Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The Rogue Nation: USA

If there is still any question about America heading in the wrong direction ...

Questions and Answers: U.S. Detainees Disappeared into Secret Prisons: Illegal under Domestic and International Law
Illegal under Domestic and International Law: The United States is holding an unknown number of terrorism suspects in secret overseas locations, and refusing either to acknowledge the detentions or to give information on the fate or the whereabouts of these detainees. These detainees have been held incommunicado, without trial, some for as many as four years. Some of the detainees are reported to have been tortured in custody.
U.S. Opposes Litany of Global Treaties in 2005
The list of UN treaties that Washington opposes goes on and on. US leaders continue to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Unable to End 'Unlawful' Detention, Judge Says

Ray McGovern: Cheney the Bully; Rockefeller the Coward
Will a Republican Senate Save the Republic? I'll say this for Vice President Dick Cheney: he puts it right out there, whether it is trying to ensure legal protection for those torturing prisoners, or insisting-as he did on Tuesday-that a wartime president "needs to have his powers unimpaired."
U.S. Operated Secret �Dark Prison�in Kabul - Human Rights Watch
Accounts from detainees at Guantánamo reveal that the United States as recently as last year operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were subjected to torture and other mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said.
What everyone should know about Jose Padilla���
The constitution is the last flimsy obstacle between Bush and absolute power. That is why the administration has persisted for nearly 4 years in its case against Jose Padilla. The Padilla case has nothing to do with Al Qaida, “dirty bombers” or terrorism. These are simply the empty diversions that conceal the administration’s real intention; to remove the final impediment to the supreme authority of the executive.
US Embassy Close to Admitting Syria Rendition Flight
"The US embassy in London was forced to issue a correction yesterday to an interview given by the ambassador, Robert Tuttle, in which he claimed America would not fly suspected terrorists to Syria, which has one of the worst torture records in the Middle East. A statement acknowledged media reports of a suspect taken from the US to Syria."
The Pentagon Breaks the Law
The National Security Agency story has pushed military spying on anti-war groups off the front pages, and the Pentagon appears to have seized upon administrative error to explain away its slide into domestic spying.
General gave OK for Able Danger:
"Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was the military's top commander during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confirmed that four years before the tragedy he authorized a secret computer data-mining initiative to track down Osama bin Laden and operatives in the fugitive terrorist's al-Qaida network.

In his first public comments on the initiative, which some former intelligence officers now say was code-named Able Danger, Shelton also confirmed that he received two briefings on the clandestine mission -- both well before the Sept. 11 attacks."
US Planning Attack Against Iran

New Book Reveals Secret War Operations

CLICK TO LISTEN: Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a "Police State"
Amy Goodman
Democracy Now
"Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, 'The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state.'"
Noam Chomsky: The Last Word - A Tale of Two Quagmires
"The Bush administration has succeeded in making the United States one of the most feared and hated countries in the world. The talent of these guys is unbelievable. They have even succeeded at alienating Canada. I mean, that takes genius, literally."
Briton Offers Documents on Torture
London - A former British ambassador has published government documents he says prove that Britain knowingly received intelligence extracted under torture from prisoners in Uzbekistan.
Willy Peter
The U.S. is again using white phosphorus, a chemical munition known more commonly in the military as Willy Peter.

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