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| VCS Adds "VCS on TV" News Clips to Web Site |
Television News Coverage of VCS Advocacy VCS now posts links to television news broadcasts featuring Veterans for Common Sense and our highly successful advocacy efforts on issues you care about. |
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| Disabled Iraq War Veteran with Service Dog Beaten by McDonalds Employee |
October 30, 2009, Brooklyn, New York (Courthouse News Service) - A disabled Army captain who was wounded in Iraq claims McDonald's employees beat him with garbage can lids after he brought his service dog to the restaurant. Luis Montalvan says the attack came as he was photographing the restaurant after he repeatedly complained about the treatment he received there. |
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| Deployment at All Costs: Military Arrests Mom, Sends Child to Protective Serivces |
Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby November 16, 2009, Savannah, Georgia (Associated Press) – An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. |
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| Fort Hood Fallout: Camp Lejeune Whistle-Blower Fired |
A psychiatrist who tried to prevent Fort Hood-style violence among Marines about to "lose it" instead loses his job November 16, 2009 (Salon) - Last April, two Marines at Camp Lejeune predicted to a psychiatrist that some Marine back from war was going to "lose it." Concerned, the psychiatrist asked what that meant. One of the Marines responded, "One of these guys is liable to come back with a loaded weapon and open fire." |
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| New York Times Profiles VA and Secretary Shinseki |
No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission November 11, 2009 (New York Times) - It was a sad homecoming of sorts. On Tuesday, Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, returned to Fort Hood, Tex., where he was a division commander in the mid-1990s, to pay tribute to two veterans affairs employees who died in the shootings there last week. |
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VCS Torture FOIA Update: ACLU In Court To Argue For Release Of Torture Documents
Written by ACLU
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 08:54
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Government Continues To Withhold Key Documents In ACLU Lawsuit September 28, 2009 - The American Civil Liberties Union will be in federal court in New York on Wednesday, September 30 for oral arguments in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.The ACLU and its co-counsel will argue for the release of redacted portions of Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos describing "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized for use by the CIA, as well as documents describing the contents of destroyed videotapes depicting CIA interrogations. The government has said it will continue to withhold the documents and portions of documents regarding the Bush administration's torture program despite extensive public knowledge of the program. The ACLU will also argue for the declassification of three detainees' WHAT: Arguments in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit for documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas, including OLC memos on CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" and documents related to the contents of destroyed CIA interrogation videotapes WHO: Jenny-Brooke Condon of Gibbons P.C. and Alex Abdo of the ACLU will argue for the release of the documents before U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York WHEN: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m. EDT WHERE: Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, Courtroom 14D, 500 Pearl St., New York, NY More information about the ACLU's FOIA litigation is at:
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