January 6, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito represent the first major battle in an emerging constitutional war over the authority of the President. Revelations that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on US citizens without court approval have shifted the… Read More »
FIXING THE TORTURE FIX
December 21, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus–the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union… Read More »
WAR CRIMES MADE EASY
December 7, 2005 By Brendan Smith, Jill Cutler & Jeremy Brecher How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing death squads, kidnapping people and spiriting them across national borders, and planning unprovoked wars? Part of the answer lies in… Read More »
TOMGRAM: BRECHER AND SMITH ON THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
December 6, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture words into whatever shape best suits them. Then they declare themselves simply to be following precedent (which turns out, of course, to… Read More »
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