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FREEDOM PLEDGE

We are Americans, and in our America we do not torture, we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy, we do not tap people’s phones and emails without a court order, and above all we do not give any President unchecked power.

I pledge to fight to protect and defend the Constitution from assault by any President.



Support the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007!

Click here to read the text of H.R. 3835.

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AFC Helps Achieve a Victory in Congress on Contempt!

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Abuse of the Week

  • Media ignores congressional testimony detailing war crimes committed by Bush administration

    • chair2.jpgOn May 6, three prominent Americans provided testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties about the Bush administration’s approval and use of torture.  Their combined testimony left little doubt that the Bush administration, including men like John Yoo who authorized the torture through legal memos, had committed war crimes.

    You can view or read the testimony of the three witnesses on the blog, Docudharma.

    While the torture itself is the true abuse in this situation, the blogger tahoebasha3 notes in his post another form of abuse:  The mainstream media’s near complete unwillingness to report on this story.  We have war criminals in our country and the media is just whistling past the graveyard.

    Shameful.

We cannot sit back and allow our rights to be taken away. Please sign the American Freedom Pledge (above) and join the fight to defend our Constitution.

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The Latest News

    05/14/2008
  • Case Against 9/11 Detainee Is Dismissed

    • New York Times, 5/14/2008
    The Pentagon official in charge of war crimes cases declined to permit a case to proceed against one of six detainees charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, dismissing charges against a Saudi who had been subjected to aggressive interrogation at the United States detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

    05/13/2008
  • Let the sunshine in

    • Washington Times, 5/12/2008
    So important was an April 30 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution that it should have been on front pages around the country. Titled "Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government" and chaired by Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat. it focused on an issue ignored by the presidential contenders that has deeply weakened our rule of law.