| All right, admittedly, I haven’t kept my dirty secret, secret, so I will openly admit; as against Bob Barr, and the Originalist legal theoreticians preceding him, who don’t need to be named again: I fully support the Bill of Rights, beginning with, and most importantly, the First Amendment, as particularly singled out as illegitimate by a former CIA officer who taught at Yale and helped found National Review, and virtually a form of treason if in dissent. So I say to those lionizing this fellow: "“If this be treason, make the most of it!”
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Subject: [November Newsletter] Reflecting on 20 years of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee + Drone & Guantanamo Bay whistleblowers join Primary Sources Podcast.
Date: November 18, 2021 at 3:30:32 PM CST
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| | | Todd, Last week, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (our predecessor organization). It was a brilliant event, kicked off by (former) Senator Russ Feingold, the only Senator to oppose the Patriot Act in 2001, followed by a conversation about the history and future of our organization with Nancy Talanian (founder), Shahid Buttar (former director), and Sue Udry (current director). If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch the full event here. We’re also proud to present a short video, From Outrage to Action, starring some of BORDC’s earliest activists whose passion and commitment helped to build a powerful movement to defend the Bill of Rights |
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Sue, Chip, and Quentin |
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| | ![]() | The Julian Assange extradition appeal concluded in London on Thursday, October 29. Immediately following the proceedings, Defending Rights & Dissent brought together some of the best journalists covering the proceedings this week to offer their reactions and analysis. WATCH NOW >>> |
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| Over the weekend, Yahoo News published a bombshell report, based on interviews with over 30 former US officials, about the CIA’s campaign against Australian journalist Julian Assange. We call for Congress to investigate the CIA’s actions and for any CIA officer involved in illegal activity to be criminally prosecuted. Defending Rights & Dissent also reiterates its call for the charges against Assange to be dropped. Read More >>> |
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| “We’re outraged that Steven Donzinger is in jail, and disgusted by the US judiciary’s complicity in Chevron’s campaign to destroy him,” said Sue Udry, executive director of Defending Rights & Dissent. “This case will have a deeply chilling effect on human rights lawyers who dare to challenge corporate abuses of people and the environment.” Read More >>> |
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| DRAD joined a national coalition of civil liberties and human rights organizations this week calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the explosive revelations in recent reporting about how in 2017 senior CIA officials planned to kidnap Assange and potentially assassinate him. Read More >>> |
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| | 1/3 of the 17 US charges against Julian Assange are related to Wikileaks’ release of the damaging information about the treatment of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, otherwise known as the "Guantanamo Files." Andy Worthington and Clive Stafford Smith, experts on the conditions and treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, join Primary Sources to discuss the impact of the Guantanamo Files on their work and human rights cases around the world. |
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| Those in the drone program have witnessed first hand the serious human costs of the US’s global assassinations program. Host Chip Gibbons is joined by drone whistleblowers Lisa Ling, Keagan Miller, Cian Westmoreland, and Christopher Aaron for a timely and troubling conversation following the recent he Kabul drone strike, which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, shocking the conscience of all thinking people. |
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