Ruby Pipeline Project — FERC Notice

From HR:

The proposed Ruby Pipeline project from Wyoming to Oregon will cross many traditional and important places for the Paiute, Shoshone, Modoc, and other Tribes. Please let others know about this FERC/BLM/PG&E project that will irreparably change and forever destroy a large swath of our beautiful homelands. http://www.summitlaketribe.org/Maps.html

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The Torture Memos and the Execution of Indians in the 19th Century

More later on this as I parse through the memos, but it is now apparent that the Bush Administration (namely, to John Yoo) that modern American torture is justified by resort to 19th century American Indian law.

Check out this editorial from the NYTs.

UPDATE: Here is the torture memo, courtesy of the ACLU, and here is the relevant AG opinion mentioned in the NYTs editorial (“Modoc Military Prisoners“), cited on page 7 of the Yoo memorandum.