ACLU Condemns House Resolution Approving SWIFT Program
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 9 Comments
Yesterday, the House of Representatives condemned the NY Times and other news sources for leaking classified information about the government tracking international bank transactions in efforts of tracing terror funds.
Lawmakers expressed their sentiment through a resolution that was approved on a largely party-line 227-to-183 vote after days of harsh criticism by the Bush administration and [...]
Friday Free For All
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU | 35 Comments
Here are a few links from around the blogosphere that I wanted to share with you.
W.A.R. is coming!
Rightwing Nuthouse takes a sober look at the ups and downs of the SCOTUS decision on Hamdan.
Expose The Left has a vidoe of a reverend hiding AWOL troops.
Did we find Noah’s Ark in Iran???
Right Faith says that Senator [...]
Osama Bin Laden Puts Out Tribute Video To Slain Zarqawi
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
Via AP
Osama bin Laden defended attacks by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi against civilians in Iraq, purportedly saying in a taped Web message Friday that the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader was acting under orders to kill anyone who backs American forces.
Bin Laden paid tribute to al-Zarqawi in a 19-minute [...]
Protest The NY Times
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 1 Comment
Michelle Malkin pointed us to a protest being organized by Free Republic. Mark it on your calenders and spread the word.
Protest the New York Times Revealing of U.S. Secrets, Monday, July 10, 5 p.m.
We have a sound permit, and we will be across the street from the New York Times. They are at 229 [...]
Who’s Wagging Whom? The Media, Democrats and the ACLU on Hamdan
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Activist Judges, Border Control/Homeland Security, News | 12 Comments
I’m not sure if I should be impressed by what appears to be seamless message coordination by the Extreme Left/Media Complex or if I should laugh at what smells a heck of a lot like a steaming human pile of intellectually vacant dimwits with no original ideas. Come to think of it the latter [...]
Read More..>>Government claims VA laptop with 26 million vets personal information has been recovered
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under Border Control/Homeland Security, History, News, War On Terror | 1 Comment
According to an Associated Press (AP) story this morning at My Way News, the government claims that a laptop with sensitive information on its harddrive stolen from a home of a Veterans Affairs (VA) analyst on May 3rd. has been recovered. The stolen harddrive contained information on 26.5 million vets’ social security numbers, dates of [...]
Read More..>>Supreme Court Says Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions Are Unconstitutional; ACLU Calls Decision a Victory for the “Rule of Law”
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 27 Comments
I knew this wouldn’t take long! The ACLU are breaking out the champaign glasses and popping the cork! It is celebration time for the left, as Al Qaeda terrorists now have ‘protections’ via the Geneva Conventions thanks to the US Supreme Court. Andrew Sullivan thinks it is a great day too.
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Supreme Court Rules 5-3: No Military Tribunals, Bush Overstepped Authority
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 25 Comments
Just in from SCOTUS Blog
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court’s authority to rule on the military commissions’ validity, and then went ahead to rule that President Bush did not have authority to set up the tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and found the “military commissions” illegal under [...]
Hamdan Vs. Rumsfeld Decision Imminent
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 3 Comments
Update: Decision in! Court Rules 5-3: No Military Tribunals, Bush Overstepped Authority
ABC
The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing a potential landmark ruling that could determine the fate of the military tribunals created by President George W. Bush to try Guantanamo prisoners for war crimes.
The ruling by the nation’s highest court, which is expected later this week, [...]
ACLU Fixing Leaks
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, News | 10 Comments
The ACLU has gained a new board member and lost one of their most vocal critics.
The most vocal dissident on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, Wendy Kaminer, has been replaced by a candidate promising a less confrontational stance.
An attorney with the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University in Boston, Lisa Thurau-Gray, [...]
