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McCarthyism Comes to Iraq: Dententions of Those Accused of "Iran Connection" on the Rise

Locals claim the U.S. military had been using members of the Mehdi Army to carry out attacks on Sunnis in Baghdad.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/69343/


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The new McCarthyism

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

03/03/10

The ‘Gitmo Nine’ aren’t terrorists. They weren’t captured fighting for the Taliban. They’ve made no attempts to kill Americans. They haven’t declared war on the United States, nor have they joined any group that has. The ‘Gitmo Nine’ are lawyers working in the Department of Justice who fought the Bush administration’s treatment of suspected terrorists as unconstitutional. Now, conservatives are portraying them as agents of the enemy…. The attorneys who challenged the Bush administration’s national-security policies saw themselves as fulfilling their legal obligations by fighting an unconstitutional power grab. At heart, this was a disagreement over process: Should people accused of terrorism be afforded the same human rights and due process protections as anyone else in American custody?

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_new_mccarthyism


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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