Beyond Padilla terror case, huge legal issues
"This is the hallmark of an authoritarian state," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official and former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p01s08-usju.html
How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case
Among the obstacles: responding to a filing he can't see and writing a brief with none of his notes at hand.
http://tinyurl.com/2zj79v
A verdict on Padilla and the US
In short, the US military used terror - Padilla had little or no human contact for more than three years - to fight terror. Many mental health experts say his severe seclusion in a Navy brig impaired his thinking. A judge confirmed the disability but let the case continue.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p08s02-comv.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=authoritarian+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Johnson
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p01s08-usju.html
How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case
Among the obstacles: responding to a filing he can't see and writing a brief with none of his notes at hand.
http://tinyurl.com/2zj79v
A verdict on Padilla and the US
In short, the US military used terror - Padilla had little or no human contact for more than three years - to fight terror. Many mental health experts say his severe seclusion in a Navy brig impaired his thinking. A judge confirmed the disability but let the case continue.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p08s02-comv.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=authoritarian+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Johnson
rudkla - 16. Aug, 10:00
