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Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » FISA: Heritage’s Misleading Hyperbole And The Rule Of Law

tw3k — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:55:31 PST

National security must be balanced against civil liberties concerns. Otherwise, we are merely another police state whose allegience is to the rampant whims of a unilateral executive rather than the steady application of the rule of law.

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Tags: FISA, Heritage Foundation, Bruce Fein, avid Kris, Christopher Pyle

Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure - Wikileaks

tw3k — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:20:24 PST

Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) standard operating procedures (SOP) for Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay prison). This is the primary document for the operation of Guantanamo bay, including the securing and treatment of detainees. The document is extensive and includes, in addition to text various forms, identity cards and even Muslim burial instructions. It is signed by Major General Miller, who Donald Rumsfeld later sent to Abu Ghraib to "Gitmoize it".

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Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, Major General Miller, Abu Ghraib, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, FIDH, Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR, ECCHR, LDH, war crime, bush, freedom

blog.tw3k: Former U.S. Intelligence Officers’ request regarding the Nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General

tw3k — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:20:49 PST

Please do the right thing and grant the request of the 24 former Intelligence officers and hold off on bringing Mukasey’s nomination to the Senate floor until he is able to say, unequivocally that waterboarding is torture and illegal, even in the face of national security. Thank you for your attention and the consideration you will give to these intelligence officers.

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Tags: Schumer, Feinstein, Mukasey, Attorney General, bush, freedom

TORTURE MEMORANDUM

tw3k — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:27:51 PST

We can say it no better than four retired judge advocates general (two admirals and two generals) who wrote you over the weekend, saying: “Waterboarding is inhumane, it is torture, and it is illegal.”

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Tags: waterboarding, torture, Schumer, Senator Feinstein, Senator Leahy, Spector, Mukasey, Bush, Freedom

Senator Dianne Feinstein, California Must Vote No to Torture

tw3k — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:58:23 PST

United States Senator Dianne Feinstein, California Dianne Feinstein, Feinstein, torture, freedom, bush, Michael Mukasey , Mukasey , U.S. Attorney General

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Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Feinstein, torture, freedom, bush, Michael Mukasey, Mukasey, U.S. Attorney General

Protest Feinstein's Pro-Torture Nomination! Mon 2:30 -3:30 Code Pink

tw3k — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:22:22 PST

Protest Feinstein's Pro-Torture Nomination! Mon 2:30 -3:30 Code Pink Protest Michael Mukasey's Nomination for U.S. Attorney General

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Tags: Protest, Michael Mukasey, Mukasey, Nomination, U.S. Attorney General, Feinstein, Torture, freedom, bush

Patrick Fitzgerald's Speech to the Better Government Association

tw3k — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:29:27 PDT

Great speech by Fitzgerald on the role of prosecutors, government and the public.

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Tags: Patrick Fitzgerald, Speech, Better Government Association, fitz, prosecutors, government, public

News & Culture in CA | Dianne Feinstein: A Question of Ethics

tw3k — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:20:06 PDT

Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms

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Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Feinstein, Senate Rules Committee, MILCON, Richard C. Blum, Blum, conflict of interest, iraq, War on Terror, war, terror

The TPM DOCUMENT COLLECTION - Letter from Senate Judiciary Committee to Michael Mukasey re: waterboarding

tw3k — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:01:19 PDT

Letter from Senate Judiciary Committee to Michael Mukasey re: waterboarding 10-23-2007

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Tags: bush, freedom, torture, Mukasey, waterboarding, Durbin, Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Cardin, Whitehouse

YouTube - For Bush's Amusement

tw3k — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:34:37 PDT

Rep. Pete Stark has been ridiculed over his statements about Bush and the Iraq War. How amused is Bush over the war?

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Tags: bush, freedom, Rep. Pete Stark, Stark, speech

An open letter to Karen Hughes on torture | Salon.com

tw3k — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:12:14 PDT

An open letter to Karen Hughes: Your duty is to defend America's reputation in the world. To do so, you must persuade the Bush administration to renounce its abhorrent and hypocritical policy on torture.

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Tags: Karen Hughes, Hughes, Sidney Blumenthal, Blumenthal, torture, Taxi to the Dark Side, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Gonzales, Bush, Jack Goldsmith, Goldsmith, David Addington, Addington, Vice President Cheney, Cheney

I Do Believe I Smell a PR Campaign

tw3k — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:48:21 PDT

AT&T wants something from you. They want immunity from prosecution for breaking existing laws on customer privacy.

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Tags: AT&T, net neutrality, bandwidth, freedom, freedom of speech, iPhone, bush

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » The Utter Corruption of the US Telecom Industry

tw3k — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:01:03 PDT

AT&T Verizon Free Market

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Tags: AT&T, Verizon, Free Market, bush

IRAQ: Fear among refugees as cholera crosses border | Gorilla’s Guides

tw3k — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:55:18 PDT

BAGHDAD, 7 October 2007 (IRIN) - Despite the efforts of the Iraqi government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to contain a recent cholera outbreak, the disease has already spread to half of the country and has also crossed the border into Iran, according to WHO and Iranian authorities. contribute to the Red Cross, Red Crescent to help http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp?navid=01 (Red Cross, Red Crescent).

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Tags: cholera, iraq, war on terror, bush

The Next Hurrah: Historic Compartmentalization

tw3k — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:01:19 PDT

DNI McConnell has no idea what he asking for IRT retroactive immunity.

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Tags: NSA, AT&T, DNI, Freedom, bush, warrantless, wiretapping, warrantless wiretapping

Infantile Nation - by Pat Buchanan

tw3k — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:39:05 PDT

Buchanan on diplomacy

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Tags: Buchanan, diplomacy, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Bush

Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: “When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?”

tw3k — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:42:57 PDT

Shuster examines Rep. Blackburn's priorities.

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Tags: Shuster, Rep. Blackburn, GOP, Family Values

Iraq War Casualty Pictures

tw3k — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:19:11 PDT

Casualty Pictures from the 2003 invasion of Iraq

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Tags: bush, gop, family values, freedom, iraq

Intelligence Under the Law

tw3k — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:56:46 PDT

Intelligence Under the Law by James B. Comey

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Tags: Comey, doj, Intelligence, Law

Home | Beyond Delay

tw3k — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:24:38 PDT

The 22 most corrupt members of congress.

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Tags: bush, congress, corruption

YouTube - DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: "A Series of Tubes"

tw3k — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:27:18 PDT

Paul Holcomb from The Bold Headed Broadcast mixed this techno version of Ted Stevens' now infamous "Series Of Tubes" speech and Gavin (that is me) from 13ton...

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Tags: tubes, stevens, veco

Committee on Homeland Security

tw3k — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:28:05 PDT

DHS, NAO, bush, freedom

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Congress Asks Archive to Testify About Overclassification of Records

tw3k — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:16:27 PDT

nsa, bush, freedom

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American Civil Liberties Union : Government Opposition to ACLU Motion to Unseal

tw3k — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:41:35 PDT

Read the PDF. Department of Justice's Opposition to ACLU's Motion for Release of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Records.

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Tags: aclu, fisa, doj, surveillance

A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket

tw3k — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:05:16 PDT

html, css, webkit, mobile

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Your Home on Ma.gnolia

tw3k — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:25:17 PDT

How do I hide my bookmarks on the front page?

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Dad Playing Piano

tw3k — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:36:10 PDT

Dad Playing Piano, the latter-half is great :D

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Tags: Dad Playing Piano, Dad, Playing, Piano, Music

Big Ball of Mud

tw3k — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:43:53 PDT

While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD

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