Rendition Isn't Fiction
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/9caeba8ea40c29f5?hl=en
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Fallibility + Unchecked Power = Trouble
Pioneer Press
by Peter Erlinder
At the same time the House and Senate are reconsidering the Bush administration’s claim that it needs the power to tap all foreign phone calls without asking a court to issue a warrant, the American people got concrete evidence why limits on executive-branch power are built into the Constitution. This month, the reality-based film ‘Rendition,’ in which an innocent person is seized in the U.S. and tortured by a friendly government on the order of a well-meaning intelligence expert played by Meryl Streep, was released just days before Congress publicly apologized for the real-life ‘rendition’ and torture of a Canadian citizen of Middle-Eastern descent, based on bad information. Just like the movie...
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_7269928
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
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Fallibility + Unchecked Power = Trouble
Pioneer Press
by Peter Erlinder
At the same time the House and Senate are reconsidering the Bush administration’s claim that it needs the power to tap all foreign phone calls without asking a court to issue a warrant, the American people got concrete evidence why limits on executive-branch power are built into the Constitution. This month, the reality-based film ‘Rendition,’ in which an innocent person is seized in the U.S. and tortured by a friendly government on the order of a well-meaning intelligence expert played by Meryl Streep, was released just days before Congress publicly apologized for the real-life ‘rendition’ and torture of a Canadian citizen of Middle-Eastern descent, based on bad information. Just like the movie...
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_7269928
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
rudkla - 20. Okt, 10:47
