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Jimmy Carter: U.S. Has ‘A Cruel and Unusual Record’

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“Recent legislation has made legal the president’s right to detain a person indefinitely on suspicion of affiliation with terrorist organizations or ‘associated forces,’ a broad, vague power that can be abused without meaningful oversight from the courts or Congress. In addition to American citizens’ being targeted for assassination or indefinite detention, recent laws have canceled the restraints in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to allow unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/americas-shameful-human-rights-record.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&

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Missouri threatens return of gas chambers for death row inmates

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“The state of Missouri is threatening to resurrect the use of the gas chamber for executions, as an alternative to its dwindling supply of lethal-injection drugs.  Drugs companies in America, Europe and Asia have refused on ethical grounds to sell their products to corrections departments, and the European Commission has imposed tough restrictions on the export of anaesthetics to the US. As supplies became harder to procure, Missouri last year became the only state in the nation to turn to an execution protocol that used just one lethal injection, of the anaesthetic propofol in doses 15 times stronger than in usual surgical procedures.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/05/missouri-threatens-return-of-gas-chambers-for-death-row-inmates/

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Germany prepares to charge UK and US intelligence over fresh bugging allegations

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“Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s office said it was preparing to bring charges against British and US intelligence today amid fresh allegations that the services spied far more extensively than thought on German phone and internet traffic and bugged European Union offices in America. The leak from fugitive ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden claimed that the NSA tapped into half a billion German phone calls, emails and SMS messages each month. Reports last week revealed extensive tapping of German phone and internet traffic by British intelligence under its so-called Tempora programme. The information was said to be shared with the NSA.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-prepares-to-charge-uk-and-us-intelligence-over-fresh-bugging-allegations-8680249.html

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Germany and France Demand to Know Why They Were Being Spied On

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“Members of the European Union are quite upset because their relationship with the U.S. is supposed cozier than the frosty relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Germany and France seem really miffed over this whole spying deal. They thought they were exempt from surveillance because they are allies at the end of the day. ‘These facts, if confirmed, would be totally unacceptable,’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius told Le Monde. ‘We expect the U.S. authorities to stand up as soon as possible the legitimate concerns raised by the revelations of the press.’ German politicians are also demanding an explanation from the U.S.”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/06/germany-and-france-demand-know-why-they-were-being-spied/66723/

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Charles A. Burris: War Crimes, the Holocaust, and Today’s National Security State

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“Vocal defenders of the National Security State loudly proclaim that such extra-constitutional intrusions into the privacy of Americans are justified on the grounds of ‘national security’ because we are at total war with Radical Islam and its alleged supporters. 9/11 changed everything. The rule of law and constitutional safeguards are to be suspended during this national emergency. The Constitution is not a ‘suicide pact.’ Survival of the state is the only thing that counts. These are precisely the very arguments used by Otto Olendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, and his fellow defendants in their Nuremberg War Crime Trials following World War Two.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/burris/burris39.1.html

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Bill Ayers: Obama should be put on trial for war crimes

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“Radical anti-war revolutionary turned education advocate Bill Ayers said Tuesday he believed President Barack Obama should be charged with war crimes. Ayers, who co-founded the far left revolutionary Weather Underground group, told Tom Bevan and Charlie Stone of Real Clear Politics that Obama’s use of targeted drone strikes was ‘absolutely’ a form of terrorism. ‘Every president in this century should be put on trial for war crimes,’ he said. ‘Absolutely. Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And yes, I think these are war crimes. I think they’re acts of terror.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/18/bill-ayers-obama-should-be-put-on-trial-for-war-crimes/

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EU warns Obama of ‘grave consequences’ facing Europeans from NSA intel scandal

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“Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, wrote a letter on Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder demanding ‘swift and concrete’ answers about the spy scheme when they meet in Dublin on Friday. ‘Programmes such as PRISM and the laws on the basis of which such programmes are authorised could have grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens,’ she wrote. Her questions to Holder include whether EU citizens were targeted by the US programmes, whether Europeans would be able find out whether their data has been accessed, and whether they would be treated similarly to US nationals in such cases.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/12/eu-warns-obama-of-grave-consequences-from-nsa-intel-scandal/

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EU wants privacy guarantees from U.S. amid PRISM crisis

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“The EU said Tuesday it will seek a strong commitment from the United States to respect the rights of European citizens, following revelations that Washington is running a worldwide Internet surveillance programme. Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, ‘will raise the issue with force and determination’ at a meeting in Dublin on Friday with US officials, the bloc’s Health Commissioner Tonio Borg said. The US spy programmes, revealed by The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers, ‘potentially endanger the fundamental right of privacy and the data protection of EU citizens,’ Borg said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/11/eu-wants-privacy-guarantees-from-u-s-amid-prism-crisis/

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NSA spying allegations mean U.S. could provide ‘virtually unlimited’ info on citizens to allies

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“Britain’s foreign secretary took to television on Sunday to reassure Britons that London’s own spies had not circumvented laws restricting their own activity by obtaining information collected by Washington. In Germany, sensitive to decades of snooping by East German Stasi secret police, the opposition said Chancellor Angela Merkel should do more to protect Germans from U.S. spying and demand answers when President Barack Obama visits this month. In Australia, a government source said the U.S. revelations could make it more difficult to pass a law allowing the government to access Internet data at home.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/10/nsa-spying-allegations-mean-u-s-could-provide-virtually-unlimited-info-on-citizens-to-allies/

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Supreme Court affirms Rumsfeld’s immunity from torture lawsuits

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“U.S. military officials who engaged in ordering or carrying out the torture of individuals in custody can now rely upon an across-the-board legal defense that protects them from being sued for committing what amounts to an international crime, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling on Monday. The court affirmed an earlier ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in 2012 that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could not be sued for personally approving torture techniques used against prisoners held during the Bush administration’s terror war.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/10/supreme-court-affirms-rumsfelds-immunity-from-torture-lawsuits/

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