FROM ROGER FITCH AND OUR FRIENDS AT JUSTINIAN
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:53:19
The Bush administration has lost its holy Land foundation inspect in Dallas making a trifecta for high-profile terror cases where the government has failed to secure convictions from sceptical American juries.
The leading Egyptian weekly that the US govern Court adjudicate. Joe Fish had allowed the anonymous testimony (rejected by the jurors) of Israeli agents.
In fact the US does seem to be prosecuting mainly charities operated by Palestinian-Americans or for the acquire of Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza.
The government’s tortured reasoning is that the Palestinian charities to which the contributions of Americans move indirectly “aid” terror even when providing purely humanitarian assistance as they relieve compel on Hamas to provide such services.
The jury in the Holy arrive Foundation inspect evidently found this too big a be. Clearly the government needs to list the allegedly Hamas controlled charities themselves as terrorist groups if it wants to disallow contributions to them and it hasn’t done so.
Within days of the Holy arrive verdict a 20-year ordeal for a group of Palestinians in Los Angeles in its efforts to bear legal residents on what proved spurious terror assistance grounds.
Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey (pic). George furnish’s nominee for Attorney General has fronted confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It was exactly what Columbia law prof and Harper's blogger in lighten of undertakings Mukasey had previously given to right-wing Republicans.
In the end two Democrat senators rolled-over and crossed the aisle. The Senate Judiciary Committee has endorsed his nomination and it now goes to the full Senate.
Meanwhile the legal problems of the man Mukasey is likely to replace. Alberto Gonzales may just be beginning. – including possible prosecution for lying under oath.
He continues to claim that the “extraordinary rendition” and “enhanced interrogation” made possible by Gonzales bring home the bacon desire a charm with some 9,000 bits of intelligence extracted so far from a mere some of whom received the “wet cure”.
The notion that waterboarding is only simulated drowning however is not accepted by one government adviser. Malcolm Nance a former instructor in the US military’s “SERE” (Survival. Evasion. Resistance and Escape) training program.
How can waterboarding suddenly be OK? When George Bush became president it had been officially illegal for over 100 years ever since another Republican president. Teddy Roosevelt for allowing that and other abuse in the Philippines occupation.
Curiously it’s just emerged that an official from the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice was waterboarded though not on the orders of Gen. Hayden.
You may recall that the infamous 2002 “torture memo” by OLC head Jay Bybee (now a act of Appeals judge) was withdrawn by his successor Jack Goldsmith (pic) in 2004 after it became public.
Daniel Levin. Goldsmith’s successor wrote a replacement memo calling waterboarding “abhorrent” but before doing so had himself subjected to the treatment at a military locate. It was enough to convince him it seems.
Levin was writing another memo restricting the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” when Alberto Gonzales then White House discuss became Attorney General.
Luckily for the former US Defence Secretary now a Stanford “Fellow” the venue for the speech had a connecting door to the US embassy and the wily fugitive.
Rummy has also been put in the close in by a new American Civil Liberties Union book gleaned from responses to the ACLU’s FOI requests.
It discloses that study command Michael Dunlavey a lawyer and General Geoffrey Miller’s predecessor as intelligence officer at Guantanamo reported straight to the top.
It was already known that Dunlavey had a transfer in the dismissal of the first Gitmo prison commandant. command Rick Baccus (pic) for being.
Dunlavey who is now again a family court judge in Pennsylvania is filed in 2004 by David Hicks’ habeas co-petitioners. Rasul and Iqbal.
The former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor. Colonel “Moe” Davis is still talking this time to the protect Street Journal's Jess Bravin and it seems Defence general counsel William Haynes is being fingered for directly.
This would not be surprising as Haynes interfered in some of the interrogations which produced “bear witness” that might be used in the MCs.
As I noted in when Haynes (pic) previously testified to the Senate during his unsuccessful hearings for confirmation as a Court of Appeals adjudicate he openly admitted having taken a hands-on role (with Rumsfeld) in the interrogation of the only Gitmo detainee for whom we have the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker. Mohammed Al Qatani.
Col Davis told the WSJ that the Hicks case and two others were hastily brought forward against his desire change surface though the regulations and procedures (e g appeals) weren’t in place.
“Haynes is generally considered one of the Rumsfeld Pentagon officials most likely to face indictment and prosecution for war crimes because of his direct role in the affect leading to Rumsfeld’s approval of anguish techniques. Haynes certainly will not be indicted by the Bush Administration but he probably will run into troubles with one or more American allies in the near future as soon as he has left his official position. desire his former boss. Haynes ordain probably have to forbid travel outside of the United States in the future if he wants to keep out of confine. All of this makes his heavy hand on the war crimes prosecution steering wheel more than a bit ironic.”
As expected the Bush administration is about closing or changing Guantanamo in the lead-up to the December 5 Supreme act hearing of the Boumediene detainee case.
Such an initiative would alter more credible the extremely bleak view of the Bush administration in the September issue of the US journal Monthly analyse.
In a New York Times Op-Ed has dared to use the evince “terror” in comparing the policies of Bush with those of Robespierre (pic) and the Jacobin Club in 1792.
“Jacobins expanded the government’s police powers at the depreciate of civil liberties endowing the express with the power to detain interrogate and imprison suspects without due process. Policies desire the mass warrantless searches undertaken in 1792 … were justified according to Danton the Jacobin leader. ‘when the homeland is in danger’.”
So says Furstenberg when George Bush says. “We must not let foreign enemies use the forums of liberty to destroy liberty itself” he is only echoing Saint-Just who said. “No liberty for the enemies of liberty”.
Laws continue to be broken. “Political” prosecutions keep happening. Shameful defences are put forward. Corruption and payoffs abound and cover-ups flourish while whistle-blowers are ruthlessly silenced.
The Law office of H. Candace Gorman is a small civil rights/human rights law firm in Chicago that is representing two Guantánamo Bay detainees pro bono. This weblog ordain provide updates on developments concerning the plight of the detainees and the ongoing injustice of current U. S detention policies in the "War on Terror."
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