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Common Dreams (press release): Government Rushes Guantánamo Cases While Delaying Detainee ... 2008-05-15

According to the Military Commissions Act, defendants must go before the military commission within 30 days of the formal filing of charges.

Mother Jones: Kiss American Security Goodbye 2008-05-15

When, in October 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act , and an Office of Homeland Security (which, in 2002, became a "department") was established ...

ACLU (press release): Government Rushes Guantánamo Cases While Delaying Detainee ... 2008-05-15

According to the Military Commissions Act, defendants must go before the military commission within 30 days of the formal filing of charges.

ZNet: Conyers Mounts Opposition to Iran Attack 2008-05-15

... 18 USC 2511(2)(f), the Justice Department has asserted that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping in violation of FISA is "supported ...

The Nation.: McCain Sells Out Vets 2008-05-15

Ross Tuttle: Ethical conflicts and judicial dysfunction cloud the military commissions system at Guantánamo. Media Matters for America : Why does ...

Yahoo! News: Fallon for Congress 2008-05-15

... majority) has included terrible votes on key issues--notably his support for both the Iraq War and the Patriot Act in 2001 and its reauthorization in 2005.

OpEdNews: An Open Letter to Bank of America 2008-05-15

I suggested, thinking of the Patriot Act . I stated that casually blowing our private financial and residential information to the winds is a 4th amendment ...

Diamonds.net: Avi Paz Closes World Diamond Congress 2008-05-15

But this is only part of the equation, as is our insistence that our members comply with anti-money laundering legislation, like the Patriot Act in ...

Reuters: Accused September 11 planners set for court on June 5 2008-05-15

"This approach will only add to the illegitimacy of the military commissions ." The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that Susan Crawford, the official ...

JURIST: Alleged Sept. 11 plotters scheduled for arraignment 2008-05-15

The chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military commissions , US Army Col. Lawrence Morris, said that the trials of Mohammed and the other Sept.

New York Times: IRS Seeks Reports of Foreign Accounts 2008-05-15

But provisions in the USA Patriot Act aimed at stopping the financing of terrorists raised the maximum civil fine to $100000 or half of the amount in ...

JURIST: Legal advisor staying after Guantanamo trial disqualification 2008-05-15

Hartmann serves as legal adviser to Susan J. Crawford, the Convening Authority [backgrounder] for the military commissions , but last week was disqualified ...

PR Web (press release): Southpac Announces 2008 Offshore Planning Institute in Las Veg ... 2008-05-15

... PC (Chicago, IL), presenting on Ethics and Offshore Planning: Anti-Money Laundering Rules, the USA Patriot Act , and Related US Tax Issues.

JURIST: Gitmo detainee transfers put US in tight spot 2008-05-15

In particular, it seems unlikely that the US government will reconsider its charging decisions in military commissions and try to prosecute a greater number ...

The Kingston Whig-Standard: Putting the force back in the Forces; Canada is rebuilding ... 2008-05-15

The cadets who received their degrees yesterday will receive their military commissions from the vice-chief of the defence staff, Lt.-Gen.

Seattle Times: June 5 arraignment set for Gitmo 9/11 suspects 2008-05-15

By military-commissions rules, an accused must go before a war-court judge within 30 days of approval and service of charges, unless the defense seeks ...

taz.de: íNetizen Journalism is getting back to the roots of journalismì 2008-05-15

The US Treasury Department under the US Patriot Act was able to be the accuser and then the judge and jury, to make the judgement and then have banks around ...

World Socialist Web Site: Judge cites conflict of interest in removing official ... 2008-05-15

By Joe Kay Charges against one of the six alleged 9/11 conspirators in the US military commissions system at Guantánamo Bay were rejected last week ...

MiamiHerald.com: President Bush's Supreme Court counsel quits 2008-05-15

The court ruled against Clement in Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the case that sent the White House back to Congress for approval for its Military Commissions ...

taz.de: íNetizen Journalism is getting back to the roots of journalismì 2008-05-15

The US Treasury Department under the US Patriot Act was able to be the accuser and then the judge and jury, to make the judgement and then have banks around ...

JURIST: US offloading Guantanamo detainees to face uncertain justice ... 2008-05-14

Khalid Sekander [former legal advisor to USAID]: "The US Supreme Court said in 2006 that military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees ...

Washington Post: Charges Against 9/11 Suspect Dropped 2008-05-14

Crawford has not commented publicly since taking over as the top official for military commissions , and a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday she has ...

Business Gazette: Getting the numbers straight 2008-05-14

Apparently now, under the new Patriot Act , the town must send individual letters for each voter suspected of being ineligible; then the county makes a final ...

Enews 2.0: Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Face Capital Charges 2008-05-14

Military Commissions officials confirmed plans for the first war court prosecution seeking execution as the ultimate penalty, the Houston Chronicle noted.

New York Times: Books of The Times How Abu Ghraib Became the Anything-Goes Prison 2008-05-14

... military order declaring that detainees could be tried by military tribunals and that íit is not practicable to apply in military commissions under th ...

Houston Chronicle: Five at Guantanamo to face capital charges 2008-05-14

Military Commissions officials e-mailed the approved charge sheets to defense lawyers after the close of business Monday ë confirming plans for the first ...

Hindu: Anti-money laundering readiness of Indian banks 2008-05-14

Declarations regarding this would need to be made by the Indian banks to meet the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America ...

Florida Times-Union: Guantanamo: 'Misunderstood by most' 2008-05-14

To comply with the US Military Commissions Act of 2006, the prisoners will be tried in court. Military personnel who served at Guantanamo Bay prior ...

New York Times: Case Against 9/11 Detainee Is Dismissed 2008-05-14

íGiven the political nature of the entire process,ì Captain Prince said, íI just don"t see how my client can get a fair trial before military commissions .

The Daily Astorian: How free are we? 2008-05-14

All this - not to mention Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition and warrantless wiretapping - is ample reason to hope Freedom House and the Economist ...

SX: Keeping Abreast 2008-05-14

Hillary"s not perfect: she voted for the war (then backtracked) and for the US Patriot Act , a nasty piece of legislation that all but obliterates a person" ...

OpEdNews: Bush & Congress Ratify New Bill of Rights 2008-05-13

Patriot Act , FEMA Camps, wiretapping, TSA, etc...all that was left was to draft a new Bill of Rights to supercede the first. Congress shall make no law ...

MiamiHerald.com: 5 Gitmo detainees to face 9/11 death penalty case 2008-05-13

Military Commissions officials e-mailed the approved charge sheets to defense lawyers in Washington, DC, after the close of business Monday -- confirming ...

Boston Globe: Candidates hold stances on Guantanamo 2008-05-11

In 2006, he supported the Military Commissions Act, which provided military trials for some of the detainees, but allows evidence obtained through torture.

Washington Post: Adviser Barred From Detainee Case Over Bias Concerns 2008-05-11

By Josh White The Pentagon's top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions was disqualified late last week from participating in the prosecuti ...

Sydney Morning Herald: US lawyer barred for Guantanamo bias 2008-05-11

WASHINGTON: A military judge has disqualified the Pentagon's top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions from participating in the prosecuti ...

Enews 2.0: Judge Removes Top Legal Adviser from Guantanamo Case 2008-05-11

By Andrew Duncan A US military judge has disqualified the Pentagon"s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions , one of the key figures ...

PRESS TV: Candidates differ on Gitmo future 2008-05-11

Democratic candidate Barack Obama says that if he is elected president, he would stop the military commissions and try the remaining Guantanamo Bay ...

Florida Times-Union: One week at Mattie V. Rutherford alternative school 2008-05-11

Debate turned to police search and seizure, the Patriot Act , and the right of privacy vs. security. "Good people do bad things too.

JURIST: Top Pentagon legal adviser disqualified from Guantanamo trial: NYT 2008-05-11

Hartmann is legal adviser to Susan J. Crawford, the Convening Authority [backgrounder] for the military commissions . The New York Times has more.

Reuters: Military judge rules against key Guantanamo figure-NYT 2008-05-10

Hartmann, a senior Pentagon official in the Office of Military Commissions which runs the war crimes system, was ordered to have no further role in ...

KULR-TV: State Democratic Candidates Debate 2008-05-10

They fielded questions ranging from the Second Amendment, to the Patriot Act , to keeping Montana children safe; they agreed on many points.

New York Times: Judge Drops General From Trial of Detainee 2008-05-10

Thomas W. Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve, a senior Pentagon official of the Office of Military Commissions , which runs the war crimes system ...

San Diego Union Tribune: Messages on 'Detainee News Network' call for detainees to boycott ... 2008-05-10

No detainee has actually been put on trial before the í military commissions ì created by the Bush administration in 2006. The process has been criticized ...

Center for Research on Globalization: FBI Loses National Security Letter Case Against Internet Archive 2008-05-09

And since the passage of the viral Patriot Act in 2001 by a servile Congress, the use of these illegal procedures have fed the FBI's seemingly insatiable ...

CASMII: Iran resolution goes to Evanston City Council 2008-05-09

In the past, the city has approved resolutions on national issues, including opposition to the war in Iraq, calling for repeal of the USA Patriot Act ...

Trinidad & Tobago Express: President Obama 2008-05-09

... the civil liberties that were destroyed by the Patriot Act and subsequent legislation - are high-priority tasks that are practically cost-free.

MiamiHerald.com: Judge threatens to suspend trial of terror suspect 2008-05-09

The hearing took place in the original military commissions courtroom, on a hill overlooking Camp Justice, the nickname for the Pentagon's so-called ...

Common Dreams (press release): ACLU Resumes Vigilant Watch as Unconstitutional Guantánamo ... 2008-05-08

... a right granted by Congress in the 2006 Military Commissions Act. The case against al-Bahlul, who in 2004 first announced his desire to represent ...

Current IT news from heise online: FBI backs off in dispute with Internet Archive 2008-05-08

According to the ACLU, the lawsuit is the first known case in which an NSL served on a library has been challenged since the revision of the Patriot Act ...

San Mateo County Times: FBI agrees to lift Internet gag order 2008-05-08

... this was the first case to assert protections for libraries that Congress set in 2006's reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act . EFF senior staff ...

MiamiHerald.com: Judge threatens to suspend war court trial 2008-05-08

The hearing took place in the original military commissions courtroom, an old air traffic control tower on a hill overlooking ``Camp Justice.

Nashua Telegraph: House let citizens down with impeachment vote 2008-05-08

... Vice President Dick Cheney and the Department of Justice have overstepped these limits by the removal of habeas corpus, warrantless wiretapping ...

FindLaw: The Justice Department's Litigation Security Group and Its Ethic ... 2008-05-08

By JESSELYN RADACK One of the most viable challenges to the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program is a lawsuit brought in federal court ...

InformationWeek: FBI Withdraws Probe Of Wayback Machine Users 2008-05-08

Congress amended a provision of the Patriot Act in 2006 to limit the FBI's power to demand library records through the use of National Security Letters.

Journal of Turkish Weekly: Country Reports on Terrorism 2007: Europe and Eurasia Overview - II 2008-05-08

Since the May 2005 US Treasury designation of two Latvian banks as institutions of "primary money laundering concern" under Section 311 of the Patriot Act ...

Washington Post: FBI Backs Off From Secret Order 2008-05-08

26, and the nonprofit challenged it based on a provision of the reauthorized USA Patriot Act , which protects libraries from such requests.

Free Internet Press: FBI Backs Off From Secret Data Request After Lawsuit Filed 2008-05-08

26, and the nonprofit challenged it based on a provision of the reauthorized USA Patriot Act , which protects libraries from such requests.

Scripps News: Online library gets FBI to back off in Patriot Act test 2008-05-08

A 1986 law initially authorized their use against suspected spies, but the USA Patriot Act , passed after the terrorist attacks of Sept.

JURIST: FBI withdraws national security letter in Internet library settlement 2008-05-08

This was the first publicly reported challenge to an NSL served on a library since Congress approved changes in the Patriot Act [JURIST report] in 2006 ...

E-Commerce Times: Internet Archive Wins David-and-Goliath Privacy Tussle With FBI 2008-05-08

National Security Letters, or NSLs, have been in existence for some time, but the post-9/11 Patriot Act greatly expanded their use as a tool in the war ...

Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: Failure to debate brings Boswell flak 2008-05-08

Fallon has criticized Boswell for his vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq and in favor of the Patriot Act , and his record on environmental issues.

ZDNet: Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters 2008-05-08

It is such an outrageous abuse of the Bill of Rights that the time has come for the next administration to Repeal the Patriot Act . íIt was amended in 2006 ...

Village Times Herald: Goodman siblings hold power's feet to the fire 2008-05-08

Among those profiled in the book are four Connecticut librarians who successfully challenged a provision in the USA Patriot Act ordering them to be silent ...

Mediapost.com: Just An Online Minuteâ FBI Retreat: Victory For Online Privacy 2008-05-08

That group and the ACLU sued, arguing that Congress in 2006 amended the Patriot Act to restrict the FBI"s ability to order libraries to disclose informati ...

BetaNews: Internet Archive emerges victorious in national security row ... 2008-05-08

The complaint went on to cite the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision last September which declared certain parts of the US Patriot Act ...

Economist: Land of the free? 2008-05-08

not only details and condemns the administration's familiar sins, from Guantánamo to extraordinary rendition to warrantless wiretapping .

IT Business Edge: Internet Archive Fought the Law â And Won! 2008-05-08

... without the court order required for other government searches. The federal judge agreed and struck down a provision of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act .

Ars Technica: Revoked NSL aimed at Internet Archive shows need for reform 2008-05-08

The NSL provision of the PATRIOT Act allows the FBI to covertly demand access to records held by Internet service providers and other organizations.

Foxes on Idol: The NGH Report ê Thoughts on the American Idol 7 Top 4 Results 2008-05-08

It"sa Patriot Act thing. Because the only thing worse than terrorists are írunner-ups.ì Yuck. The plane íeven had its own bedroom!

Search Engine Land: Internet Archive Wins Fight Against Secret FBI Request For Records 2008-05-08

When in comes to search privacy, one of the biggest worries in my book has been the US government's ability under the Patriot Act to make secret request ...

eFluxMedia: FBI Backs Off From NSL Request After Being Challenged In Court 2008-05-08

In 2001, the USA Patriot Act significantly expanded the use of NSLs, and as The New York Times reported last year, FBI isn"t the only agency to use them.

Bangor Daily News: Jacob Gerritsen: A counterweight to oppression 2008-05-08

Is the provision in the Patriot Act that allows the FBI to demand your medical records from your doctor and then forbids him to tell you about it really ...

Fort Worth Star Telegram: Denton gets decent rank for data centers 2008-05-08

... the Patriot Act ; and the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act, which set national standards for the protection of health information.

The Missoulian: Tester: Real ID erodes privacy 2008-05-08

That erosion of privacy started with the Patriot Act , which gave the FBI íextraordinary powers to snoop on the private lives of all Americans,ì he said.

City on a Hill Press: Immigrants" and Workers" Rights Spoken Through the Megaphone 2008-05-08

the same congressperson who introduced the USA PATRIOT Act . In response to HR 4437, the United States saw millions of people take to the streets to oppose ...

Detroit Free Press: Recent movie releases 2008-05-08

Racial profiling, the Patriot Act and radical Muslim terrorists come in for goofball skewering in a comedy that never lets viewers completely escape ...

MiamiHerald.com: Glitches mar debut of Guantánamo war court 2008-05-08

... in the 2006 Military Commissions Act. He flatly refused his Pentagon appointed attorney, saying he would rather represent himself at trial, silently.

World Socialist Web Site: Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried ... 2008-05-08

He is charged under the Military Commissions Act, a law passed by Congress in 2006 that essentially abrogates habeas corpus rights, while affirming ...

CNET News.com: FBI rescinds secret order for Internet Archive records 2008-05-08

The 2001 Patriot Act and its subsequent reauthorization dramatically expanded the FBI's ability to use NSLs, which do not require a court order and ...

News & Issues: Congressional Republicans Reach Deal on Patriot Act - About 2008-05-08

The White House brokered a compromise deal with Congressional Republicans on Thursday that will move a Patriot Act reauthorization bill to the floor next ...

News & Issues: Internet Archive Successfully Challenges National Security Letter - About 2008-05-08

Courtesy of the US Patriot Act . At least one judge has ruled that NSLs are unconstitutional due to the gag order; the ruling is under appeal to the US Court ...