Federal judge rules detainee's lawyers can question 9/11 mastermind Mohammed _ in writing

DEVLIN BARRETT
AP News
Rawstory.com

Aug 23, 2009 05:22 EST

Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee will be allowed to question -- in writing -- accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a federal judge has ruled. The decision is a setback for government lawyers who had sought to limit the scope of detainee lawyers' challenges to the detention and prosecution of terror suspects.

In a written ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina says lawyers for detainee Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani can submit written questions about their client to Mohammed. Prosecutors say he worked for Mohammed, but Rabbani's lawyers contend he was just a menial servant, not a part of any terror network.

The ruling says prosecutors may review the answers before delivering them to Rabbani's lawyers to remove any national security information.

Government lawyers had unsuccessfully sought to convince the judge that

This took place at the Anthony Wayne Movie Theater in Wayne, PA. Thanks to everyone that came out tonight, and thanks to Betsy Metz for making it possible. Correction: The news about NORAD lying, and the 9/11 Commission came out around the time this movie was released.

By Brad Knickerbocker
August 20, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor

For those who had their doubts about the politics behind the Bush administration’s “war on terrorism,” Tom Ridge’s new book will fuel long-held suspicions.

The former Republican governor of Pennsylvania, who was the first head of the Department of Homeland Security, says two top Bush officials – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft – pressured him to up the terror alert level before the 2004 election, according to promotional materials by publisher Macmillan.

“Ridge also charges that he was often ‘blindsided’ during daily morning briefings with Bush because the FBI withheld information from him, and says he was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings,” reports AFP.

Former Bush officials have been quick to push back on Ridge’s revelation.

Frances Frago Townsend, who coordinated homeland security matters at the National Security Council under President Bush, said Ridge is “absolutely wrong” in his allegation. “Politics played no part in any discussion” of the Homeland Security Council, Ms. Townsend insists in The Atlantic.

August 19, 2009
by Jason Leopold
The Public Record

Nine Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Eric Holder Wednesday saying the U.S. could face a terrorist attack if the attorney general appoints a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's use of torture against “war on terror" suspects.

Holder is under pressure to resist launching a criminal probe, even one limited to rogue CIA interrogators. At the same time, he is facing mounting pressure from some prominent Democrats and civil liberties and human rights groups to not only sign off on a criminal investigation but to expand it to include top Bush administration officials.

The latest correspondence came on Wednesday, in a letter to the attorney general that said an investigation into the CIA’s interrogation practices, no matter how limited in scope, would jeopardize the “security for all Americans, “chill future intelligence activities,” and could “leave us more vulnerable to attack.”

The senators resorted to fear-mongering, invoking the terrorist attacks on 9/11 to try and dissuade Holder

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Distribution
August 17, 2009

Movie screening: "9/11: BLUEPRINT FOR TRUTH"

Friday 09/11/2009, 5:20 PM, at Riverview Theater in Minneapolis (8th anniversary of 9/11)

In this 60-minute director's cut edition of "9/11: BLUEPRINT FOR TRUTH, The Architecture of Destruction," San Francisco Bay area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, provides a series of abridged versions of the full research copy. The stunning multimedia presentations will deliver myth-shattering scientific evidence surrounding the explosive demolition of all 3 World Trade center buildings.

This free screening is sponsored by the family of Patricia J. Statz, who died in the Pentagon on 09/11/2001. This screening is endorsed by the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MAP), the War Resisters League MN, Veterans For Peace, Ground Zero Minnesota, MN 9/11 Truth and We Are Change Minnesota.

By John Bursill -- Australian Activist and Engineer
August 15, 2009

As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches once again it leads us to reflect on what we have achieved and what is yet to be achieved by the 9/11 Truth and Justice Campaign. One thing we all might agree on is that a more "focused" and "deliberate" media campaign is in order this anniversary.

In this last year we have received some very powerful tools to use in our battle against those who would see us fade away as a movement. The most powerful is arguably the "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" paper provided, peer reviewed and published by our hard working scholars internationally. While this world-changing evidence has received press in parts of Europe and Asia, it has not been reported on within the corporate media of the "Coalition of the willing", being predominantly the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. It is important to note these countries are also the major supporters of the "War on Terror" having direct military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan to this day.