The draft order calls for senior officials to consider reopening the CIA’s network of secret prisons, where terror suspects were disappeared and deprived of their rights.
In a first, crucial test of whether Democrats would present a united front to defend human rights and civil liberties in the Trump era, they failed.
Protesters wearing all black were arrested as part of an unauthorized march by a group calling itself the “Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Fascist Bloc.”
President Obama has commuted the majority of the remaining prison sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
One privacy activist responded: "This decision will be added to the timelines of the most significant expansions of domestic surveillance in the modern era.”
Tillerson showed either a callous disregard for the lives of Yemeni civilians or striking ignorance about what the Saudis are doing there with U.S. help already.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Several attorneys who represent Guantánamo detainees are expressing worries about the fates of their clients and the other detainees who will pass into Donald Trump's custody.
Trump on Friday tweeted that a call for Congress to investigate leaks of “top secret intelligence shared with NBC.” He was apparently referring to an NBC write-up of a leak to The Washington Post.
Residents of a coastal village on the Red Sea in western Yemen recovered evidence of cluster weapons after an attack that killed a local fisherman. In a country dependent on imports, Saudi coalition strikes against the fishing industry have taken a devastating toll.
The move means the public still can't see the report — but at least it will be safe from the Republicans who have attempted to have it destroyed.
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