House's military tribunals system in June, government lawyers began
drafting legislation that would set new rules for trials of
terrorist suspects. A central issue is whether prosecutors will be
allowed to introduce secret evidence, which detainees would not be
able to defend against.
Most military lawyers strongly oppose allowing secret evidence,
arguing that such a plan would probably violate the Geneva
Conventions and create a precedent for enemies of the United States
to use show-trials for captured Americans. But administration
lawyers maintain that classified evidence may be crucial to a case,
and revealing it would compromise national security.
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Comment: The CIA and FBI arrested Jose Padilla after his
whereabouts was given to them by Abu Zubaydah. Zubaydah had been
tortured, waterboarded by CIA interrogators. Zubaydah, a 30 year
old Saudi born in Palestine, who was arrested/captured March 27,
2002 by a special CIA team in the city of Faisalabad, in central
Pakistan. (pages 84-87, and 117) .
In October 2001, AWOL Bush signed a secret presidential order
(finding) allowing NSA with its telecom helpers, to carry forward
what had already begun and continue to eavesdrop on US citizens and
ignore the FISA court. The thinking being that it would have been
impossible for the FISA court to review probable cause and issue
warrants on thousands of US citizens. (p 37)
NSA worked with Global Crossing, Worldcom, and AT$T and taped into
their telecommunication switches helping NSA to monitor phone calls
and emails of US citizens. They also worked with Western Union to
follow the wire transfers of money.
First Data Corporation is one of the world's largest processors of
credit card transactions, a company with $6.5 billion in revenues.
(p11 The company, with its headquarters in Denver, accounts for
nearly half of the US charge volume. (p. 34) FBI got this company
to all them to investigate the credit card transactions histories of
US citizens and the alleged 9-11 hijacker using the company's
computer records. Subpoenas were issued by the federal court in
Omaha (where First Data's computer are located) by the handful,
producing more subpoenas than any other courthouse in America (p.
39)
Regarding some public questions about the administration'
role in misleading the public about Iraq or encouraging torture,
Deputy Director of the CIA, John McLaughlin said, "It's not about
being for torture or against torture, he said several times, in
artful way, It was a difficult time, and we did some things we soon
realized we might later regret." (p. 344)
Source: The One Percent Doctrine, Deep inside America's Pursuit of
it Enemies Since 9/11, by Ron Suskind
Activist's Remark Starts FBI Probe
Jim Bensman thought his suggestion during a public hearing was
harmless enough: Instead of
building a channel so migratory fish could go around a dam on the
Mississippi River, just get rid of the dam. Instead, the
environmental activist
found himself in hot water, drawing FBI scrutiny to see whether he
had
any terrorist intentions.
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