The Justice Department is belatedly, and in a rather limted way, reviewing the role of its lawyers in the domestic spying debacle, including what legal advice was given to the administration on the subject of spying on Americans...
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights says Gitmo's inmates should be tried or freed, and that the facility should be closed. A London judge has called the U.S. notion of what constitutes torture "uncivilized" and unlike any definition in Britain or the West.
Despite the fact that the pictures aren't recent, they have provoked enough outrage that the Iraqi human rights minister has essentially announced that he no longer trusts the Americans with Iraqi prisoners and that he wants them all handed over to the Iraqi government... (he didn't mention anything about those Iraqi police death squads, though...)
Israeli troops have shot dead a disabled Palestinian boy on the West Bank. Yep. They're really winning their war on terror...
A study shows very high rates of psychiatric stress in troops returning from Iraq...
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
