Well, well, well, well, well!
The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh.
Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. efforts to [...]
It’s really very simple.
Feisal Abdul Rauf has a perfect right to build an Islamic community center 2 blocks from Ground Zero. He has a legal right, and he has a moral right. He has a fundamental constitutional right.
Nobody has any right to stop him from building that community center. Not even [...]
Back in May, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government published an interesting little study of media dishonesty. It examined how four major newspapers — the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today — have covered the topic of [...]
Yahya Wehelie is an American citizen, born and raised in Virginia, trapped by President Obama’s homeland security apparatus in a literally Kafkaesque nightmare which ranks right along with some of George Bush’s most ludicrous homeland security shenanigans.
This is far from the first time that Obama has been in the spotlight for seamlessly continuing the [...]
Back in January 2009, when President Obama was assembling his Justice Department team, liberal bloggers were giddy with excitement over the fine, fine people he was picking. Champions of the Constitution, and paragons of virtue, they were going to preside over the Constitution’s slow but complete recovery from the gang rape it had suffered [...]
The New York Times is furiously wiping something off its face, and it doesn’t look like egg to me.
Once again, they have been caught simply making up stuff and passing it along, hiding behind the flimsy skirts of the anonymous source routine:
McClatchy Newpapers is reporting that “U.S. officials” are contending that there is [...]
Yesterday, the Obama administration proudly kicked off the “first major hearing of a military tribunal on (their) watch”.
The poster child for the Obama military tribunals is a mere child. Or, at least, that’s what he was when he was captured, before being bunged into Guantanamo Bay. He has now spent a third of [...]
Yesterday, attorney general Eric Holder held up military commissions for Guantanamo detainees as “not only appropriate, but also necessary.”
It probably behooves us to ask: appropriate and necessary for what? Even he isn’t ready (yet) to argue that they are appropriate and necessary for the rule of law to triumph. They are appropriate and [...]
How many times are we going to watch this same movie? There is a military incident that results in charges of misconduct of one kind of another. First, the military denies that the alleged misconduct occurred. Then, they deny that the official version of events constitutes a cover-up. And then, just [...]
Yesterday, Judge Vaughn R. Walker handed down a ruling that the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Al Haramain, and two of its lawyers, in 2004 was illegal.
At first blush, it may seem that Judge Walker held the NSA warrantless wiretapping program to be illegal. Especially when The New York Times‘ lede reads:
A federal [...]
