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[MyDD] MyDD :: Blair War Criminal Charges in Offing. Merry Christmas: Several speakers pointed to the fact that the aim of the torture was precisely to get the detainees to make false statements that could then be used to justify the war on Iraq. Closing Guantanamo meant ceasing to hold people in violation of our legal principles of habeas corpus and due process and ceasing to torture them in violation of US and international laws...All Obama would be doing would be moving 100 people, .

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » U.S. officials: No more Gitmo transfers ...: One of the class of Yemeni Gitmo detainees that Falkoff described as “gentle, thoughtful young men” was released in 2005””only to blow himself up (gently and thoughtfully, of course) in a truck bombing in Mosul, Iraq, in 2008, killing 13 soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army division and seriously wounding 42 others.

[Media Matters for America - County Fair] Jerry Falwell and Kevin Jennings: Another WorldNetDaily attack ...: Lots of white people in the South agreed with the KKK a century ago, it doesn't make them any less disgustingly hateful or racist, or make their murderous actions just. Torture is against American law, and if you go slicing down the laws and the Constitution, you leave little protection for yourself and your family when they need it.

[Thoughts of a Hijaabi] One Day We'll All Be Terrorists « Thoughts of a Hijaabi: He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Manhattan. Hashmi is a U.S. citizen of Muslim descent imprisoned on two counts of providing and conspiring to provide material support and two counts of making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to al-Qaida.

[Crooks and Liars] Corporations Are Persons, Gitmo Detainees Aren't. Welcome To Our ...: But without a smoking gun- like a Bush administration memo that says, "Look, it's pretty clear that torture violates Article II of the Geneva Conventions, but fuck it, we'll claim confusion"- that you've got to assume that the prior administration was acting in good faith.

[The Washington Independent] Supreme Court Shuts Door on Gitmo Torture Case « The Washington ...: I watch as the rape and sodomy of children in the Gulag that is Camp Bucca, or Abu Ghraib is tolerated while the men who conspired to evade International law still stand at the helm of a country I no longer feel part of. I wonder do the screams of those babies echo in the minds and hearts of our Senators who have seen these atrocities on tape?

[The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism] US transfers 12 more Guantanamo detainees « The Lift - Legal ...: The application of habeas corpus to detainees held indefinitely who are legal residents of the U.S., held at Guantanamo, or held outside the U.S. are pending in the courts and raise significant issues of constitutional and international law. The decision of the Obama administration to continue a number of the measures of the Bush administration, including military commissions, indefinite detention, and secret prisons abroad, raise, despite increased procedural safeguards, the same kind of legal and constitutional objections that the Boumediene cases asserted against Bush policies.

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] War: What Is It Good For? (Cont'd) - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear onceagain that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war.He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt toblow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be atwar. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights ofAmericans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights,we won’t be at war.

[The Daily Beast - Cheat Sheet] Freed Gitmo Detainees Behind Attack - The Daily Beast: That is, unless he's forced to do something by the federal courts, he wouldn't of his own will or conscience and his swarn duty go the legal route as Obama wants to. It's a bit of a backhanded compliment for Obama and I'm quite sure that wasn't your intention but thanks, anyway for stating the truth.

[EscapeTheIllusion.com] EscapeTheIllusion.com » Blog Archive » One Day We'll All Be Terrorists: He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Manhattan. Hashmi is a U.S. citizen of Muslim descent imprisoned on two counts of providing and conspiring to provide material support and two counts of making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to al-Qaida.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » You Can Go Your Own Way: Yeah, looking at the past year of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, continuing ugliness in Iraq as we hope to withdraw, having no sword for the Gordian Knot that is Afghanistan, facing the need for even more economic stimulus in the near future and wanting to get to other issues like financial re-regulation and immigration reform not long after that…I can’t imagine why Obama doesn’t want to add a years long death struggle over criminally prosecuting members of the Bush Administration to his “to do” list.

[Progressive Nation] Progressive Nation » Blog Archive » Conservatives Attack Obama for ...: Street protesters riled up by conservatives with a political agenda may be forgiven for forgetting what’s actually in the Constitution or what the flag is supposed to stand for. But The Wall Street Journal ”” and even Pat Buchanan ”” surely know better.

[Political Animal] The Washington Monthly: The Bush administration could easily have avoided the political firestorm that it knew its secret spying program would ignite by getting warrants through the FISA courts specifically created by Congress to balance legitimate law enforcement with the protection of American civil liberties. Yet, by going behind the back of Congress and the courts, the Bush administration and the Radical Right was able to frame principled outrage over this secret and dangerous program as just another example of Democratic support for criminal rights over victim rights or national security.

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Al-Libi, Torture, and the Case for the War in Iraq | Mother Jones: Al-Libi was the man whose false confession, obtained under torture, of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda provided the Bush administration with its casus belli for war with Iraq. It didn't seem to matter that al-Libi's claim that Bin Laden had sent operatives to be trained in the use of weapons of mass destruction by Hussein's people didn't make any sense.

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