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Gag orders unconstitutional

Kudos to the ACLU, whose case Doe v. Mukasey resulted in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' striking down Patriot Act provisions that impose gag orders on those who receive national security letters. A national security letter (NSL) is a document that allows the FBI to obtain information about you...

Sins of the father?

On Friday, Omar Khadr (right) appeared before his judges at Guantánamo. As we've posted, Khadr has been held at Guantánamo since 2002, when he was 15. Accused of the murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan, Khadr is the only citizen of a Western country still in confinement at Camp Delta, w...

Gitmo Detainee Database Available

For those who might have missed it on the New York Times website, after several years' hard work, the paper's researchers Andrei Scheinkman, Margot Williams, Alan McLean, Tom Torok and Stephan Weitberg have compiled a searchable database of the Guantánamo detainees. Detainees are listed in ...

Since the nation's founding, persons lawfully residing in this country have correctly understood that they can be imprisoned for suspected wrongdoing only if the government charges them with a crime and tries them before a jury. So ends the IHT's report that the Supreme Court decided on Friday to...

Death by Consumption on Buy Nothing Day

Taking its usual delight in reporting on the freakishness of life in the United States, Le Monde reported the death of a New York Wal-Mart employee, crushed to death by the stampeding crowd of 2000 shoppers rushing in to fill their baskets on what is apparently known as "Black Friday" (I remember...