USA: Current Rights News April 2, 2009 to April 7th, 2009

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Another Bush Intelligence Failure
While boasting about the success of waterboarding and warrantless wiretaps, the Bush administration neglected the nuts and bolts of an effective intelligence community, reports Robert Parry. April 6, 2009

Cowardice in the Time of Torture
By ignoring Vice President Dick Cheney's waterboarding admission, Attorney General Eric Holder is joining a "nation of cowards" who dare not confront torture, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. April 5, 2009

Conyers Again Seeks Bush Prosecutor
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers says a criminal probe of alleged Bush administration crimes is needed despite political concerns about upsetting Republicans, writes Jason Leopold. April 5, 2009
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Farce at Guantánamo, as cleared prisoner’s habeas petition is denied

6.4.09

In 2007, after four rounds of administrative reviews at Guantánamo, Hedi Hammamy, a Tunisian prisoner, born in 1969, was cleared for release, having satisfied the Pentagon that he no longer represented a threat to the United States or its allies, and no longer possessed any ongoing intelligence value. He was not released, however, because, although [...]

* Guantanamo and US District Courts/Appeals Courts, Return to torture, Tunisians in Guantanamo

Justice extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror

6.4.09

Since coming to power in a blaze of reforming glory, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, to stop the CIA from running offshore torture prisons, and to restore the Geneva Conventions to prisoners seized in wartime, the Obama administration has proceeded to make a number of poor decisions in relation to its predecessors’ reviled [...]


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4/6, Agence France-Presse, Guantanamo Uighurs take case to US Supreme Court

4/6, Barbara Schaeder, Associated Press, Austria rejects US Guantanamo detainee request

4/6, The Cato Institute, NY Civil Liberties Union Says to Repeal REAL ID Act

4/6, Fredric Paul, bMighty.com, Is A Good Privacy Policy Also Good Business?

4/4, Lisa Richwine, Reuters, US military removes lawyer from Guantanamo case

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