Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties

The case that was shunned by the Supreme Court on Monday, Saleh v. Titan Corporation, was an important attempt to extend accountability from the military to the contractors who make up such a huge part of America’s post-9/11 war machine, and who, unlike their official military counterparts, appear to be as much beyond the law as the senior administration officials — and their lawyers — who implemented, approved and oversaw every aspect of the “War on Terror” that should have shocked the conscience — involving torture, “extraordinary rendition,” secret prisons and the miseries of arbitrary detention at Guantánamo. As Human Rights First explained, “Army investigations implicated at least five private contractors in similar crimes,” although “no contractor was ever charged.”
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100 organizations join the US Campaign in thanking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for declining an invitation to visit Israel in coordination with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Consulate of New York.
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The U.S.Senate Intelligence Committee met to consider worries that the Justice Department’s interpretation of a section of the Patriot Act — a section President Obama once objected to — is overly broad…
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The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.
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Jospeh Dana, an Israeli-American journalist with the Nation, will be on board a US ship as part of the Freedom Flotilla which is to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip
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