For more than three decades, the United States and its European allies have committed one fundamental error after another in the process of creating a commonly held narrative that Iran was secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Let us resist attempts to use this tragic moment as an opportunity to advance law enforcement surveillance powers. Freedom of speech can only thrive when we also have the right to privacy.

… you have General Sisi, the dictator of Egypt, who apparently is showing his solidarity for press freedom by continuing to preside over the imprisonment of multiple Al Jazeera journalists whose only crime was doing actual journalism and scores of other Egyptian journalists that never get mentioned in the news media…

… the—let’s remember that the United States bombed Al Jazeera in Afghanistan very early on after 9/11, then bombed the Sheraton Hotel in Basra, Iraq, where Al Jazeera journalists were the only journalists. Then they killed one of the most famous Al Jazeera correspondents in Baghdad in April of 2003, when Victoria Clarke, George Bush’s Pentagon spokesperson at the time, basically said if you’re an unembedded journalist, you’re with the terrorists, and if you die, it’s not our fault. They shelled the Palestine Hotel, killing a Reuters cameraman and the Spanish cameraman José Couso. So, yes, we should be condemning any and all attacks, especially when they’re killing journalists, no matter who the perpetrators are, but let’s not act as though the West’s hands are clean and that any one of those world leaders marching yesterday, that their hands are clean on these matters.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged the government to take a pass.

„This man has suffered enough, in my view,“ Feinstein, D-Calif., told CNN‘s „State of the Union.“

Every so often over the past decade or so in the „age of terrorism,“ someone has raised the issue of why we treat „terrorism“ as somehow distinct from criminal activity. We let the intelligence community, rather than law enforcement, focus on terrorism (even as some in law enforcement — notably, the FBI and the NYPD — have tried to redefine their missions as being about terrorism). In the past, I‘ve actually seen the wisdom of treating terrorism and criminal activities as separate, especially when terrorism was part of a larger, coordinated effort (especially when connected with state-level actors).

Im ehemaligen Wärterhäuschen zwar, aber das macht es ja auch nicht wirklich weniger schlimm.

„All this of course conflict and violence is just what the oligarchs have ordered, using their age old winning formula of divide and conquer, always to blind people into hating and blaming other groups as scapegoats,“ Hagopian said. „The latest current events sweeping the headlines are part of the banking cabal‘s design to create war, destabilize and destroy nations and economies and impoverish, kill and reduce the global population.“

The two arrested were part of a larger group of protesters, some dressed in orange and wearing black masks, who eventually made their way to the main entrance of the CIA headquarters in Langley Saturday morning. The entrance is at Dolley Madison Boulevard near Georgetown Pike. Cheney’s home is nearby.

According to messages posted to social media by a group called CODEPINK, the group stopped first at the homes of both CIA director John Brennan and at Cheney’s home before making their way to the CIA entrance.

Now Don DeBar, a New York-based Radio Host and Political Commentator, says: “The British government should be accountable for the CIA’s torture program” the way the US should.

“Torture is a crime under international law. Every person involved should be accountable, and every government official who fails to hold them accountable should be held again accountable for their failure to perform their oath of office,” he told Press TV’s UK Desk on Sunday.