This Week's Links

• On Monday, major First Amendment figure Irving Feiner passed away. [The New York Times]
• Leon Panetta's Senate hearings are posted on the C-SPAN website, for those who care. [C-SPAN]
• Barack Obama writes an op-ed for the Washington Post about the stimulus bill. It looks like he's going to be taking a more active role in the debate from now on. [The Washington Post]
• The Department of Justice is changing. [The New York Times]
• The ACLU debunks a few myths about Guantanamo. [ACLU]. Their website on the topic is worth a read, too. [ACLU].
• According to Reuters, "Two senior British judges accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening to end intelligence cooperation with Britain if they published evidence about the alleged torture of a Guantanamo detainee." [Reuters]
• Guantanamo detainee Benyam Mohammad alleges abuse in Moroccan prison. [The Guardian]
• Debunking some more myths about the effectiveness of torture. [Vanity Fair]
• Scott Horton discusses the British judges linked above. [Harper's]
• Don't mess with Obama's French Fries. [Boston Phoenix]