The arrest, so soon after the epic Paris free speech march, underscores the selectivity and fraud of this week's "free speech" parade. It also shows why those who want to criminalize the ideas they like are at least as dangerous and tyrannical as the ideas they targeted.
"Regin" is believed to be behind cyberattacks on the European Union.
The "queen of torture" played a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee, had a key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and reportedly mishandled information that could potentially have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
Given reports that President Obama may promote U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli to Attorney General, perhaps it's worth revisiting the time he misled the Supreme Court.
Piltz revealed in 2005 that the Bush administration was revising supposedly scientific reports to cast doubt on the existence of human-caused climate change.
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