Counterpunch Legislating Tyranny By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS and LAWRENCE M. STRATTON June 3, 2008 Link: Click here The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the “war[Read More…]
Daily Kos by John Halliwell Apr 13, 2008 After a failed trial whose verdict was declared by Time Magazine to be “one of the Justice Department’s most embarrassing legal setbacks since 9/11,” the American government has been resorting to legal ruses and an outright manipulation of the judicial system to[Read More…]
Daily Kos by John Halliwell Mon May 12, 2008 While the Bush Administration has, from time to time, done things which are – ahem – ethically questionable, it has usually made at least a half-hearted attempt to cover them with a veneer of legality. Occasionally, however, it will throw aside[Read More…]
New York Times By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: April 18, 2008 Link: Click here Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a[Read More…]
Daily Kos by John Halliwell Tue Jul 1, 2008 Last March, Sami Al-Arian was given a choice: 1) damned if you do; and 2) damned if you don’t; he chose “damned if you don’t”. Finally, a full three months after making that decision, he was formally charged last Thursday with[Read More…]
March 11, 2008 Jurist JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa – now on hunger strike and in danger of irreversible renal failure[Read More…]
March 8, 2008 TruthDig.org By Chris Hedges Link: Click here or here The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for four years despite a jury’s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian,[Read More…]
March 7, 2008 Harpers.org By Ken Silverstein Link: Click here When Sami Al-Arian was arrested in 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared a major victory in the “war against terrorism.” Two years later, after the Justice Department had spent an estimated $50 million prosecuting al-Arian, a Florida jury rejected charges[Read More…]
March 6, 2008 St. Petersburg Times By Meg Laughlin Sami Al-Arian is on the fifth day of a hunger strike in a Virginia prison, protesting a third subpoena to testify before a grand jury. He has refused food and water and has been transferred to a medical ward. His daughter[Read More…]
March 24, 2008USF OracleBy Christine GibsonLink: Click here Sami Al-Arian, a former professor in USF’s College of Engineering who was arrested in 2003 on charges of supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will face a grand jury either today or Tuesday for refusing to testify in a hearing that took place[Read More…]
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