ANP: How did Jay Bybee breeze through confirmation for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court? Not a single Democrat questioned Bybee at the session, and the proceedings came to a quick conclusion. The following month he was confirmed by the full Senate. Just six months prior to the hearing, Jay Bybee had signed legal […]
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The Jay Bybee Problem
April 25, 2009The Afghan trap
February 23, 2009Ray McGovern: US attempt to trap the USSR in 1979 is at root of current situation in Afghanistan As Obama sends 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, we look back to the roots of the conflict. Ray McGovern says that the USSR was “mousetrapped” into invading Afghanistan by the CIA under both the Carter and Reagan administrations. […]
Last Guantánamo detainee’s trial halted
February 6, 2009Charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri over USS Cole attack are dropped by terror judge The last terror trial at Guantánamo Bay had been halted after the senior military judge dropped charges against a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, the Pentagon has said. The military charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd […]
Obama keeps renditions in the tool box
February 2, 2009The role of the CIA’s controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say. By Greg Miller February 1, 2009 Reporting from Washington — The CIA’s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. But […]
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