obama issues executive order institutionalizing indefinite detention

from aclu.org: President Obama today issued an executive order that permits ongoing indefinite detention of Guantánamo detainees while establishing a periodic administrative review process for them. The administration also announced it will lift the ban on bringing new military commissions charges against detainees that don’t already have ongoing cases in the substandard system. The American Civil Liberties Union has long called for Guantánamo to be shut down and opposes the indefinite detention of prisoners there, some of whom have been imprisoned by the U.S. without charge or trial for nine years. The ACLU has also long called for an end to the illegitimate military commissions and for the government to prosecute terrorism suspects in the federal criminal courts.

flashback: obamessiah retains right to detain without habeas

related warwhores updates:
prisoners help build patriot missiles*

4 charged in phone scheme at louisiana sen. landrieu's office

update: men arrested in 'louisiana watergate' have intel links
from usatoday: The four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones share a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications.

Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and flourescent vests when they walked into the senator's office inside a federal building in New Orleans on Monday. The other two were accused of helping to organize the plan.

The most well-known of the suspects is James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old whose hidden-camera expose posing as a pimp with his prostitute infuriated the liberal group ACORN and made him a darling of conservatives.

O'Keefe and suspect Joseph Basel, 24, formed their own conservative publications on their college campuses. A third suspect, Stan Dai, 24, served as editor of his university's conservative paper and once directed a program aimed at getting college students interested in the intelligence field after 9/11.

And the fourth suspect, Robert Flanagan, 24, wrote for the conservative Pelican Institute and had recently criticized Landrieu for her vote on health care legislation. O'Keefe was a featured speaker at a Pelican Institute luncheon days before his arrest. Flanagan is the son of the acting U.S. Attorney for northern Louisiana.

It's not yet clear whether the plan was a prank intended to be captured on camera or a more serious attempt at political espionage, as claimed by state Democrats who dubbed it "Louisiana Watergate."

related: download/read the full affidavit &
more updates on 4 charged in phone scheme

update: men arrested in 'louisiana watergate' have intel links

obamessiah updates: cfr, acorn, rhetoric & racewar

obama calls on young adults to back health-care reform*
washpost ignores own poll finding:
54% say more they learn of obamacare, less they like it*
race creeps into US healthcare debate*
who took the picture of joe wilson? and how?*
in the race from race, democrats rebut jimmy carter saying wilson racist*
taking count of obama's czars, lawmakers rise up*
obama names another globalist with tax problems to administration;
imf's charles collyns to treasury*
house votes to end federal funding for acorn*
house joins senate in cutting acorn funding after massive scandals*
US seeking 3rd delay on guantánamo cases*
capt. connie rhodes asks for judge clay land to reconsider*

orly taitz & the birthers falling down into the rabbit hole*
video: aipac's #1 target gets out of jail;
james traficant's 1st post-jail interview*
cfr says: bush, obama foreign policy only differs in rhetoric*
agriculture secretary bullish on rural america:
or, the council on foreign relations & the geo-engineering agenda*
fmr interior sec gale norton is focus of corruption probe*
obama's cousin cheney undergoing spinal surgery*