World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/14-0

Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-0

Maher Arar: In Refusing to Hear My Case, the Supreme Court Has Put the World's Peace and Order in Danger
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/29-8

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The US wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/14/10

The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though — as everyone acknowledges — he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar’s attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.

http://tinyurl.com/28eqtnu



Nowhere to hide

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

06/16/10

This week the Supreme Court denied, without comment, the appeal of Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Canada and Syria who was arrested in transit through JFK airport in 2002, then shipped off to Syria and tortured for 10 months. Arar’s abuse allegedly included repeated beatings with electrical cables and confinement in a cell the size of a grave. When they realized they had the wrong guy — the really, totally, and utterly innocent guy — Arar was released without charges. He was then completely exonerated of any link to terror by the Canadian government, which impaneled a commission to investigate the incident, issued a 1,000-plus-page report on the matter, held its own intelligence forces responsible for their role in the screw-up, then apologized and paid Arar $9.8 million. Whereas the U.S. government — as Glenn Greenwald observes — has never apologized, never acknowledged any wrongdoing, never held anyone responsible, and, on President Barack Obama’s watch, has only redoubled its efforts to prevent Arar from having even a single day in court...

http://www.slate.com/id/2257211/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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High court dismissal of Maher Arar's suit confirms US executive officials are above the law

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9740/

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The Arar Case: Wrong and Unapologetic

William Fisher, Truthout: "So, where was Barack Obama when contrition was being handed out? What does he/we have to be contrite about? Well, just this: Back in 2002, a young computer engineer was passing through New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on his way back to his home in Canada. But he never made it. Instead, he was 'rendered' by US authorities to a Syrian prison, where, for the next ten plus months, he was held without charge and without family notification."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-arar-case-wrong-and-unapologetic60534

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The Tyranny of Judges
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard233.html



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