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« Previous EntriesCIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
By Joby Warrick | A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents released yesterday by congressional investigators....
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Renditions Victim to Sue German Government
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Spiegel | A German-Lebanese victim of the CIA's extraordinary renditions program plans to sue the government in Berlin to force it to issue extradition orders against 13 American intelligence agents involved in his alleged kidnapping.
Khaled el-Masri, the German-Lebanese abducted in Afghanistan as part of the CIA's extraordinary renditions program and detained without reason, is expected to file a lawsuit early ...
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Blackwater’s Private CIA
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
By Jeremy Scahill | This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company's shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in
Baghdad's Nisour Square. But by early 2008, Blackwater had largely receded from the headlines ...
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Hunger strike as protest to Guantánamo charges
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
Last Friday, it was revealed that he was ...
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The ‘War Crimes File’
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Hartford Courant | It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American military and CIA operatives against terror suspects detained in U.S.-run detention centers.
According to a report by the Justice Department's inspector general, FBI agents ...
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Ireland accused of failing on flight rendition
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
RTÉ News | US assurances that Irish airports are not being used for rendition are not worth the paper they are written on, according to the Secretary General of Amnesty International.Speaking to RTÉ News on the publication of Amnesty's annual report, Irene Khan accused European countries like Ireland of failing to put in place safeguards against rendition.
Amnesty International says that despite ...
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CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
Monday, May 19th, 2008
By Joe Kay | A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies.
The investigator is Philip Alston, a New York University professor serving as the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary ...
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Iran busts CIA terror network
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Tehran Times - TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States. In a coordinated operation on May 7, Iranian intelligence agents arrested the terrorist network’s members, who were identified in Fars, Khuzestan, Gilan, West Azerbaijan, and Tehran provinces, the Intelligence Ministry announcement said.
The group’s plans were ...
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Italian PM witness in CIA rendition trial
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A Milan judge ruled Wednesday that Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi, can be called as witnesses in a trial on the alleged abduction of a terrorism suspect by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Berlusconi who returned to office as premier last week was in power in 2003 when an Egyptian imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr - ...
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Judge May Make CIA Torture Memo Public
Friday, May 9th, 2008
AP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issued the order after he had earlier said the 18-page memo did not have to be turned over ...
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CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Reuters | Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
The Justice Department's interpretation shows the Bush administration is contending that the boundaries should have a degree of latitude, the Times ...
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Syrian ambassador says CIA fabricated photos
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Reuters | Syria's ambassador to the United States said Friday that the CIA fabricated pictures allegedly taken inside a secret Syrian nuclear reactor and predicted that in coming weeks the U.S. story about the site would implode from within.
"The photos presented to me yesterday were ludicrous, laughable," Ambassador Imad Moustapha told reporters at his Washington residence.
He refused to say what the ...
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Ecuador slams CIA spy interference
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has blasted the CIA for financing the country's intelligence agencies to pass information to Colombia. "Many of our intelligence agencies have been taken over by the CIA," the Correa said Saturday during his weekly radio address. "Through the CIA, information found here was passed to Colombia to improve their position," he added. A high-ranking intelligence officer has been sacked by the President and ...
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When the truth the CIA tells us is a lie
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008There is an old riddle that goes "I have two coins that total 15 cents and one of them is not a nickel". The answer of course is that the other one is a nickel. So we have a perfect example of telling a limited amount of truth with the intent to deceive and the effect is a lie. This brings us to Michael Hayden, the CIA Director. He ...
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CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work
Monday, March 31st, 2008US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the search ...
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