2007 News Highlights
Here are some highlights of 2007:
January
January 11 Day of Action – Shut Down Guantanamo, January 11, 2007
Some at Guantanamo Mark 5 Years in Limbo, January 16, 2007
Gonzales Says Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Habeas Corpus, January 24, 2007
US Attorneys and the Patriot Act, January 17, 2007 (a little known law that permits the president to appoint new US attorneys without confirmation hearings when a vacancy arises)
FBI Internet Surveillance More Extensive Than Previously Known, January 31, 2007
February
Stopping the Torture Business in our Hometowns, February 1, 2007
Lawyer Won’t Say Who Owned Mystery Plane, February 6, 2007
Speaking Out in D.C. Ended in a Trip to Jail, February 6, 2007
Sami Al Arian Speaks Out About His Hunger Strike, February 7, 2007 (first broadcast interview of his 4-year imprisonment)
A Mistrial for Lieutenant Watada, February 8, 2007
Is Scott Caplan a Cloak-and-Dagger Portland Lawyer or did the CIA Fool Him into Helping Torture Accused Terrorists, February 21, 2007
US Judge Orders Domestic Spying Cases to Proceed, February 21, 2007
Canada Court Rejects Terror Law: Canada’s supreme court struck down a law that allowed the government to detain and deport foreign-born terror suspects., February 23, 2007
Why Have So Many U.S. Attorneys Been Fired? It Looks a Lot Like Politics, February 26, 2007
New Light Shed on CIA’s ‘Black Site’ Prisons, February 28, 2007
Human Rights Watch Report: Ghost Prisoner Two Years in Secret CIA Detention, February 2007
March
FBI Misuses, Underreports PATRIOT Act Power: Audit, March 9, 2007
American Muslims Ask FBI to Probe Nazi Vandalism of Idaho Mosque, March 10, 2007
City police Spied Broadly Before GOP Convention, March 25, 2007
FBI Didn’t Mean to Break the Law, Mueller Says, March 28, 2007
David Hicks Gets Nine Months, March 31, 2007
April
Protesters Arrested at Aero in Smithfield, April 9, 2007
Patriot Act: Brighton Moves to Protect Itself, April 10, 2007
Data-mining of Students Raises Alarm, April 16, 2007
CBS Poll: 36% Say Gonzales Should Quit, April 19, 2007
May
Protesters Say Pilots Complicit in Torture, May 11, 2007
Police Records on Preconvention Surveillance Are Opened, May 17, 2007
UMass Faculty, Students Boo Andrew Card at Commencement, May 26, 2007
Death of Guantanamo Detainee is Apparently Suicide, Military Says, May 31, 2007
June
Secret CIA Jails Hosted by Poland, Romania, June 8, 2007
AT&T ‘Spy Room’ Documents Released, June 12, 2007
Prison Poets of Guantanamo Find a Publisher, June 23, 2007
Army Lt. Col Stephen Abraham Says Guantanamo hearings flawed, June 23, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Course on Guantanamo Detainees, June 29, 2007
July
Bush Says He’s Not Ruling Out Pardon for Libby, July 4, 2007 (after he intervened to keep Libby out of prison)
Lawsuit Against Wiretaps Rejected, July 7, 2007
Judge Won’t Dismiss States’ Wiretap Suits, July 26, 2007
Revealed: MI5’s Fole in Torture Flight Hell, July 29, 2007
August
Bush Signs Law to Widen Reach for Wiretapping, August 6, 2007
The lost Padilla verdict, August 17, 2007
Gonzales Resigns Justice Post; Bush Blames Politics, August 27, 2007
September
In Padilla Interrogation, No Checks or Balances, September 4, 2007
Mrs. Ashcroft and the Hospital “Tongue” Lashing, September 7, 2007
Democrats Warn of Hurdle for Justice Nominee, September 17, 2007
Federal Judge Rules 2 Patriot Act Provisions Unconstitutional, September 26, 2007
U.S. to Allow Key Detainees to Request Lawyers, September 28, 2007
October
Feds Won’t Let Go of Case Accusing Artist of Bioterrorism, October 12, 2007
Watada’s Double Jeopardy, October 12, 2007
U.S. Prosecution of Muslim Group Ends in Mistrial, October 23, 2007
Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to Senator Rockefeller, October 22, 2007
Testifying Before Congress, Rendition Victim Maher Arar Gets Apology from Bipartisan Lawmakers, but None from White House, October 24, 2007
Mukasey’s Confirmation: A Vote About Torture, October 24, 2007
The Case of the Contraband Underpants, October 26, 2007
Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest, October 29, 2007
November
Why States Are Resisting U.S. on Plan for REAL ID, November 5, 2007
Victory for Ehren Watada, November 13, 2007
Gonzales Heckled at U of Florida Speech, November 20, 2007
The Jeppesen Airplanes (video of protest of rendition facilitator Jeppesen Dataplan in San Jose, CA), November 21, 2007
Stop Torture Now: Extraordinary Rendition Requires Extraordinary Activism, November 21, 2007
Holy Land Mistrial: Judging a Designated Terrorist Entity, November 27, 2007
Ashcroft Defends the Patriot Act (Boulder residents protest), November 28, 2007
100 Walk Out on Ashcroft Talk, November 30, 2007
December
Wichita Falls Council Passes Resolution, December 4, 2007
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case Testing Rights of Detainees, December 5, 2007
Terror Trial Falters Again, December 14, 2007
Telecom Immunity Issue Derails Spy Law Overhaul, December 18, 2007
Congress Toughens FOIA Penalties, December 19, 2007
Retired CIA officer John Kiriakou admitted to participating in waterboarding. The DOJ is now investigating whether he broke the law when he made this public, December 21, 2007