Feb 1st, 2009
Posted by Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 10:28pm	National Security

Ben Wizner Discusses ACLU Rendition Case on Salon Radio

As we pointed out last week, oral arguments in our second extraordinary rendition case, Mohamed v. Jeppesen, are February 9 in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. On Friday, Glenn Greenwald interviewed Ben Wizner, who's representing the five plaintiffs in the Jeppesen case. Ben gives some background on our first rendition case, El-Masri v. Tenet, and explains how the Bush Justice Department misused the state secrets privilege to shield itself from legal liability for its abuses of power. Glenn and Ben also discuss warrantless wiretapping under the Bush administration, and the ACLU's pursuit for the release the rest of the legal memos authorizing the use of torture on detainees in U.S. custody overseas.

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1. Vic Livingston Says:
   Feb 1st, 2009 at 11:58pm

   FIGHTING TORTURE MUST BEGIN AT HOME.

   FIGHT TO DISMANTLE THE BUSH-CHENEY EXTRAJUDICIAL PUNISHMENT NETWORK.

   Team Obama must immediately join with civil libertarians and GOP defenders of the Constitution to dismantle the nationwide extrajudicial punishment network -- authoritarian bureaucrats and security/intel officers and their nationwide network of citizen vigilantes fronted by federally-funded volunteer programs.

   This nationwide, Gestapo-like operation has made a mockery of the judicial system for the past eight years and has claimed many victims from all strata of society.

   Crimes against humanity are being committed across the nation via the use of so-called "directed energy (radiation) weapons" which the Bush D.O.J. recently confirmed are being widely deployed to police forces nationwide.

   These RADIATION weapons emit silent, pulsed bursts of various forms of radiation -- and are degrading and damaging the health of those on the receiving end as well as their operators.

   This weaponry has NO PLACE in civilized society -- much less in the hands of security personnel who interact with the public.

   The widespread deployment of this weaponry virtually assures its misuse. Imagine if rogue actors tried to use its silent, deadly force to induce illness or to disable our political leaders.

   Perhaps they already have.

   Victims of this extrajudicial punishment network also see their finances and livelihoods expropriated and destroyed by coordinated "multi-agency action" "programs of personal destruction" that deny them due process of law while degrading their lives and destroying their families.

   The IRS, under Bush-Cheney, has been transmogrified into an ideological weapon of social control and recrimination by these covert multi-agency actions.

   Obama administration officials must address these abuses IMMEDIATELY, before these affronts to the Constitution destroy more American families -- and subvert the Obama presidency.

   The bureaucrats and officers behind these "programs of personal destruction" remain entrenched. They cannot be co-opted or reformed. They must be removed from power and brought to justice.

   http://my.nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded- vigilante-network-targets-terrorizes-u-s-citizens

   http://my.now public.com/world/domestic-torture-radiation-weaponry-americas-horrific -shame