Obama Formalizes His Indefinite Detention Black Hole

By: bmaz Tuesday December 21, 2010 3:58 pm

The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration.

What Glenn Greenwald Said On American Terrorism Cowardice

By: bmaz Sunday January 31, 2010 7:30 pm

Just go read it. Because every word Glenn Greenwald wrote in his post today, entitled Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney Radicalism, the gospel truth. It is rare that you will see a post here just pointing you somewhere else because the other source says it all. This is one of those times.

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