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Federal Judge Mulls Sanctions Against CIA in Tape Destruction Case
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyU.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who has never suffered fools gladly anyway, is angry -- at federal lawyers, at the Central Intelligence Agency, and at pretty much anyone else he believes has played him for a patsy in the years-long saga involving the improper destruction of CIA videotapes of post-9/11 interrogation sessions involving terror-law detainees. The judge said as much last Thursday at a federal court hearing in a civil contempt case brought against the CIA by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU is going after the agency, and is so far succeeding, because CIA ...
Greek Police Round Up Terror Suspects
By Anthee Carassava - AOL News
ATHENS, Greece (Dec. 4) -- Greek police on Saturday detained a batch of terrorism suspects following a flurry of raids and the discovery of a large weapons cache in a small garage on the outskirts of Athens. Authorities in Athens said police were probing at least a dozen suspected hideouts across the greater Athens area as part of a terrorism crackdown that kicked off early Saturday. Greek media reported that at least five terror suspects had been detained during the operation but authorities remained tight-lipped. "This is just the start of the operation," Greece's National Police ...
No Charges Will Be Filed in Destruction of CIA Tapes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 9) -- A special prosecutor cleared the CIA's former top clandestine officer and others Tuesday of any charges for destroying agency videotapes showing waterboarding of terror suspects, but he continued an investigation into whether the harsh questioning went beyond legal boundaries. The decision not to prosecute anyone in the videotape destruction came five years to the day after the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being subjected to waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning. The deadline for prosecuting ...
Did Carl Paladino Really Say 'F--- Him' About Eric Holder? [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- Another day, another YouTube-generated headache for Carl Paladino. In footage obtained by Jeremy Jacobs of National Journal's Hotline OnCall, the following video, taken at a town hall meeting on March 26 in Tappan, N.Y., appears to portray the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate uttering the phrase "F--- him" in response to a question regarding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the suggestion to hold trials for terrorists in Manhattan. "If you were the chief executive of New York, what would your response be to the attorney general of the United States deciding ...
'Canadian Idol' Contestant Arrested on Terror Charges
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- Terror may or may not have a face, but it certainly has a pitch -- and an off-key one at that. A man arrested today as part of a round-up of alleged Islamic terrorists in Canada tried -- and spectacularly failed -- to make the grade as a performer on the reality talent show "Canadian Idol," according to a report by the Toronto Star. The show is a clone of the popular, similarly named program in the U.S., which is itself a spin-off of the British "Pop Idol." In 2008, Khurram Syed Sher, a Canadian physician of Pakistani origin, then 26 years old, high-kicked and moon-walked his ...
Norway Arrests 3 Suspects in al-Qaida Conspiracy
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 8) -- Police in Norway today arrested three men on suspicion of having links to an international al-Qaida conspiracy that was plotting attacks in the U.S., Britain and Norway. The men had been under surveillance for over a year, Der Spiegel said. Two were arrested in Oslo; the other was arrested after being detained on a visit to Germany. Norwegian authorities suspect the trio of plotting a major attack similar to the planned strike against the New York City subway that was foiled last year. The suspects represent "one node" in a larger terrorist network that includes operatives in ...
Supreme Court's Miranda Rights Ruling Means It's Not Enough to Just Remain Silent
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyBeing arrested in the U.S. comes with a few guarantees designed to protect the suspect, chief among them being the so-called "Miranda rights," or more appropriately, "Miranda warning," which generally reads: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense. Today, the Supreme Court made a historic addendum to this fundamental principle, ruling 5-4 that ...
Attorney General Eric Holder Begins Criminal Investigation After Report Cites U.S. Torture
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyWith the release of a graphic report describing the "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane" treatment of U.S. detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to investigate whether CIA interrogators and contractors violated the law by using brutal tactics to pry information from prisoners. ...
Bringing Terror Home, Where it Already Lives
By David Knowles - Politics DailySomehow lost in the current debate about whether to shutter Guantanamo Bay, formally try its residents in U.S. Courts, and lock the majority of them away in Super Max detention centers, is the fact that right now, at this very moment, our justice system is dealing quite nicely with some very frightening terrorists who tried to blow up a New York synagogues and down military aircraft with Stinger surface to air missiles. Indeed, the argument that we will somehow endanger the public if the detainees in Guantanamo set foot in the U.S. is made all the more silly when you consider that past ...
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