U.S. fights detainee access to attorney
A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency’s closely guarded interrogation techniques.
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Apparently the US Department of Homeland Security is about to start deciding who can travel in advance on every flight. Some are comparing this to countries where you had to have your travel papers with you to enter or exit their country.
I saw that one coming. But notice the body language as you watch the video of the interview.
News13, Colorado Springs: Haggard Admits to Some of the Allegations
Pastor Ted Haggard is now admitting that some of the allegations by former gay escort, Mike Jones are true.
In an e-mail obtained by NEWSCHANNEL 13, Acting Senior Pastor Ross Parsley says Haggard confessed to the board of overseers. Parsley told members of New Life Church; ” He has willingly and humbly submitted to the authority of the board of overseers, and will remain on administrative leave during the course of the investigation.”
Retired judges call detainee law unconstitutional
Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of President Bush’s new anti-terrorism law unconstitutional.
The judges, in a rare court filing Wednesday, said stripping courts of the right to question how the military handles terrorism suspects “challenges the integrity of our judicial system” and effectively sanctions the use of torture.
Bush signed a law this month allowing the military to arrest people overseas and detain them indefinitely without allowing them to use the U.S. courts to contest their detention. Bush hailed the law, which established a system of military trials, as a crucial tool in the war on terrorism and said it would allow prosecution of several high-level terror suspects.
During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.
What Bush Has Wrought
Robert Scheer
Every time I hear President Bush railing against those who would “cut and run” in Iraq instead of pursuing “victory,” as he does almost daily, I think back to similar claims being made for the Vietnam debacle when I reported from Saigon in the mid-’60s. Back then, the US troop presence was lower and casualties fewer than now in Iraq, but the carnage, on all sides, would escalate for the next decade, as we waited miserably for the corner to be turned.
An Aging Trans Woman 