, 2009, Michael D. Shear, Peter Finn and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Obama to Discuss Guantanamo With Victims of Terror Attacks, Their Relatives

Feb 6, 2009, Associated Press, Obama concerned about justice for terror suspects

Feb 6, 2009, Press Association, Judge ends last Guantanamo trial

Feb 6, 2009, Pamela Hess, Associated Press, Panetta: No prosecution for CIA interrogators

Feb 6, 2009, Thomas Frank, USA Today, Use of federal database for ID checks hits some bumps

Feb 5, 2009, Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, Panetta Open to Tougher Methods in Some C.I.A. Interrogation

Feb 5, 2009, Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times, No longer rounding up just fugitive immigrants

Feb 5, 2009, Steve Czajkowski, Jurist, China again calls for return of Uighur Guantanamo detainees

Feb 5, 2009, Christian Ehret, Jurist, Military commissions review court grants government continuance in Jawad case

Feb 5, 2009, Frank Prenesti, Reuters UK, Miliband defends Guantanamo case secrecy

Feb 5, 2009, Associated Press, Panetta: No extraordinary renditions to be allowed

Feb 5, 2009, eNews Park Forest, ACLU Asks Secretary Of State Clinton To Clarify U.S. Policy On Exposing Torture And Rendition

Feb 5, 2009, Daily Press (Newport News, VA), Bush & Co.: Why are they too big to jail?

Feb 4, 2009, New York Times, Unraveling Injustice

Feb 4, 2009, Gordon Corera, BBC News, Spotlight on special relationship

Feb 4, 2009, John Ward Anderson, Politico, Holder vows to restore credibility

Feb 4, 2009, Larry Hendricks, Arizona Daily Sun, ACLU requests records of ICE raid in Flagstaff

Feb 4, 2009, Karen Harper, Examiner.com, Karl Rove will testify according to his attorney

Feb 4, 2009, Robert Winnett, Telegraph (UK), US threatens Britain over terrorism 'torture evidence'

Feb 3, 2009, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press, Obama: US choosing words carefully in terror war

Feb 3, 2009, Boston Globe, Cambridge rejects surveillance cameras

Feb 3, 2009, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Muslims demand Khadr's repatriation

Feb 3, 2009, John Byrne, Raw Story, Attorney General suggests he may make secret Bush memos public

Feb 3, 2009, Associated Press, Inhofe bill to prohibit Guantanamo transfers

Feb 3, 2009, Mark Whittington, Associated Content, President Obama to Keep Rendition

Feb 2, 2009, Web Wire, Leading Human Rights Groups Request Full Access To Guantánamo Prison

Feb 2, 2009, Richard Shears, Mail Online, British Guantanamo inmate to be returned to UK as hunger strike brings him 'close to death'

Feb 2, 2009, WRAL, Activists want anti-rendition pledge from Johnston airport

Feb 2, 2009, Los Angeles Times, Ruling did not vindicate Bush's wiretapping

Feb 1, 2009, Editorial, New York Times, A New Subpoena for Karl Rove

Feb 1, 2009, Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Justice Dept. Under Obama Is Preparing for Doctrinal Shift in Policies of Bush Years

Feb 1, 2009, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, The Rendition Canard

Feb 1, 2009, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, Plotting a course to open government

(If you want any of the above, go to bordc dot com & scroll down or click left column on news soon - although the archives dates appear extended, I don't think they are yet there permanently.)