Glenn Greenwald notes the debate going on now in Great Britain, where a plan to expand the government’s authority to detain terrorist suspects for 42 days without bothering to charge them with any crime had run into stiff opposition - from conservatives:
The official position of the British Conservative Party is to oppose the legislation, and […]

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Apparently The Decider is so unpopular that lawyers in Upper Darby don’t even want his name mentioned in court, because they think it could tip the jury against them:
Attorneys Michael P. Laffey and Robert P. DiDomenicis of Holsten & Associates in Media, Pa., are defending Upper Darby Township, Pa., in a civil rights suit brought […]

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As if I know anything about this. Actually, I do.

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You’ve heard, of course, of Blackwater USA, the private security firm that has about 1,000 - or more - employees in Iraq, supplementing our official armed forces and in fact, helping to ensure that a military draft is not necessary. You might also remember that those four Americans who were killed and burned in Fallujah in 2004, their charred bodies hung […]

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Conservative legal scholar Robert Bork slips, falls, and sues.

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