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Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
By Marjorie Cohn | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former
Read More »War Criminals Seek Safe Haven With Lib Dems
By Craig Murray | Apparently some of the Blairite right of New Labour are in talks with Paddy Pantsdown over the possibility of defecting to the Lib Dems. As the Blairite right is well
Read More »Jordan’s human-rights watchdog reports torture
Amman- The 2008 report released Saturday by Jordan’s state- funded National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) found continued ‘torture’ at Jordanian jails and a retreat in public freedoms. Anti-torture efforts in Jordan are still
Read More »MP angered by Street View ‘invasion’
By Ed O’Mara | CITY MP Stewart Jackson has accused “creepy” global internet giant Google of an unacceptable invasion of privacy after its Street View cameras arrived in the city. The US company is
Read More »Secret Black Box Probe Will Monitor Web Activity
SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, of a ministerial climbdown over public surveillance.
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