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1. Julie Roginsky: Cheney’s effort to demonize lawyers disrespects our Constitution
(Opinion/Commentary)

... same office as Adams, is leading a movement to demonize current Department of Justice attorneys who — both in and out of uniform — had previously defended Guantánamo detainees. Apparently, the right to ...

2. Deborah Jacobs: A healthy democracy depends on access to information
(Opinion/Commentary)

... 11 legal cases in the country seeking information about detainees held secretly in New Jersey jails. In 2002, we campaigned for key revisions to OPRA, which have stood as law ever since. Let's face it: ...

3. ACLU challenging blanket strip searches in New Jersey jails
(N.J./State)

... detainees to needless humiliation," said Ed Barocas, Legal Director for the ACLU-NJ. "There is no legitimate reason for these types of policies to exist." The amicus brief, filed in the U.S. Court ...

4. Obama faults U.S. intelligence community for not stopping Christmas Day terrorist attack
(U.S./Nation)

... to find out what happened," said Robert Gibbs. White House officials have also made clear they will not revisit plans to close the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Several detainees returned ...

5. Egypt’s use of torture exposed on the Internet
(World/International)

... Islamist militants. It has been used increasingly on political detainees and suspects in criminal cases, as well as their families. "Everyone who falls in the grasp of the police, particularly the poor, ...

6. White House exaggerating progress at Guantanamo Bay
(U.S./Nation)

BY DAFNA LINZER PROPUBLICA Yesterday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made two claims about the administration's handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay that overstated its progress in clearing ...

7. Alleged September 11 mastermind to face trial in New York City
(U.S./Nation)

... conspirators." Holder also announced that five other detainees now being held at Guantanamo will face military commissions, including the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in ...

8. N.J. gets $3.2M for prisoner re-entry programs
(N.J./State)

... DHS services to a total of 16 counties. The funding is designed to help jail detainees with mental illness to re-enter their communities through assessments, pre-release planning and making connections ...

9. White House to supervise High-Value Interrogation Group
(U.S./Nation)

BY MICHAEL BOWMAN VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — The White House says it will directly supervise a new unit that is being set up to interrogate high value terror detainees. The announcement came Monday as the ...

10. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) not a praised agency
(U.S./Nation)

... DHS to respond within 30 days to a petition by immigration detainees and civil rights groups that seeks to improve detention conditions at facilities across the country. Last February, Department of ...

11. Louis Freeh became "defense lawyer" for Saudis on Khobar
(World/International)

BY GARETH PORTER IPS NEWS AGENCY WASHINGTON — In early November 1998, Louis Freeh sent an FBI team off to observe Saudi secret police officials interviewing eight Shi'a detainees from behind a one-way ...

12. White House is drafting executive order to allow indefinite detention to help with Guantanamo closing
(U.S./Nation)

... but said the administration would address the cases of Guantanamo detainees in a manner "consistent with the national security interests of the United States and the interests of justice." One administration ...

13. Iranian presidential election: The day of confrontation and clarity
(World/International)

... people arrested in the current turmoil. The detainees, according to these reports, have confessed to being members of Mojaheddin-e Khalq, an Iraq-based dissident group that is widely unpopular due to ...

14. New Jersey National Guard gets heroes' welcome home in Trenton
(N.J./State)

... of more than 20,000 detainees at several locations in Iraq. In early January 2009, the 50th IBCT played a pivotal role in the transfer of authority of the Baghdad's International Zone, also known as the ...

15. Guantanamo terrorist suspect pleads not guilty in N.Y. civilian court
(World/International)

... which was established after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States. He was seized in Pakistan in 2004 and was one of the 14 "high-value detainees" transferred to Guantanamo from secret ...

16. Oliver North: ‘I’ve been waterboarded, I used to waterboard people’
(World/International)

... Qaeda detainees. The Office of Legal Counsel determined that the techniques in question were not torture and that it was legal for the CIA to use them in the limited and controlled circumstances under ...

17. Palau will take Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay
(World/International)

... effort to resettle the Guantanamo detainees. U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered Guantanamo to be shut down by January of next year. The Bush administration refused to designate the Uighurs as ...

18. Republicans: Keep Gitmo terrorists out of Jersey
(N.J./State)

... passed resolutions to prevent the relocation of prisoners within their borders. On Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned Congress that detainees could fuel terrorism if they are transferred ...

19. Obama seeks to block release of detainee abuse photos
(U.S./Nation)

BY KENT KLEIN VOA NEWS WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to block the release of photographs that show American military personnel abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...

20. Republicans: Closing Guantanamo 'dangerous'
(U.S./Nation)

... state of Missouri said the president has no plan for where to send the detainees when the facility is closed. "While President Obama has no plan for what to do with these killers, he has pledged to close ...