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I participated in some cases of national security and the most controversial human rights in this century The involvement of Americans who are fighting against overcoming the government and sometimes chaos-issues that involve torture abroad, secret mass monitoring, drone strikes on innocent civilians, and covering up the death of friendly fire of American panels. As a human rights lawyer, I saw some of the worst behavior by government employees, military officials and private contractors – this is often done under the curtain of weight to protect the country from legendary time bombs. My unfortunate position is the innocent Americans who were subjected to abuse, confusion, or killing in the name of flexible, expanding, glandular and burns words such as “terrorists”, “internal threats”, “enemies inside”, “illegal” and “traitors”. I have been a direct witness to our nation decades ago to chaos. I know exactly How did we get here.

President Obama’s decision “to aspire, not back” (ethics adopted by former former and caliphs alike) the past who carried out torture engineers and covered torture and other human rights atrocities, paved the way for the indisputable incursions of law on the rights of basic constitutional explosion and political freedoms. The horrific conditions for the arrest of Kilmar ábrego García in Salvadwan Golaj are the logical conclusion caused by impunity for the terrible government behavior.

After September 11, American John Wicker Linde became the first American prisoner in the war of Afghanistan. The images were distributed all over the world naked, blindfolded, tied, and connected to a plate with adhesive tape by its American kidnappers. This was the first glimpse of the torture that the Americans sponsored and did not repent; Instead, we cleared Lind. A few of us who objected to his treatment were disciplined, their ranks, launched, Or in my caseIt was placed under the criminal investigation. The Lindh case was a warning of what was to be followed in America after 10/11.

The George W. Bush administration continued to obtain more than 800 men and children in the American Military Prison at the Gulf Naval Base without charge, access to the lawyer, or judicial review. Meanwhile, the secret internal justice, which was largely called “torture notes”, coined widely “torture notes”, allowing harsh interrogation techniques.

I watched cases in which the government played words of words with the mark that was now charged with the “enemy fighter” to strip the rights of legal procedures for American citizens such as Jose Badilla and Laser Hamdi so that their cases can move in harsh military courts that lack the protection of civil criminal courts. For this reason I deal with Trump stands out about words like “MS-13” and “gang member”. At least at the time, an oral distortion was carried out under the president’s powers. Today, it is under the strength of the ego Donald Trump and so on.

By 2004, the technologies moved from Gitmo to the “black sites” managed by the CIA, a secret external detention network in torture friendly countries such as Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Thailand. The detainees were subject to forced nudity, waterboard, fake executions, genital electricity, anal rape (called “straight nutrition”) and other terror. Journalists ultimately revealed the torture of the torture system with a disapproval of Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq, which includes hundreds of sadistic pictures of naked prisoners stacked in a pyramid, and a convincing prisoner with poles connected to him, a soldier wandering around a prisoner by Liz dogs, and much worse.

In 2009, Barack Obama announced the end of secret detention and harsh interrogation, acknowledging this, “We have tortured some people“However, he also decided”We look forward, not back“In bad actors, no government officials have been held accountable for designing, approving the torture program. John KiriakoDaw the whistle on that. The head of the program, “Al -Damwi”, Gina Hasbil, continued to direct the CIA. The US Senate Intelligence Committee issued a “torture report” for more than 6,700 pages, but a “summary” is severely deprived of all that reached the public. Obama closed the civil suits with the privilege of the secrets of the state, which Trump just protested by rejecting federal judge information about the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador. All all actors have been promoted, followed the writing of books, or moved to better pushing the vehicles with defense or companies.

None of this dark military history has twice made the US military’s detention of Chelsea Manning in a dark dark cage in Kuwait in 2010, and it is later undergoing harsh, inhuman and insignificant treatment that was taught. She suffered from regular tape and almost a year in solitary confinement. I was one of a handful of human rights lawyer to attend the Military Court and issue a ruling.

I was hoping that during the next decade, the pendulum would swing over 11/1 and restore some Equipoise demonstrations. Instead, the United States has brought more criminal cases against press sources more than all previous presidential departments combined. The defendants were all Americans, with large -scale military and government service. More concern, issues were put in place under the old World War Act of 1917. It is more than that, given that Trump has just used more ancient power in wartime, the law of foreign enemies of 1798, to justify the deportations of about 238 Venezuelan to El Salvador a month ago with no clear operation and against the court. (The judge found just a possible reason for the Trump administration to hold a criminal contempt for the court to violate this matter.)

The United States ignored the criminal, civil and humanitarian laws behind many of the violations it discussed that occurred before Abbroglio Ambrego García. However, once lawyers, journalists, human rights/accounting organizations/grievances – grievances – weighing judges to impose legal and constitutional restrictions – the government has obeyed the court’s decisions to provide detainees with their rights, legal procedures, judicial review, and relief of the impurity.

The government eventually dropped the “enemy fighter” sign that it used to create a legal black hole for the detainees. By January 2025, only 15 detainees remained in the notorious Gitmo facility, but Trump wanted to expand it to the detention of 30,000 immigrants. Now he has a wide executive authority, Enabling the Ministry of JusticeSleeping Congress, and Judges who disobey them.

The last Supreme Supreme Court granted the supposed presidential immunity to prosecute all the official works of the president more isolated from unwanted behavior. They are “midnight“7-2 decision this week, the granting of the request may be in an emergency call to prevent additional flights after it is too late. The same Supreme Court has effectively isolated external behavior as long as it had an” official employee. “

Abrego García seems to have exceeded this line. But instead of getting rid of the line and then retreating, Trump doubles the chaos and enjoy the bubble constitutional crisis. History will justify justified the United States for this, whether it is the Republic of Democracy alive or not.