Terror Hearing Puts Lawmakers in Harsh Light – NYTimes.com

March 13, 2011 islamoyankee

Terror Hearing Puts Lawmakers in Harsh Light – NYTimes.com.

But at Thursday’s hearing, there was no single institution summoned to the hot seat. The few outside witnesses who appeared were eager to combat radical extremism, not defend it. Mostly, it was the committee itself that seemed to be on trial.

The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: ‘There is no real hunt. It’s fixed’ | World news | guardian.co.uk

The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: 'There is no real hunt. It's fixed' | World news | guardian.co.uk. Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow talk.

#NYC Event on #torture: NY City event on CIA Torture Experiments

Dear NRCAT Supporter, I want to encourage you to participate in this important event NRCAT is co-sponsoring with the Metro NY Religious Campaign Against Torture, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – details and flier below. Two of the panelists are co-authors on the recent report from PHR providing evidence of CIA medical experiments involving the torture of detainees in U.S. custody following September 2001. You'll find details about the report atwww.phrtorturepapers.org, and you can join the formal complaint requesting an investigation by the federal Office of Human Research Protection. Please also visit NRCAT's new…

Rallies Nationwide on ‘Bill Of Rights’ Day Dec. 15 | Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement

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