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ACLU Comment on Leaked Targeted Killing Documents NEW YORK, October 15, 2015 — The Intercept released documents today showing that the government’s targeted killing operations are rife with intelligence shortcomings and frequent civilian casualties. The papers also reveal that the reality of the operations is far from the public picture presented by the government....
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 4:39pm PDT
ACLU Sues Psychologists Who Designed and Ran CIA Torture Program SPOKANE, Wash., October 13, 2015 — Three former Central Intelligence Agency prisoners represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today against the two psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA’s torture program....
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 4:35pm PDT
The blood of the innocents The first drone strike outside of a declared war zone happened in November of 2002 in Yemen. And in that strike, it was a CIA operation, with the military, and the whole thing was coordinated out of a command center in Washington, D.C. And in that strike, actually, six people were killed, including an American citizen. And at the time, Condoleezza Rice, you know, senior official in the Bush administration, was defending the right of the president of the United States to assassinate individual...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 2:39pm PDT
Local ACLU Appeals for Legal Assistance to Challenge Camping Ban ACLU of Northern California Considering Request for Legal Resources...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 11:58am PDT
Escalated Protest May Be Under Discussion for Upcoming Freedom Sleep-Out's The Santa Cruz City Council’s continued hostility to basic human rights by the City Council and relentless police and ranger ticketing for homeless survival behavior has raised proposals that Freedom Sleepers and other protesters bring sleeping bags and blankets to the next City Council meeting and sleep indoors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 3:30am PDT
Obama Could Stop Israeli State Terror with One Phone Call He Won't Make Israel...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 1:05am PDT
On Behalf of My Sister, Nicole Deane My Sister, #BlackLivesMatter, The Oakland Police, a Warrant and the Kern County District Attorney....
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 7:08am PDT
Another Hambach Forest comrade in freakin jail another person fighting for the hambach forest in germany kidnapped and beaten by the cops...
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 10:07am PDT
Netanyahu Unleashes Settler Violence, Targets Palestinian Hospitals and Patients Israel...
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 7:22am PDT
Israel's Killing Machine Taking More Palestinian Lives Israel...
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 12:22am PDT
The Alameda County DA Wants to Spy on You – Without Any Oversight. New privacy legislation has been signed by the Governor - but the Alameda County District Attorney may pull a fast one before it takes effect to spy on all of us....
Posted: Sat, Oct 10, 2015 9:01pm PDT
Extreme Isolation of Gang Leaders in Prisons is Un-Constitutional and Amounts to Torture The extreme isolation and sadism endured by certain prisoners is a violation of the U.S. Constitution and amounts to torture. No matter what crime someone has committed the prisoner must not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The treatment given to Thomas Silverstein is a long term torture designed to drive him insane....
Posted: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 9:47am PDT
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