A ‘Chilling Effect’ on Journalism

The U.S. government’s aggressive prosecution of leaks and efforts to control information are having a chilling effect on journalists and government whistle-blowers,

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Last Chance to Stop Indefinite Detention of Americans

The third and final round of battle to get courts to strike down the NDAA, a law that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities

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Obama Wins Back Right to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens

The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the NDAA

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New Light Shed on CIA’s Rendition Program

A groundbreaking research project has mapped the US government’s global kidnap and secret detention programme, shedding unprecedented light on one of the most controversial secret operations of recent years

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Gitmo Guards Told Prisoners Are Not Human [Video]

One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT

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Shocking, Degrading and Inhumane…

“I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.”

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‘Illegal we do immediately; unconstitutional takes a little longer’ - Former U.S. Secretary of State

WikiLeaks has published the ‘Kissinger Cables’: its largest public release of documents in nearly a year, totaling some 1.7 million classified files, including information on the US’s secret diplomatic history

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Filibustered

Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the U.S. Senate just before noon Wednesday and vowed to stay there “at length” in order to filibuster John O. Brennan, whom President Obama has nominated to be the next CIA director

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ACLU Launches National Investigation Into Police Militarization

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local police agencies requesting information about their SWAT teams

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The President’s ‘Executive’ Death Warrants

Don’t Americans have “the right to know when their government believes it’s allowed to kill them”? As Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., put it last week, you’d think that’s “not too much to ask.”

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