Patriot Act//US Detention Policies Decade after 9/11 (& rights catch-up)

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News Digest for April 12, 2011
NEW VIDEO:
U.S. Detention Policies a Decade After 9/11: Two Perspectives on Security, a conversation between Pardiss Kebriaei (Center for Constitutional Rights) and Michael Sullivan (Ashcroft Sullivan) at Smith College, March 30, 2011

On March 30, Pardiss Kebriaei and Michael Sullivan joined in two conversations about whether going forward, the U.S. still needed Guantánamo or someplace like it.

Kebriaei, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, has represented detainees at Guantánamo Bay and has sought accountability for torture and arbitrary detention. Sullivan, a partner at Ashcroft Sullivan LLC, formerly served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and as the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. As a U.S. Attorney, Sullivan prosecuted Richard Reid, known as the “shoe bomber.”

The 7 p.m. program shown in the video was sponsored by the Smith College Government Department with Pioneer Valley No More Guantánamos, Smith College Republican Club, and Smith Democrats.

A noon program at Western New England College (WNEC) School of Law was sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild WNEC Chapter, WNEC Federalist Society, South Asian Law Students Association WNEC, and Pioneer Valley No More Guantánamos.

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Find all the following at nogitmos.org

04/12 / Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press / More than 350 linked to terrorists kept off planes

04/11 / Mike Scarcella / BLT (Blog of the Legal Times) / D.C. Circuit Asked To Uphold Ruling to Free Gitmo Prisoner

04/11 / Editorial / Washington Post / A well-deserved jab over the Supreme Court’s detainee ruling

04/11 / Andy Worthington / The 9/11 Indictment: The Case We Would Have Seen In New York Had A Federal Court Trial Proceeded

04/11 / Tim Pearce / Reuters / Russia raps U.S. state dept human rights report

04/11 / Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare / Almerfedi Oral Argument Summary

04/11 / Ask the Author Live: Hendrik Hertzberg on Guantánamo / The New Yorker / Ask the Author Live: Hendrik Hertzberg on Guantánamo

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