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06/26/2007
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Heat for Habeas

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:18am
Alright, so it's easily 90 degrees and I'm blogging from a blackberry so I can find some shade. People are starting to arrive in force. I'd say we've got a couple hundred milling about the site of the rally. We've got a little bit of the Boss (Springsteen, not Cheney) playing over the speaker system. Things should be getting going ver
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06/26/2007
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Little Taste Before the Main Show

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 10:31am
06/26/2007
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And the Live-Blogging Begins

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 10:30am
Here I am, sitting at a table with some old ACLU chums, as the rally starts to set up. I'll keep posting throughout the morning, and hopefully will be able to link to some video blogs with interviews with the principals. Incidentally, it's like 90 degrees. Stay tuned!
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06/25/2007
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Day of Action to Restore Law & Justice

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 12:27pm
Friends---my apologies for not being more productive on findhabeas, but I've been struggling to get through the excellent Gellman/Becker Cheney expose in the Post, which I plan to write about at length today. It really teases out the ideological strain of executive supremacy that's informed so much of what the Bush administration (
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06/23/2007
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An Insider Criticizes the CSRTs

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 9:17pm
Former Army reserve lawyer, and panelist on the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) says in a sworn affidavit that the CSRTs relied and rely too heavily on unsubstantiated statements by the intelligence community. Stories in the Times and the Post. His words: the tribunals are "fundamentally flawed."
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06/22/2007
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SecDef Pushing Closure

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 6:23pm
More on the close-gitmo meeting from the Times.
The momentum for closing the camp has come in part from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has argued repeatedly that the detention unit has acquired such a shabby
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06/22/2007
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I Called It...

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 9:57am
White House backpedals on Gitmo closure. Note ACLU quote.
"It's no longer on the schedule for tomorrow," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. "Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future." Christopher Anders, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, says
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06/21/2007
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Possible NSA Court Fight

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 6:03pm
From Reuters. Incidentally, the close-Gitmo story is bright red top headline on Drudge.
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06/21/2007
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Administration Close to Shutting Gitmo?!

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:55pm
AP Newsbreak with a whopper.
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06/21/2007
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DOJ Riven Over Domestic Spying

By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:42pm
According to House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., former attorney general John Ashcroft confirmed the testimony of his former deputy, James Comey, that there were deep fractures within the Justice Department and White House over
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