PAMELA HESS CIA Director Michael Hayden defended his agency's interrogation practices Tuesday as political pressure mounted on President Bush's attorney general nominee to reject a technique that allegedly was part of the CIA's interrogation program. "Our programs are as lawful as they are valuable," Hayden said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. "The best sources of information on terrorists and their plans are the terrorists themselves." Hayden ...

CSIS exceeded mandate and violated the rights of Canadian `terrorist,' review panel reports Jim Bronskill The Canadian Security Intelligence Service violated the constitutional rights of a citizen and strayed beyond its security mandate into the realm of law enforcement, says a federal watchdog. In its annual report tabled late yesterday, the Security Intelligence Review Committee said Canada's spy agency "arbitrarily detained" Mohammed Mansour Jabarah in contravention of ...

Patrick Wintour The Guardian Nick Clegg, the odds-on favourite to become Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday announced that he will break the law and refuse to provide details of his identity if the government presses ahead with plans to make ID cards compulsory. Drawing a parallel with resistance to the poll tax, he said he would also urge his fellow MPs and Lib Dem councils ...

By Richard Palmer A COUPLE who saw a white Fiat car zig-zagging out of the underpass where Diana was killed yesterday identified a Vietnamese man as its probable driver. Georges and Sabine Dauzonne were giving evidence to the London inquest by video link from Paris. They independently picked out Le Van Thanh, a ...

RINF Alternative News  Smoking gun testimony, demolition detonations reported by top brass in official statement The rank of this witness is: CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE OF BATTALION 46 CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE QUOTE : "SOMEWHERE AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THERE WAS THIS ORANGE AND RED FLASH COMING OUT. "INITIALLY IT WAS JUST ONE FLASH. THEN THIS FLASH JUST KEPT POPPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BUILDING AND THAT BUILDING HAD STARTED TO EXPLODE. ...

David Miller A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a 'considerable contribution' to the ...

Iraq war veteran and experienced demolitions expert blows the cover on 9/11 inside job Meet Torin Wolf. He has a broad and varied background as a US Army Combat Nurse during Operation Iraqi Freedom,....       ...building construction contractor, certified structural welder, certified asbestos and hazardous materials worker, experienced demolitions expert, teacher, radio show host, and well studied ...

I mention Lindsey Williams' revelations in a few articles on the phony "Peak Oil" scam promoted by CIA agent Michael Ruppert and the Highway Robber Barrons known as American Oil companies. Lindsey discovered from top oil company executives in the early 1970s, that there is enough oil under Gull Island alone (Prudhoe Bay, Alasaka) to meet all of the energy needs of the United States for the next 200 ...

Iain Thomson Boeing and Ford have successfully tested a new hydrogen aircraft engine with a simulated flight that lasted nearly four days. The project, called the High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft, is being run to test the feasibility of having unmanned craft in permanent flight to act as communications systems that can be quickly and cheaply set up where coverage by traditional means isn't available. "This test could help ...

By Jeffrey St Clair and Joshua Frank The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to Iraq to topple Saddam's regime, they not only ordered these men and women to commit crimes against humanity, they also commanded them to perpetrate crimes against nature. The first Gulf War had ...

Seven years since the Blair slow hand-clap, the WI is getting tough in Wales By Rhodri Clark  GETTING a slow hand-clap from the massed ranks of Women’s Institute members was one of the first public displays of discontent with Tony Blair. And while it was seen as a pivotal moment in his premiership, it has also proved a turning point for the WI, which had languished for decades under its “ ...

It's a matter of alarm and concern that there are so many people out there who still believe that the BBC is a balanced and fair-minded source of news and current affairs. That belief was, at best ill-founded and at worst, typical of the hypocrisy of a British self-image of decency and ...

According to government documents studied by The New York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it didn’t have any such technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.What is the “communities of interest” technology? It’s spelled out very clearly in a 2001 research ...

ElBaradei says he has no evidence Tehran is developing nuclear weapons Indymedia (Hidden from newswire) The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster. "We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization," said Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the International Atomic ...

EMMA JUDD Swansea's police are to go back to class in a new drive to have community police based at every comprehensive school in the city within a year. The plan was announced by Chief Superintendent Mark Mathias during a speech he made at the annual meeting of the Age Concern Swansea charity at St Mary's Church in the city centre. He said it would be an opportunity for the officers to ...