March 1, 2007

They Lost The DVD?

According to the Bush administration, the prosecution of Jose Padilla is one of the most important post-9/11 anti-terrorism cases this nation has ever brought. But you'll never believe it.... they've... [More]

March 3, 2007

In Your Name

Via Andrew Sullivan, more evidence of the things being done in your name, this time from the LA Times: ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the... [More]

March 6, 2007

Ackerman Goes Embed

For those of you who aren't regular readers of his blog, Spencer Ackerman and his blog have just gone embed in Iraq. His plan, apparently, is to post more often... [More]

March 15, 2007

Questions

You know, if we followed standard criminal justice procedures with terrorism suspects, including interrogations without torture and trials open to the public, questions like these might not be necessary: Is... [More]

March 22, 2007

FBI Violations May Number 3,000, Official Says

Trust us, they said. We'll never abuse the provisions of the Patriot Act, they said. We only want what is best for you, they said. We only want to protect... [More]

March 23, 2007

Sacred Spaces

This is why nothing should ever be built on the 9/11 site. Leave it as a memorial to those who perished. Leave it as it is so that we never... [More]

March 24, 2007

NYT: Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention

Shades of the 1960s in this story from the NYT: For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled... [More]

March 30, 2007

Notice the Priorities

the people held in the Guantanamo Bay prison facility are supposed to be the worst of the worst. They are so bad, so evil, the administration has argued, that they... [More]