August 20, 2009
In an article by Mark Mazzetti in yesterday's New York Times it was reported that the secret program that current C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta learned about, terminated, and revealed to Congress in June of 2009 was a Bush administration plan to use the Blackwater private security firm to help assassinate al-Qaeda leaders.
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May 22, 2009
Yesterday evening Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, strongly criticized President Obama's plans to detain prisoners in the war against al-Qaeda and to try persons accused of war crimes in military courts. Ratner stated that military commissions are used only during or after a "real war" and that people may not [...]
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