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Association of American University Presses
"A WARNING: Publishing may still be hazardous to your health. A lot of angry ink has been spilled over the U.S. Treasury Department's bizarre ruling last fall that a publisher who corrected the spelling in a manuscript from Iran could be guilty of trading with the enemy and subject to serious criminal penalties—up to $500,000 in fines and 10 years in prison."
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pen.org
Office of Foreign Assets Control, part of the Treasury Department, stunned the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) by declaring simple editing functions, from reordering sentences to correcting grammar, were prohibited services.
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AAUP
Background on the lawsuit: Associaltion of American University Presses and other publishers versus The office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury.
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DOJ Detainees Denied Basic Rights (2150k PDF)
DOJ’s Inspector General finds that hundreds of illegal immigrants with no connection to terrorism were imprisoned under harsh conditions without due process, access to counsel, and other basic constitutional rights.
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CIA in USA
Domestic spy role for CIA and Pentagon sought by Bush.
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Edit and Perish (17k PDF)
Books from a select list of countries may be published, but in the name of security, a law prohibits the editing of the work, even for grammmar. "Its practical effects do nothing to penalize the governments of sanctioned countries and everything to harm the very people who are most interested in a free and open exchange of literary and scientific ideas."
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