tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965358364885799373.post6811550764250459463..comments2023-02-23T06:53:45.432-08:00Comments on Wxxx: The Sovereign VoyeurWXXXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061788963112666012noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965358364885799373.post-44526341222395089612009-06-16T01:38:20.137-07:002009-06-16T01:38:20.137-07:00Sibel Edmonds, recipient of a gag order in 2002 at...Sibel Edmonds, recipient of a gag order in 2002 at the hands of a State Secrets Privilege invokation by the Bush administration, has for the past month or so been writing extensively on matters relating such exercizes of executive power as this on her new web log, giving special attention to the role of the press (the lap-dog press, that is, even when adopting an "alternative" guise) as the concealing revealers, the sensationalized fig leaves that rest upon the executive privy, as it were. Here, she addresses SSP directly: <a href="http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/06/current-battle-against-state-secrets.html" rel="nofollow">The Current Battle against State Secrets Privilege</a>WXXXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061788963112666012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965358364885799373.post-39997087748529448382009-04-11T23:38:00.000-07:002009-04-11T23:38:00.000-07:00On a related issue, namely that of the Obama DoJ p...On a related issue, namely that of the Obama DoJ position on habeus corpus, Grenwald has pointed out the <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram/index.html" REL="nofollow">discrepancies</A> between Obama the Senator and Obama the President, quoting a Senate speech in support of an amendment to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that would have restored habeus corpus. We note the significance of one passage of this speech...<BR/><BR/><I>I can also imagine the terror I would feel if one of my family members were rounded up in the middle of the night and sent to Guantanamo without even getting one chance to ask why they were being held and being able to prove their innocence.<BR/><BR/>This is not just an entirely fictional scenario, by the way...</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed, it is not entirely fictional, for his own grandfather found himself in a similar situation in 1949 when he was detained and tortured by the British for unsubstantiated suspicion of collaboration with the Mau Mau rebellion...WXXXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061788963112666012noreply@blogger.com