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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; torture</title>
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		<title>OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/05/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/05/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cost of the War on Terror: Orwellian Inspired Torture, Extrajudicial Rendition, Racial/Religious Profiling, Warrantless Wiretaps, Investigations without Reasonable Cause…

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Osama bin Laden is dead. Many peoples in the world, especially in the United States, are celebrating the death of the world’s most notorious terrorist. The nature and circumstances of his demise were fitting in light of the life of hate, vengeance, and violence he led. The old adage, “live by the sword, die by the sword,” is appropriate in this case.]]></description>
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		<title>WIKILEAKS-JULIAN ASSANGE-AND POSSIBLE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/10/wikileaks-julian-assange-and-possible-criminal-prosecution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/10/wikileaks-julian-assange-and-possible-criminal-prosecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[espionage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping the government in Check, the Uncomfortable Reality of Freedom of the Press

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange surrendered to British authorities on December 7, 2010 in connection with sexual assault allegations leveled against the Australian native by Swedish authorities. News media reports said Assange was engaged in consensual sexual encounters with two women (WikiLeak volunteers) in Sweden this past August when the encounters turned non-consensual because Assange would not use a condom. The controversial Assange has gained international acclaim and criticism for his website’s disclosure of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and documents. The sexual assault charges became prominent after the disclosures occurred.]]></description>
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		<title>BOTH TERROR AND AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM ON TRIAL</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/02/both-terror-and-american-legal-system-on-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/02/both-terror-and-american-legal-system-on-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilian courts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suspected Terrorists should be Transferred to Civilian Custody and Processed in the Criminal Justice System

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was involved in the two bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 which killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. To what extent we do not know. The final verdict is mixed on that issue. What we do know is that the New York Times reported Ghailani was captured in Pakistan in 2004 where he was held in one of the CIA’s “secret prisons” for most of the next five years. He was subjected to repeated interrogations and torture during that period before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to his attorneys. The Obama administration elected to use the Ghailani case as a test run for its policy that terrorists should be tried in civilian courts rather than before military tribunals (here, here and here). Ghailani was then indicted by a New York federal grand jury on 285 terrorism-related counts, including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and murder in connection with the embassy bombings, and thereafter transferred from military custody to civilian custody.]]></description>
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		<title>DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI-THE PUNISHMENT DOES NOT FIT THE CRIME</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/30/dr-aafia-siddiqui-the-punishment-does-not-fit-the-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/30/dr-aafia-siddiqui-the-punishment-does-not-fit-the-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[86 Year Federal Sentence Handed to the Gray Lady of Bagram Greater Than Necessary, Cruel and Unusual

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair

Depending on who you believe, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is either an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist kidnapped in Pakistan in 2003 and tortured by Americans in the infamous Bagram prison in Afghanistan over the next four years or she is a captured al Qaeda terrorist who tried to kill six American military personnel in Ghazni, Afghanistan in 2008. Whichever she is, she did not deserve the 86 year sentence U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman imposed on her on September 23, 2010 because she posed a threat of “recidivism.”]]></description>
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		<title>OBAMA and MCCAIN: FORMER PRESIDENTIAL RIVALS EMBRACE TORTURE AND ASSASSINATION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/26/obama-and-mccain-former-presidential-rivals-embrace-torture-and-assassination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/26/obama-and-mccain-former-presidential-rivals-embrace-torture-and-assassination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nhanced interrogation techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror suspects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing Bush’s War on Terror, Obama Continues Policy of Unfettered Presidential Power to Assassinate Americans Abroad and McCain Sponsorsthe Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Sen. John McCain was once an honorable man, a respected “war hero,” and a “maverick” politician who stood on principle before political expediency. In 2000 the Arizona senator waged a “maverick” campaign for the Republican presidential nomination from inside his Straight Talk Express bus and stunned the nation with a convincing victory over heavily favorite Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary. He became an instant media “darling” who suddenly had the respect and admiration of most moderate Republicans and independents. The Vietnam “war hero” had taken on the Republican Party establishment and won.]]></description>
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		<title>MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/09/military-commissions-act-of-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/09/military-commissions-act-of-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear Mongers Continue Calls for Military Tribunals to Avoid Burdens of Complying with Constitution and Rule of Law

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The day after we posted our blog “Argument Against Gitmo Closure Defeated By Act of Terrorism” (Dec. 28, 2009), in which we pointed out that Republican opponents of the Obama administration’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay, had not suggested that Christmas Day attempted airline bomber Umar Farouck Abdulmutallab be tried before a military tribunal rather than in a civilian court, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) led an awakened chorus of Republican voices saying Abdulmutallab should not be tried as a “criminal defendant” in a federal civilian court but rather as a “terrorist” before a military tribunal.]]></description>
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		<title>THE AGONIZING GITMO DILEMMA</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-agonizing-gitmo-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-agonizing-gitmo-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 22, 2009, just days after assuming the presidency, Barak Obama announced that he would close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility where hundreds “suspected terrorists” have been held for years without trial under an official Bush-administration created designation “enemy combatant.” Civil libertarians and prominent constitutional scholars have long advocated the closure of the facility while political conservatives have fought hard in the trenches to keep the internationally-criticized torture facility open.]]></description>
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		<title>CIA PROBE NECESSARY TO PROTECT RULE OF LAW</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/09/01/cia-probe-necessary-to-protect-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/09/01/cia-probe-necessary-to-protect-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[covert torture policies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigating Crimes of Torture: Expecting and Demanding Accountability
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and paralegal Billy Sinclair
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently selected a Connecticut federal prosecutor named John H. Durham to investigate whether the CIA’s destruction of the videotapes of harsh interrogation techniques inflicted upon terror suspects between 2002 and 2003 merit a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RIGHT TO KNOW IN THE REAL WORLD</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/05/19/the-right-to-know-in-the-real-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/05/19/the-right-to-know-in-the-real-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Balancing President’s Balancing Act; Public’s Right to know, Due Process for Terrorist

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

President Barak Obama has drawn considerable political flak recently from liberal Democrats, human rights groups, and “left-leaning” bloggers for two terror-related decisions: the decision to fight the court-ordered release of dozens of photos of terror suspects being subjected to torture interrogation techniques; and the decision to resurrect the military tribunals set up during the Bush administration to try terror suspects. This new wave of criticism from the president’s natural base of supporters comes of the heels of massive political flak he incurred several weeks ago from Republicans, right-wing radio talk show hosts, and the “new voice” of the Republican Party, former vice-president Dick Cheney, concerning the administration’s decision to release of U.S. Justice Department “terror memos” authorizing CIA torture interrogations in 2002. ]]></description>
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		<title>A DEFENSE AGAINST TORTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/05/09/a-defense-against-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/05/09/a-defense-against-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rule of law prevails over the demands of politics

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In the wake of the Obama administration’s release of the “terror memos” and the political firestorm the release generated, the president has instructed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review all the facts and circumstances surrounding the “torture” interrogations conducted by CIA and U.S. military personnel and make a determination of whether criminal charges should be filed either against those who approved the torture interrogations or those who conducted them, or both. Any decision Attorney General Holder makes will trigger an intense political backlash.]]></description>
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