5/27/2008

Dear AAPS Action Team,

Take Action!  Email Attorney General Mukasey and tell him that the must not tolerate further retaliation against Special Agent Bassem Youssef by his managers in the Counterterrorism Division.

Physicians who try to diminish patient risk and improve patient care and safety
are often targeted for retaliation. The integrity of the House of Medicine is
thus at risk, as is health care itself.

A government proposal to start collecting birth dates and genders of
people reserving airline flights is drawing protests from major
airlines and travel agencies that say it would be invasive, confusing
and "useless."

The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program.

Last week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted to approve S.274 and send it to the Senate floor for debate. S.274 is the Senate equivalent to the House bill H.R. 985. This legislation, if passed, would constitute an important and hard fought victory for Federal employees.

Jennifer Daskal of HRW talks about Habeas Corpus and what an unlawful enemy combatant is.Just returned from Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Jennifer Daskal, Advocacy Director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch explains the difference between "unlawful" and "lawful" combatants, and says Habeas Corpus should be restored to detainees.