MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. The writing is on the wall.
- Act Would OK Snail Mail Searches
- US acting like Star Chamber, says judge The government has ruled that Hamdi has no right to see a lawyer, but Robert Doumar, a US district judge, said he could find no precedent “of any kind in any court” for the decision, and compared the government’s behaviour to that of 15th century English monarchs, laying down the law through the secret hearings of the Star Chamber.
- Bush ‘using language of Hitler’
- US ‘considers assassination squads’ A must read. Disgusting.
- US may seize Arab airports by force to attack Iraq: report
- Ashcroft Plans Camps for Dissidents
- Hapless Military Personnel Are Ordered to Use Plastic, Get Dunned by the Pentagon
- Concocted by Congress in 1998, the GTC was designed to privatize the accounting of federal travel expenses and touted to save taxpayer money. (It also reaps huge fees by the financial conglomerates that issue the cards.) It works like this: Servicepeople are ordered to apply for personal GTCs—interest-free credit cards issued exclusively by the Bank of America. Instead of requesting vouchers or getting cash to pay for travel expenses, servicepeople pay up front with the their own GTC cards—essentially floating interest-free loans to the government. As a result, they have to submit expense reports and wait for reimbursements.
Like I’ve said before, if you join the military kiss your self-respect goodbye.
- US Looks at Acceptance of Torture Unbelievable.
- The U.S. government, while denying it is doing anything wrong in having prisoners held elsewhere, last month made a decision to abstain from the United Nations vote to strengthen the U.N. convention against torture. …
U.S. officials have certainly taken into account, and sometimes, taken advantage of the more persuasive interrogation methods offered by countries with poor human rights records. Saudi national and alleged top al Qaeda official Abu Zubair was arrested in Morocco in June, but U.S. officials have been in no hurry to bring him to the United States, reported McWethy — in part because Moroccan authorities can use methods that would not be allowed under U.S. law.