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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • As we unearthed information about new incidents, we filed FOIA requests for related records. In response, we were often told that, unless we could provide names, especially those of the perpetrators, agencies couldn’t carry out searches for documents. When we provided names, some departments refused to release records, citing the privacy rights of the people we had identified. We learned that many cases were handled nonjudicially—essentially as personnel matters—and that those records were exempt from FOIA. Cases that ended in acquittal or dismissal were also exempt from FOIA, and the files often destroyed. Many of the most basic records that would be easily obtained in any civilian courthouse in America are beyond reach in the military-justice system.




  • “It breaks my heart as a Democrat because I thought human rights matter for everyone,” said Ahwal, who’s of Palestinian descent and on the national board of the Westland-based American Federation of Ramallah Palestine (AFRP), one of the oldest Palestinian American groups.

    “She’s better than Biden,” Ahwal said of Harris. “She’s using words like Palestinian dignity, but these are words when we continue to send weapons.”

    That these people are willing to hear what these voters have to say is a positive, imo.