America the Torture State in which those in power can do as they please.

And justice for the few-

Flag image by way of Alternet.org Under America's New Corporatism (Fascism) Corporation's rights come before rights of individuals whether American citizens or not-
Is this what America's Founding Fathers would be proud of...
Strange how so many US Feminists are concerned about the rights of women in Muslim countries while ignoring the plight of women in Corporate America-Hillary Clinton is probably happy since she too favors Corporations over their employees ...

...Woman Gang-Raped by 7 Halliburton Employees "Signed Away" Her Right to Sue? How Justice Has Become the Privilege of Corporations

Access to justice – like access to elected office, let alone a pundit's perch – is becoming a perk just for the rich and powerful.

at Alternet, July 4, 2011

Over 100 detainees died during U.S. interrogations, dozens due directly to interrogation abuse. Gen. Barry McCaffrey said: "We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A." Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the official investigation into detainee abuse, wrote: "there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."

Thanks to the Obama DOJ, that is no longer in question. The answer is resoundingly clear: American war criminals, responsible for some of the most shameful and inexcusable crimes in the nation's history -- the systematic, deliberate legalization of a worldwide torture regime -- will be fully immunized for those crimes.

Quote from: Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded BY GLENN GREENWALD at Salon.com, July 1, 2011

President Obama Independence Day gift To America: When American Officials Torture and abuse detainees /POWs it is by definition legal and moral given America's Divine Mission.
Since God is on America's side how could it be accused of performing immoral or illegal actions.
The US is only as it were answerable to God and not man.

The Obama administration in defending the Bush/Cheney administrations use of torture has become their partner in crime and as aiding and giving comfort to these criminals after the fact and has therefore joined the Bush/Cheney Regime on the dark side.

America's use of torture since 9/11 which should be treated as War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity are now being justified in the name of National Security. When America uses torture there are to be no negative consequences for those ordering or those who give a legal venere for torture and those who did the actual torture are all excempt from any type of further investigations or legal proceedings.

Once again it appears that torture or abuse of any incarcerated individuals is wrong when those actions are committed by other nations but not by the US or its allies.

So given this "white Wash" by the Obama administration and the US legislatures and the DOJ in regards to torture and abuse it is once again left to other nations to bring these criminals to justice.
Unfortunately other nations are too afraid of the US to take any substantive actions against those who have committed and those who may still be committing criminal acts and those in the future who may commit such actions are now pre-emptively pardoned .

Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded BY GLENN GREENWALD at Salon.com, July 1, 2011

In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder -- under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House -- announced that three categories of individuals responsible for Bush-era torture crimes would be fully immunized from any form of criminal investigation and prosecution: (1) Bush officials who ordered the torture (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld); (2) Bush lawyers who legally approved it (Yoo, Bybee, Levin), and (3) those in the CIA and the military who tortured within the confines of the permission slips they were given by those officials and lawyers (i.e., "good-faith" torturers). The one exception to this sweeping immunity was that low-level CIA agents and servicemembers who went so far beyond the torture permission slips as to basically commit brutal, unauthorized murder would be subject to a "preliminary review" to determine if a full investigation was warranted -- in other words, the Abu Ghraib model of justice was being applied, where only low-ranking scapegoats would be subject to possible punishment while high-level officials would be protected.

...Consider what's being permanently shielded from legal accountability. The Bush torture regime extended to numerous prisons around the world, in which tens of thousands of mostly Muslim men were indefinitely imprisoned without a whiff of due process, and included a network of secret prisons -- "black sites" -- purposely placed beyond the monitoring reach of even international human rights groups, such as the International Red Cross.

Over 100 detainees died during U.S. interrogations, dozens due directly to interrogation abuse. Gen. Barry McCaffrey said: "We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A." Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the official investigation into detainee abuse, wrote: "there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."

Thanks to the Obama DOJ, that is no longer in question. The answer is resoundingly clear: American war criminals, responsible for some of the most shameful and inexcusable crimes in the nation's history -- the systematic, deliberate legalization of a worldwide torture regime -- will be fully immunized for those crimes. And, of course, the Obama administration has spent years just as aggressively shielding those war criminals from all other forms of accountability beyond the criminal realm: invoking secrecy and immunity doctrines to prevent their victims from imposing civil liability, exploiting their party's control of Congress to suppress formal inquiries, and pressuring and coercing other nations not to investigate their own citizens' torture at American hands.

All of those efforts, culminating in yesterday's entirely unsurprising announcement, means that the U.S. Government has effectively shielded itself from even minimal accountability for its vast torture crimes of the last decade. Without a doubt, that will be one of the most significant, enduring and consequential legacies of the Obama presidency.

On the growth of hackers becoming more politically motivated
a thousand julianne Assange's
From WikiLeaks to SB 1070 - The Rise of the New Global Hacktivists by: Justine Sharrock, New America Media July 3,2011

When the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow tweeted last December, “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops,” many in the mainstream media rolled their eyes and dismissed his words as hacker hyperbole

...The first new batch of classified documents leaked last Thursday came from Arizona law enforcement and Border Patrol, in protest of Arizona’s anti-immigration policies. The next day, Operation Anti-Security released massive amounts of information from NATO, the U.S. Navy, the FBI, and AOL.

Anonymous has successfully leaked information before, including more than 10,000 “top secret” emails from Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 3 and emails from Bank of America in March, but the new campaign will be exponentially larger.

As law enforcement and news organizations raced to identify the main instigators, LulzSec, a highly active six-person splinter group, announced that it was disbanding, though its members remained active under the Anonymous banner. The move was seen as an attempt to shift attention away from members’ identities so that the contents of the leaked documents would instead become the story.

Motives Remain Misunderstood

Though the hacktivists are no longer underestimated, they’re still misunderstood. They are often depicted as a nefarious cabal of criminal masterminds, but in reality they are young political activists who have found a way to use their tech skills to make a serious impact on a global scale. In the process, they have taken traditional protest methods, such as civil disobedience, shock tactics and mass coordinated action, to a new levels of effectiveness.

“You're a poor guy behind your computer with other people you don't even know, and all together, we can fucking DDoS [distributed denial-of-service attack] any organization,” explains “hayop,” an Anonymous member who runs Operation Leakspin, a project aimed at raising awareness of potentially important and previously overlooked WikiLeaks cables. “NATO considers us a ‘global threat’ and the biggest cyber-attack danger after Iran. No one can stop a DDoS attack, even the CIA.”

...In Defense of WikiLeaks

Anonymous first gained fame for coming to the defense of WikiLeaks by crashing the websites of Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon when those companies blocked Assange’s supporters from making contributions to pay his legal bills and keep WikiLeaks operating.

The hacktivists have since thrown themselves into an array of issues, including censorship and privacy, racial profiling, the revolutions in the Middle East, and the global financial collapse.

Anonymous has brought down government and financial websites in countries around the world, including Australia, Malaysia, as well as Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt in support of antigovernment protests. They have hacked Monsanto, Bank of America, and Koch Industries, one of the largest funders of right-wing political causes and candidates, including union-busting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

...New members are constantly being recruited. The Operation New Blood project encourages anyone “from computer users who are constantly searching for the 'any key', to users who build and design supercomputers (ie Watson)” to join. They posted a downloadable DIY kit including step-by-step tutorials and a “Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.”

Meanwhile, in its announcement of Operation Anti-Security last week, the group said, “We encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. If you're aware of the corruption, expose it now.”

...As the group’s efforts have heated up, so have government attempts to crack down.
Recently proposed U.S. legislation would provide 20-year sentences for hackers who "endanger national security.

In the past seven months, 40 suspects, including some minors, have arrested in the Turkey, Spain and the United Kingdom. The FBI launched an ongoing investigation in November. Last Tuesday, federal agents conducted a raid on a Virginia-based server warehouse in which they mistakenly also took down unrelated websites including DigitalOne. The FBI has refused to comment on Anonymous or its activities.