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Chris Hedges> The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost

The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost by Chris Hedges Monday, March 26, 2012 Truthdig via Common Dreams I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part More

Crisis of Confidence: How Washington Lost Faith in America’s Courts, by Karen J. Greenberg

Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System Posted by Karen J. Greenberg, August 21, 2011. TomDispatch.com Can you even remember the world before 9/11? You know, the one where you weren’t stripped in the airport or body-wanded at the ballpark? It’s as much a lost world as anything Conan Doyle ever imagined. And it seems there’s no turning More