Critics of the government's secret no-fly list scored a potentially important victory Monday when a federal appeals court ruled that would-be passengers can ask a judge and jury to decide whether their inclusion on the list violates their rights.

In a 2-1 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a suit by a former Stanford University student who was detained and handcuffed in 2005 as she was about to board a plane to her native Malaysia.

Glenn Greenwald has done an incredible job at his blog and salon radio  in investigating the anthrax investigation.  It is a shame that the FBI and mainstream media cannot be trusted to deal honestly with the American people when it comes to such important issues as life and death and war and peace.  As Glenn says

"On Saturday morning, Dan Gillmor and I had the same thought when we read Glenn Greenwald's post: ABC News has to respond. But to what, exactly? We tried to put it into three questions: tough but fair as people there would probably say on other occasions."

No need for a big preamble. Dan Gillmor and I are posting these questions simultaneously.

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

Glenn Greenwald

Aug. 01, 2008 

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By Jeffrey Denning

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...

Even when set against all the reckless fear-mongering being spewed in response to last week's Supreme Court ruling -- which merely held that our Government can't abolish the constitutional guarantee of habeas corpus and must provide minimum due process to people before locking them in cages for life -- this comment by Newt Gingrich on Face the Nation this weekend is in a class all by itself:

In a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential power -- and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which has supported the Bush detention policies -- the U.S. Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 decision (.pdf), declared Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional.

A Discussion With Laura Donohue - The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty

June 11, 2008

Dear Friend,

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 17, 2008; A03

A former Republican congressman from Michigan who has dedicated himself to building ties between Christians and Muslims was indicted in federal court yesterday for alleged ties to an Islamic charity that sent money to suspected terrorists.

Mark D. Siljander, who served more than two terms in the House in the 1980s and later ran as a Republican candidate for the House from Northern Virginia, was charged with money laundering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

I invite my
colleagues to join my efforts to restore the US Constitution by
enacting the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007.