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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 |
BlackCommentator: "The first Black female U.S. Secretary of State will inevitably preside over a general and dramatic decline in American influence in the world, a process that accelerates with each passing week. So bizarre is American behavior - so disconnected from objective facts and from international conversation and evolving human standards of conduct - that Condoleezza Rice cannot escape becoming a caricature of diplomacy."
AOL: "Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects have the constitutional right to pursue lawsuits challenging their imprisonment, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a defeat for the Bush administration that struck down how the U.S. military reviewed their cases.
The prisoners at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the constitutional right not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law, U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green said.
She ruled that the special military tribunals to determine the status of each Guantanamo detainee as an 'enemy combatant' violated the constitutional protection of a fair hearing. Such a designation allows the government to hold the suspects indefinitely.
In addition to those constitutional defects applying to all the cases, Green also cited problems with the tribunals relying on statements possibly obtained by torture or coercion, and by using a vague and overly broad definition of enemy combatant."
Guardian: "The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found."
CNewsCanada: "The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering U.S. powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
The move is intended to prevent the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from seeing sensitive Canadian data the government supplies to American firms doing business with federal departments in Ottawa."
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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