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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:53:08 -0800 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:53:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38012/An%2DExecutive%2DOrder%2DAlong%2DTortures%2DPath <a href="http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/FBI.121504.4940_4941.pdf" title="''I have been told that all interrogation techniques previously authorized by the Executive Order are still on the table but that certain techniques can only be used if very high-level authority is granted.''"><small>Request for guidance regarding the OGC's EC regarding detainee abuse, referring to “interrogation techniques made lawful” by the “President's Executive Order.”</small></a> comes from <a href="http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/">Records Released in Response to Torture FOIA Request</a>. <br><a href="http://www.aclu.org/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=17216&c=206" title="The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and ''sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc.'' The ACLU is urging the White House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and immediately to release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004 from ''On Scene Commander--Baghdad'' to a handful of senior FBI officials, notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques that the President is said to have authorized. ">Smoking Gun ?</a> asks the ACLU--or just another stepping stone from <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6733558/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/" title="In a Jan. 25, 2002, memo to Bush, Gonzales said the new war on terror ''renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners.'' Some State Department lawyers charge that Gonzales misrepresented so many legal considerations and facts (including hard conclusions by State's Southeast Asia bureau about the nature of the Taliban) that one lawyer considers the memo to be ''an ethical breach.'' In response, a senior White House official says Gonzales's memo was only a ''draft'' and just one part of an extensive decision-making process in which all views were aired.">Torture's Path</a> ? As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/politics/16jag.html?ei=5090&en=5016ee06544b6bc4&ex=1260939600&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position=" title="Several former high-ranking military lawyers say they are discussing ways to oppose President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general, asserting that Gonzales's supervision of legal memorandums that appeared to sanction harsh treatment of detainees, even torture, showed unsound legal judgment.">Ex-Military Lawyers Object to Bush Cabinet Nominee</a>, and in <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/12/17/memo/print.html" title="Renewed exposure of prisoner abuse, torture and even murder by American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan is widening already deep divisions between the Pentagon and the intelligence community -- and creating an untenable situation for Donald Rumsfeld, the beleaguered secretary of defense. A recently disclosed FBI memo indicates that ''marching orders'' to abandon traditional interrogation methods came from the defense secretary himself. In recent days, a coalition of human rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights has brought new cases of abuse to public attention. Using the Freedom of Information Act, they have pried thousands of pages of previously secret documents from the Defense Department and other agencies.">Torture begins at the top</a>, Joe Conason suggests that a recently disclosed FBI memo indicates that "marching orders" to abandon traditional interrogation methods came from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld himself and all the while <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5083701-110481,00.html" title="Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guant&#0225;namo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the Guardian. The claims by Martin Mubanga, from London, are the latest to surface from the prison where the US holds 550 Muslim men it claims are terrorists in conditions that have sparked worldwide condemnation. ">Guant&#0225;namo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton</a>. (more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.38012 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:53:08 -0800 AbuGhraib ACLU AlbertoGonzales DonaldRumsfeld ExecutiveOrder FOIA FreedomOfInformationAct GeorgeWBush GWOT Interrogation Iraq IraqWar NewYorkTimes NYTimes Torture USPresident War y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/10747/ <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010923/ts/attack_dc_169.html">Blacklist!</a> Bush is expected to issue an executive order labeling certain people as "terrorists", which will lock up their assets and generally make life miserable. Who needs checks and balances or due process? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.10747 Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:48:39 -0800 blacklist brokenlink Bush deadlink executiveorder GeorgeWBush terror terrorism terrorist jgilliam