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Celebrating the Independence Holiday as National Prisoners

Americans are good people but we have been led astray. The answers are not found in the ideologies of the far right or the far left for that matter, they are found in the center.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In the land of the free, it is curious that we are now locked into our own country for the first time in history. Immigration paranoia has led the Bush administration to placing passport requirements on the entry of Canada and Mexico. How free do you feel?

I lived on the Mexican border for two years while working as a photojournalist/reporter for the Yuma, Arizona NBC station. We visited Mexico constantly then and learned amazing things about our neighbors to the south. I earned awards from the Associated Press for stories I shot in Mexico, but today that would not be possible if I did not have passport.

Prosecutors: 9/11 Co-Conspirators Charges Referred to Trial

The charges allege a long-term, highly-sophisticated, organized plan by al Qaeda to attack the United States.

(GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba) - The Defense Department announced today that charges against five of the six detainees who are alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001 have been referred to trial by military commission.

Those attacks resulted in the death of 2,973 people, including 8 children.

CIA Admits Waterboarding Three Suspects

Human Rights Watch says CIA’s acknowledgment of waterboarding is admission of a crime.

(NEW YORK) - Human Rights Watch says CIA Director Michael Hayden’s admission that the CIA used waterboarding should prompt an immediate criminal investigation by the Department of Justice. Although use of waterboarding has been widely reported in the press, this is the first time that the CIA has openly acknowledged employing the practice.

"General Hayden’s acknowledgment that the CIA subjected three detainees to waterboarding is an explicit admission of criminal activity," said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch.