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10 . “Hurricane Ike—Hotline Calls—Gaps—Summary 9/14/08,” Disaster Accountability Blog, http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/15/hurricane-ike-hotline-calls-gaps-summary-91408 (Sept. 15, 2008).
11 . “Information Limited, Frustrations Grow,” Disaster Accountability Blog http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/18/information-limited-frustrations-grow (Sept. 18, 2008).
12 . John Whitehead, “More on rebuilding New Orleans: Lessons from Princeville, NC,” Environmental Economics, http://www.env-econ.net/2005/09/more_on_rebuild.html (Sept. 6, 2005).
13 . Amy Liu and Nigel Holmes, “The State of New Orleans: An Update,” New York Times (Aug. 28, 2009).
14 . Ibid.
15 . Ibid.
16 . Ibid.
17 . Ibid.
18 . Ibid.
19 . Ibid.
20 . Ibid.
21 . “FEMA public affairs team wins ‘prize’,” Disaster Accountability Blog, http://blog .disasteraccountability.com/2007/12/11/femas-prize-winning-public-affairs-team (Dec. 11, 2007).
22 . Jim Grichar, “Abolish the FDA!!” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/grichar/grichar17.html (May 19, 2003).
23 . “FDA to Require Chantix, Zyban to Carry ‘Strongest’ Suicide, Depression Warning,” Associated Press, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529738,00.html ( Jul. 1, 2009).
24 . Grichar, “Abolish the Fed!!”
25 . Jane Zhang, Julie Jargon, and A. J. Miranda, “Tomato industry stews amid salmonella outbreak,” San Diego Union-Tribune, http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080702/news_1n2tomatoes.html (Wall Street Journal, Jul. 2, 2008).
26 . Ibid.
Lie #11
1 . Brian Doherty, “Prohibition = Violence,” reason.com, http://www.reason.com/news/show/34755.html ( Jan. 29, 2003).
2 . Ibid.
3 . Ibid.
4 . Ethan Nadelmann, “Can We Really Afford a (Failed) War on Drugs?” commonwealthclub.org, http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/03/03-07nadelmann-speech.html ( Jul. 24, 2003).
5 . Ethan Nadelmann, “Canada Must Not Follow the U.S. on Drug Policy,” Drug Policy Alliance, http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/ottawa022207.cfm (Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 22, 2007).
6 . Nadelmann, “Can We Really Afford a (Failed) War on Drugs?”.
7 . Anthony Gregory, “The Evil War on Drugs,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory106.html (Feb. 1, 2006).
8 . “Drug raids gone bad,” Philadelphia Daily News, http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090320_DRUG_RAIDS_GONE_BAD.html?page=2&c=y (Mar. 20, 2009).
9 . http://www.startribune.com/nation/59045917.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiacyKUzyaP37D_MDua_eyD5PcOiUr.
10 . https://www.cato.org/realaudio/drugwar/papers/duke.html.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Radley Balko and Joel Berger, “Wrong Door,” Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6651 (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 2, 2006).
13 . Ibid.
14 . Radley Balko, “No SWAT,” Slate, http://www.slate.com/id/2139458 (Apr. 6, 2006).
15 . Jacob G. Hornberger, “Why Does America Have a Drug War?” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger159.html (Apr. 22, 2009).
16 . “Police: Shooting of Elderly Woman ‘Tragic, Unfortunate’,” wsbtv.com, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10374909/detail.html (Nov. 21, 2006).
17 . “Terrorism,” Drug Policy Alliance Network, http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/terrorism (last updated on July 19, 2004).
18 . “Mexico Under Siege: ‘It’s a War’,” Los Angeles Times, http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war.
19 . Richard Marosi, “Mexico Under Siege: For Tijuana children, drug war gore is part of their school day,” Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-tijuana25-2008oct25,0,2076621.story (Oct. 25, 2008).
20 . Ibid.
21 . Murray Rothbard, For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp#p94, 112.
22 . Quote can be found at http://www.freedomkeys.com/kneejerk1.htm.
23 . Written in the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7, 1989, and can be found at http://www .freedomkeys.com/kneejerk1.htm.
Lie #12
1 . Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, 386 F.3d 1148 (D.C. Cir. 2004).
2 . Alexander Volokh, “n Guilty Men,” 146 U. Pa. L. Rev., 173 (1997) (quoting from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765–1769).
3 . Noting that the Book of Exodus commands, “The innocent and righteous slay thou not,” Alexander Volokh, “n Guilty Men.”
4 . Coffin v. U.S., 156 U.S. 432, 453 (1895).
5 . Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1, 4 (1951).
6 . Francois Quintard-Morenas, “The Presumption of Innocence in the French and Anglo-American Legal Traditions,” (American Journal of Comparative Law, forthcoming January 2010), p. 34, available at http://works.bepress.com/francois_quintard_morenas/1/.
7 . Ibid., 35.
8 . Wolfish v. Levi, 573 F.2d 118, 124 (2nd Cir. 1978).
9 . Bell v.Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520 (1979).
10 . Quintard-Morenas, “The Presumption of Innocence in the Civil and Common Law Traditions,” 36.
11 . Buzynski v. Oliver, 538 F. 2d 6 (1st Cir. 1976).
12 . Davis v. United States, 160 U.S. 469, 486 (1895).
13 . Leland v. Oregon, 343 U.S. 790 (1952).
14 . Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993).
15 . Herrera, 506 U.S. at 417.
16 . “Government Misconduct,” The Innocence Project, http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Government-Misconduct.php.
17 . Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418, 429 (1979).
18 . http://blog.mises.org.archives/007037.asp; “DEA Returns Tucker’s Cash,” ACLU, www.aclu-nm.org/News_Events/news_10_3_07.html.
19 . U.S. v. $124,700, 05-3295 (8th Cir. 2006).
20 . See my article entitled “The Case Against Military Tribunals,” November 29, 2009, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-napolitano29-2009nov29,0,6594004 .story.
21 . Richard M. Salsman, “The Three Myths of Antitrust, Part 4: ‘Arbitrary Law’,” Capitalism Magazine, http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=616 ( Jul. 16, 2000).
22 . Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Centennial ed. (Signet, 1986), 51.
23 . Thomas E. Woods, Jr., The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery Publishing, 2004), 105.
24 . Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Antitrust Economists’ Paradox,” Austrian Economics Newsletter (Summer 1991), available at http://mises.org/journals/scholar/DiLorenzo. PDF.
25 . Ibid.
26 . D. T. Armentano, “A Politically Incorrect Guide to Antitrust Policy,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/story/2694 (Sept. 15, 2007).
27 . Ibid.
28 . Ibid.
29 . United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, 148 F.2d 416 (2d Cir. 1945).
Lie #13
1 . John Cochran, “New Gun Control Law Is Killer’s Legacy,” ABC News, http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4126152 ( Jan. 12, 2008).
2 . Ibid.
3 . Ibid.
4 . Ibid.
5 . Terence Hunt, “School violence stuns nation,” Boulder Daily Camera (May 21, 1999).
6 . Ibid.
7 . Ibid.
8 . Marc Lacey, “Clinton Recalls Columbine and Pushes for Gun Control,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/13/us/clinton-recalls-columbine-and-pushes-for-gun-control.html?scp=1&sq=clinton%20recalls%20columbine%20 april%2013,%202000&st=cse (Apr. 13, 2000).
9 . Joel Roberts, “University of Texas Tower Sniper Recalled,” CBS News, http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/16/national/main2689785.shtml (Apr. 16, 2007).
10 . Ibid.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Buck Wroten, “University of Texas Tower Shooting, 1966, Buck Wroten,” Memory Archive, http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/University_of_Texas_Tower_Shooting,_1966,_
Buck_Wroten.
13 . Pamela Colloff, “96 Minutes,” TexasMonthly, http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2006-08-01/feature (August 2006).
14 . Ibid.
15 . Joshunda Sanders, “UT students protest gun bill,” statesman.com, http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/ entries/2009/04/16/ut_students_protest_gun_bill.html (Apr. 16, 2009).
16 . “World War II Rationing,” http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm.
17 . Ibid.
18 . Ibid.
19 . “World War II Rationing,” http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1674.html.
20 . William H. Rehnquist, All the Laws but One (New York: Knopf, 1998), 192.
21 . Ibid.
22 . Ibid.
23 . Ibid.
24 . Ibid.
25 . Ibid.
26 . Ibid.
27 . Hirabayashi v. U.S., 320 U.S. 81 (1943).
28 . Rehnquist, All the Laws but One, 198.
29 . Ibid.
30 . Ibid., 200.
31 . Ibid.
32 . Ibid.
33 . Frank H. Wu, “Profiling in the Wake of September 11: The Precedent of the Japanese American Internment,” Criminal Justice Magazine, 17, Issue 2 (Summer 2002), available at http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/cjmag/17-2/japanese.html.
34 . Ibid.
35 . Sue Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: An Assault on Civil Liberties in the Name of Homeland Security,” The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/HL748.cfm (Jun. 10, 2002).
36 . “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001, http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf.
37 . Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act.”
38 . “Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) Turns Governors into Dictators,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., http://www.aapsonline.org/ testimony/emerpower.htm (Dec. 3, 2001).
39 . “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001, http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf.
40 . Ibid.
41 . Ibid.
42 . Amitai Etzioni, How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?, (New York: Routledge, 2005), 89.
43 . “Questions and Answers: Travel and Quarantine,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/qa/travel.htm (May 3, 2005).
44 . Etzioni, How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?, 89–90.
45 . Ibid., 90.
46 . Ron Paul, “International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse,” Inforwars, http://www.infowars.com/international-bailout-brings-us-closer-to-economic-collapse ( Jun. 24, 2009).
47 . L. Gordon Crovitz, RICO Racket (Washington D.C.: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1989), 18.
48 . Ibid., 20.
49 . Samuel A. Alito in Crovitz, RICO Racket, 1–2.
50 . Ibid., 3.
51 . William Anderson and Candice E. Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem,” Reason magazine, http://www.reason.com/news/show/29099.html (April 2004).
52 . William Anderson, “Mick Vick and the Feds,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson194.html (Aug. 20, 2007).
53 . Anderson and Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem.”
54 . William Anderson, “Aschroft and Justice: Mutual Exclusives,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson55.html (Aug. 30, 2002).
55 . “High court won’t hear charges of RICO-misuse in suits,” LegalNewsLine.com, http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/202624-high-court-wont-hear-charges-of-rico-misuse-in-suits (Oct. 16, 2007).
Lie #14
1 . President Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to sending American troops to fight in World War II.
2 . Ibid.
3 . Anne Leland and Mari-Jana Oboroceanu, “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics,” Congressional Research Service, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf (Sept. 15, 2009).
4 . This section of the chapter is largely based on the book entitled Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, Robert B. Stinnett (New York: Touchstone, 2000).
5 . “The McCollum Memo” (Oct. 7, 1940), which can be found at http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html.
6 . Donald E. Schmidt, The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898–2005 (Algora Publishing: 2005), 144.
7 . “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics.”
8 . President Roosevelt attended Columbia Law School, but passed the New York State Bar Exam before completing his studies, and never graduated.
9 . According to Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution, “The Congress has the Power To . . . declare War” (emphasis added). The Constitution nowhere grants such authority to the President, or any other government official or entity.
10 . This section of the chapter is largely based on Scott McClellan’s What Happened? (New York: Public Affairs, 2008). McClellan was one of President George W. Bush’s press secretaries. His book recounts his experiences at the Bush White House and Washington’s culture of deception.
Lie #15
1 . President George W. Bush.
2 . Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466, 473 (2004) (citations omitted).
3 . Doernberg, et al., Federal Courts, Federalism and Separation of Powers, 4th ed. (St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008), 1064.
4 . Hamdi, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
5 . Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (New York: Random House, 2008), 199.
6 . Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 243 F. Supp. 2d 527 (E.D. Va. 2002).
7 . Ibid., 243 F. Supp. 2d at 536.
8 . Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 532.
9 . Ibid., 542 U.S. at 536.
10 . Toobin, The Nine, 275.
11 . Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004).
12 . Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction, 906–7.
13 . Toobin, The Nine, 270.
14 . Ibid.
15 . Rasul, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
16 . Shafiq Rasul was actually released before the decision was handed down, but remained as lead plaintiff.
17 . Toobin, The Nine, 269.
18 . Ibid.
19 . Hamdan, 548 U.S. 557 (2006).
20 . Boumediene, 128 U.S. 2229 (2008).
21 . In January 2009, Susan J. Crawford, a top Bush administration official, stated that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. According to Crawford, Qahtani was subjected to nudity, sleep deprivation, sustained isolation, and prolonged exposure to cold. Qahtani currently has an action pending in federal court, challenging his confinement. (Source: Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate, “Detainee’s Lawyers to Get Interrogation Tapes,” Washington Post [Oct. 6, 2009]).
22 . Vice President Cheney, in an interview with Nightline, http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IraqCoverage/story?id=1419206 (Dec. 18, 2005).
23 . Elizabeth Holtzman, “The Impeachment of George W. Bush,” The Nation, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman ( Jan. 11, 2006).
24 . Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
25 . Ibid.
26 . Ibid.
27 . Philippe Sands, Torture Team, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 8.
28 . Ibid., 7–8.
29 . Ibid., 7.
30 . Ibid., 8.
31 . Ibid., 9.
32 . Ibid., 13.
33 . Ibid.
34 . Ibid.
35 . John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff, “The Roots of Torture,” Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/id/105387 (May 24, 2004).
36 . Ibid.
37 . Ibid.
38 . Ibid.
39 . Ibid.
40 . Ibid.
41 . Ibid.
42 . Ibid.
43 . Ibid.
44 . Ibid.
45 . Ibid.
46 .
David Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,” New York Review (Oct. 8, 2009) (written Sept. 10, 2009).
47 . Ibid.
48 . Ibid.
49 . Ibid.
50 . Ibid.
51 . Ibid.
52 . Ibid.
53 . Ibid.
54 . Ibid.
55 . Ibid.
56 . Ibid.
57 . Sands, Torture Team, 3.
58 . Ibid.
59 . Ibid., 3–4.
60 . Ibid., 5.
61 . Ibid.
62 . Bryan Walsh, “Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma,” Time.com, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1892721,00.html (Apr. 20, 2009).
63 . Ibid.
64 . Ibid.
65 . Ibid.
66 . Ibid.
67 . Ibid.
68 . It is interesting to note that Cheney and his general counsel, David Addington, theorized that torture could not actually be considered torture unless the subject suffered a near-death experience. A CIA doctor, however, noted that torture always constitutes a near-death experience. Therefore, Cheney and the Bush administration had actually been violating their own rationale.
69 . Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers.”
70 . Ibid.
71 . Ibid.
72 . Ibid.
73 . Ibid.
74 . Ibid.
75 . Ibid.
76 . Ibid.
77 . Ibid.
78 . Ibid.
79 . Ibid.
80 . Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003).
81 . Ibid.
82 . Ibid.
83 . Ibid.
84 . Ibid.
85 . Ibid.
86 . Ibid.
87 . Ibid.
88 . Ibid.
89 . Ibid.
90 . Ibid.
Lie #16
1 . Stone, et al., The First Amendment, 7.
2 . Ibid., 8.
3 . Eric Foner, “The Most Patriotic Act,” The Nation, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011008/foner (Sept. 20, 2001).
4 . FISA §1803(a).
5 . FISA 50 U.S.C. §1802(a)(1)(B).
6 . Others were split or refilled with further information. Electronic Privacy Information Centre, table of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Orders 1979–2007, available at http://epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/fisa_stats.html.
7 . Section 218 of the Patriot Act (50 U.S.C. 1804 of FISA).
8 . Pen American Center—Discussion of Patriot Act provisions available at http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64.