I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”
– Lewis Carroll
As the New York Times reports today, a federal appeals court yesterday found that accusations against a Uighur detainee held for more than six years at Guantanamo were based on bare and unverifiable claims.
“With some derision,” the three-judge panel said the [...]
Tags: "Huzaifa Parhat" · "Lewis Carroll" · China · Guantanamo · snark · Uighur · war on terror
Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) gave a magnificent speech on the Senate floor in opposition to the FISA bill before that body. Among its other reprehensible provisions, the bill would give retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that fed information to the National Security Administration, without judicial warrant and without notifying the individuals.
But Dodd went much [...]
Tags: Bush Administration · Chris Dodd · extraordinary rendition · FISA · Guantanamo · torture · war on terror · waterboarding
