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Obama Administration Sets New Deportation Record to Appease GOP | MyFDL
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It's Official: Obama Has Deported More Than A Million Unauthorized Immigrants | Mother Jones
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That's right, Obama is on the verge of deporting more undocumented immigrants in a single term than Bush did his full eight years in office.
Despite the administration's stated focus on unauthorized immigrants with criminal records, more than half of those deported had no criminal records, 54 percent to 46 percent. But that number doesn't convey what percentage of removals categorized as criminal include serious or violent offenses as opposed to minor ones.
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Documents raise questions on treatment of detainees - CNN.com
- a detainee was killed by an unnamed sergeant who walked into a room where the detainee was lying wounded "and assaulted him ... then shot him twice thus killing him," one of the investigating documents says. The sergeant than instructed the other soldiers present to lie about the incident. Later, the document says an unnamed corporal then shot the deceased detainee in the head after finding his corpse.
- no senior officials have been held to account for the widespread abuse of detainees. Without real accountability for these abuses, we risk inviting more abuse in the future," the ACLU said in a statement.
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Accountability for Torture (in Britain) - NYTimes.com
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The British government has decided to pay former detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, tens of millions of dollars in compensation and conduct an independent investigation into its role in the mistreatment of prisoners.
The United States still operates the Guantánamo camp, with no end in sight. None of the truly dangerous terrorists there have been brought to justice, while many prisoners are still held who never should have been. The government not only refuses to come clean on this ignoble history, but it is covering up the Bush administration’s abuses by denying victims a day in court.
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Contrary to public statements, Obama admin fueled conflict in Yemen - WikiLeaks - Salon.com
- The Obama administration supplied emergency arms shipments to Saudi Arabia to aid the Saudis’ attacks on a Northern Yemeni rebel group late last year, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks — a revelation that is directly at odds with a public statement at the time by the top State Department spokesman, who flatly insisted that the U.S. had no military role in the conflict.
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Analysis: Obama embraced redefinition of ‘civilian’ in drone wars: TBIJ
- Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
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Excellent series of investigative reports from TBIJ on Obama's drone war program.
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U.S. resumes Bahrain arms sales despite rights concerns | Reuters
- "The government of Bahrain has yet to respect the Bahraini people's legitimate demands, or to hold accountable its own police and military officers for arresting, torturing and killing Bahraini protesters," Leahy said.
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U.S. Prepares to Continue Egypt Military Aid Amid Dispute - Bloomberg
- Congress requires Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to certify that Egypt is promoting freedoms and rights before it will release aid. Clinton can sidestep the restriction by using a waiver to release all or a portion of the funds on national security grounds.
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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Medea Benjamin, Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control | Book Salon
- The Obama administration, after all, is engaging in assassination when the president or the CIA serves as the judge, jury, and executioner. The administration has also largely dispensed with extraordinary rendition – moving terrorist suspects to a third country for interrogation and torture – in favor of targeted assassinations by drone. As Benjamin argues, this move dispenses with many of the legal problems of rendition. But it has raised a host of ethical questions about U.S. conduct overseas, particularly when the victims of drone attacks are U.S. citizens as was the case with Anwar al-Awlaki, the cleric killed by drone in Yemen, not to mention his 16-year-old son killed in a subsequent drone attack.
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Domestic drones could enhance surveillance but infringe on privacy | PRI.ORG
- As part of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, signed into law by President Barack Obama in February, the Federal Aviation Administration is required to write new rules for expanding the use of U.S. airspace by domestic drones.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
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