Articles tagged with: Bush Administration
By William Fisher
NEW YORK, May 12, 2010 (IPS) – In a major decision overturning a George W. Bush-era policy that has been continued by the administration of President Barack Obama, a federal court ruled that …
By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 20, 2009; A05
At a retirement party last week for the head of the FBI’s Washington field office, Muslim and Arab leaders presented the guest of honor with a …
New York Times, November 11, 2009
Editorial
A National Disgrace
Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and …
By RACHEL DONADIO
MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric …
From Amnesty International
MILAN, ITALY – The convictions of US and Italian intelligence agents for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar) mark a step toward accountability for …
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, October 31, 2009
United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau
Six detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the …
TORONTO STAR EXCLUSIVE: Classified photos show Toronto-born Omar Khadr lying buried and hurt in a trench during a firefight in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. commando. His lawyers say that proves he couldn’t have thrown the lethal grenade
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post
The Supreme Court today put aside objections from the Obama administration and said it will consider whether judges have the right to release into the U.S. detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, …
From The New York Times
It has been nearly 20 years since Congress repealed the provisions used during the cold war to deny visas to prominent foreign intellectuals, artists and activists because of their left-leaning politics, …
By Paul Koring
The “global war on terrorism” is over and calling it that was a bad idea, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser said Thursday.
The phrase, coined by former president George W. Bush and often rendered …
By PAUL KORING
May 14, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, jettisoning previous pledges of openness, ordered a new court battle yesterday to keep secret photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Allowing publication of …
Obama Administration To Revive Fatally Flawed Military Commissions
Move Would Strike A Blow To Due Process, Says ACLU
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 9, 2009
CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (646) 206-8643; media@aclu.org
NEW YORK – News …
Federal Court Permits Landmark ACLU Rendition Case To Go Forward Government Cannot Claim State Secrets To Deny Torture Victims Day In Court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 28, 2009 CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (212) 549-2689 …
