The Justice Department and the CIA announced yesterday that they have started a preliminary inquiry into the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes that depicted harsh interrogation of two terrorism...
Democracy Now! Journalist Amy Goodman, and two of her producers will receive $100,000 in a settlement over their arrests during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Discussion of the claims by detained terrorist suspects that they were given mind-altering substances in order to induce confessions, along with CIA and Defense Department responses.
Rachel Meeropol, Senior staff attorney with the center for constitutional rights, dives into two big cases surrounding both the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and solitary confinement.
A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the National Security Agency in New York, claiming that the U.S. illegally spied on 16 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay...
The fight for detainees is costly and time consuming for Wilmer Hale law firm, part of the defense coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights. You can access the article here .
" Secret midnight flights and a flurry of prisoner releases. We’ll look at the new push to shut down the prison at Guantanamo. ..." Listen to the full broadcast here .
...But the NYPD’s response to public records requests by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights belies the chief’s assertions. ... Read the full piece here.
... Prison life here is an unmanned, evil environment where the prey play the part and the vulnerable succumb. But what's happening now is disgusting. ... Read the full piece here .
