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Susan Schmidt

Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo to Congress

Susan Schmidt | Washington Post | June 8, 2004

Angry Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called on Ashcroft to provide the document, saying leaked portions that have appeared in news reports suggest the Bush administration is reinterpreting U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions prohibiting torture. [more]

US Charges Saudi Man with Terrorism

Susan Schmidt | Washington Post | January 10, 2004

"Sami Omar Hussayen, a doctoral candidate in computer science in a University of Idaho program sponsored by the National Security Agency, is accused of creating websites and an e-mail group that disseminated messages from him and two radical clerics in Saudi Arabia." [more]

A Broken Body, a Broken Story, Pieced Together

Dana Priest, William Booth and Susan Schmidt | Washington Post | June 17, 2003

"An investigation reveals that Pvt. Lynch — still in the hospital after 67 days — suffered bone-crushing injuries in a crash during the ambush." [more]

Terror War Going More Covert

Susan Schmidt and Thomas E. Ricks | Washington Post | September 17, 2002

"The Pentagon is preparing to consolidate control of most of the global war on terrorism under the U.S. Special Operations Command, according to government sources, signaling an intensified but more covert approach to the next phase in the battle against al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups." [more]

Court: Gov't Lied to Obtain Wiretaps

Dan Eggen and Susan Schmidt | Washington Post | August 23, 2002

"The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling released yesterday." [more]

Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret

Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt | Washington Post | March 1, 2002

"President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.