Court Faults Army Corps In Katrina Levee Breaches

By: bmaz Sunday November 22, 2009 7:15 pm

Late last Wednesday, there was a blockbuster court ruling that got lost in the healthcare and oversight hearing onslaught. However, the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far reaching ramifications.

Who’s Afraid of a Fair Trial?

By: Cynthia Kouril Sunday November 22, 2009 4:00 pm

The Washington Post's Michael Gerson wrote the most cowardly chickenhawk op-ed I have seen in a long time. Perhaps he's really afraid a fair trial will reveal more than KSM's criminality?

Leak Blames Ousted Counsel Craig for Dawn Johnsen’s Stalled Confirmation

By: emptywheel Tuesday November 17, 2009 7:01 am

Marc Ambinder reports that it wasn't national security differences that did Greg Craig in (even though he provides evidence of that), it was Craig's inability to get people confirmed by the Senate.

Yoo’s Nightmare: A Trial Showing Torture was Unnecessary

By: emptywheel Monday November 16, 2009 4:10 pm

John Yoo has a panicked op-ed in the WSJ trying to claim his torture will be exposed at the KSM trial. He ought to be worried, instead, that they'll manage to do the whole thing without torture.

Isikoff Pops the Question: Newsweek Reporter asks Holder About Torture

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 9:54 am

Michael Isikoff asked one of the key questions about the conduct of KSM's trial in a civilian court: whether or not he would be able to enter evidence of his torture into the trial. Holder basically answered--though he didn't say it explicitly--that the charges and the prosecutions evidence will be designed such that the evidence of KSM's torture will not be directly relevant.

Some Alleged 9/11 Plotters to be Tried in SDNY, Storehouse of Evidence Untainted by Torture

By: Cynthia Kouril Friday November 13, 2009 7:17 am

I’m thinking that the decision to try it here has mostly to do with all that lovely stockpile of non GITMO tainted evidence

Fort Hood Shooter’s Trial May Shed Light on NSA/CIA Domestic Spying

By: Cynthia Kouril Tuesday November 10, 2009 3:00 pm

Will the greater discovery rights afforded to defendants in military criminal trials allow the Fort Hood shooter defense to shed light on CIA/NSA domestic spying?

Prosecutors Attack Innocence Project Journalism Students

By: bmaz Sunday October 25, 2009 4:00 pm

Cook County Illinois is the gift that keeps on giving. From the aggressive G-Men of the Roaring Twenties to the Red Squads to the original Richard Daley Machine to the Burge Torture Scandals, Chicago and Cook County have a certain reputation for political corruption, police brutality and and prosecutorial misconduct.
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