Comments on: Deja Vu & the Divine Right of Kings

By: admin

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:42:40 +0000

Here's a link to an editorial posted Friday, September 5 2009 by the Philadelphia Enquirer. The article, by Doug Bandow, former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and a fellow in the Cato Institute, states that "Holder should investigate policy-makers, not just the CIA."

And here's a related news item from the Wyoming Tribune, covering a ruling which allows people wrongfully detained under the material witness act to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft. According to the article, "the claims ... plausibly suggest Ashcroft purposely used the material witness statute to detain suspects whom he wished to investigate and detain preventively."

More interesting and relevant to this blog post is Ashcrofts request for dismissal, claiming "absolute immunity" from the lawsuit "because his position at the Department of Justice was prosecutorial."

By: admin

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:13:31 +0000

On Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, Attorney General Erik Holder appointed prosecutor John Durham special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's torture program. Here are some links: A Google News search on John Durham. A news search on the appointment. And a search on Cheney's reaction.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:24:19 +0000

Update 7/12/09: Cheney ordered CIA to conceal anti-terrorism program from Congress; Feinstein calls this a clear violation of the law. Here’s a Google search link: http://tinyurl.com/l2xnob

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh refers to the project as an “Executive Assassination Ring” in a recent article at Alternet written by Eric Black. Link here: http://tinyurl.com/l6zf2j

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