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Thursday, March 20th, 2008An Italian court ruled the trial of 26 U.S. intelligence agents involved in the rendition of suspected terrorist sympathizer Abu Omar would resume in July. The CIA agents are being tried in abstentia for allegedly kidnapping Abu Omar in Milan in 2003 and spiriting him off to Egypt for a presumably forceful interrogation. Judge Oscar Magi Wednesday ordered the trial to resume April 18, at which time he would consider ...
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McCain the Warmonger?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008If you've followed Senator John McCain at all, you've heard about his tendency to, well, explode. He's erupted at numerous Senate colleagues, including many Republicans, at the slightest provocation. "The thought of his being President sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me," wrote Republican Senator Thad Cochran, shortly before endorsing McCain. You've heard about his penchant for ...
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Yemeni man accuses CIA of torture
Saturday, March 15th, 2008A Yemeni national accused American secret agents of subjecting him to various forms of torture during nearly three years of CIA detention, in a statement released by Amnesty International yesterday. Khaled Abdu Ahmed Saleh Al Maqtari was arrested by American soldiers in Fallujah, Iraq, in January 2004, along with around 60 other people, he told the London-based human rights group. He said he was transferred to ...
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CIA rendition flight spotted in Hungary
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008A Hungarian newspaper Wednesday ran a picture of a Boeing 737 allegedly used for CIA rendition flights in central and Eastern Europe. The daily Nepszabadsag ran a photo of a white plane bearing the registration number N34315. That aircraft was allegedly used to ferry terror suspects from the Middle East and South Asia to the United States, the Hungarian news service, MTI reported. The photo is from Budapest's Ferihegy airport and ...
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CIA Holocaust Claims Twenty Million Victims
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008The world's number one terrorist organization, the CIA has committed heinous acts of terrorism abroad, murdering critics of US foreign and domestic policies and has done it on behalf of an increasing tiny, privileged American elite. This elite is a tiny one percent which owns more than the combined wealth the remaining 95% [See: the L-Curve]. On behalf of this tiny, privileged base, the CIA has placed itself ...
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Is Australia helping with CIA rendition flights?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Is Australia unwittingly helping the US Central Intelligence Agency with the notorious secret flights known as renditions? Australian politicians and defense officials are refusing to address claims that Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) servicemembers are unwittingly involved in CIA flights that transport terror suspects from Afghanistan to face possible torture, Australia's Seven News reports. Renditions are opposed by Australia's government, but as Chris Reason reports, the RAAF admits it has no idea ...
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Horrifying and unnecessary mistreatment of prisoners
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Herald Tribune In the next few days, President George W. Bush is expected to again claim the right to order mistreatment of prisoners that any civilized person would regard as torture. Bush is planning to veto a law that would require the CIA and all the intelligence services to abide by the restrictions on holding and interrogating prisoners contained in the U.S Army Field Manual. Bush says the army ...
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The workings of the CIA
Thursday, February 28th, 2008By Joseph Benham When George H.W. Bush first sought the Republican nomination for president, a friend announced that he was leaving a high-ranking Central Intelligence Agency job to help the man we now know as Bush One and Bush 41. “He was the best director we ever had,” and was certain to be a great president, my Agency pal insisted. Easily said; less easily done. Bush ...
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CIA Waterboarding Probe Revealed By Feds
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Bush White House Maintains Waterboarding Was Legal When Used The Justice Department has opened an internal investigation into whether its top officials improperly authorized or reviewed the CIA's use of waterboarding when interrogating terror suspects, according to documents released Friday. The investigation was revealed at the request of Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. A Justice Department spokesman, however, said the inquiry has been ongoing for ...
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How the C.I.A. Played Dirty Tricks With Culture
Thursday, February 21st, 2008By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN New York Times Many people remember reading George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'' in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it ''impossible to say which was which.'' That ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. Another example of ...
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US judge blocks CIA flight case
Thursday, February 21st, 2008BBC A US judge has dismissed a case alleging that a subsidiary of Boeing illegally helped the CIA fly terror suspects abroad on rendition flights. The American Civil Liberties Union brought the case against Jeppesen Dataplan, saying it "falsified flight plans... to avoid public scrutiny". But a San Francisco judge halted the case, as the CIA director had urged. "The very subject matter of this case is a state ...
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CIA Flights Landed on British Island
Thursday, February 21st, 2008CIA And Britain Admit U.S. Rendition Flights Used British Territory In 2002 Reversing an earlier claim, the CIA has acknowledged that two U.S. rendition flights carrying two alleged terrorists refueled on a U.S. base in British territory in 2002. CIA Director Michael Hayden told agency employees in a message on Thursday that information previously provided to Britain that no such flights used British airspace or soil since ...
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Family wants answers to CIA agent’s mysterious death
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Too many secrets: Family wants answers to CIA agent's mysterious 1982 death By KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian
Kent (Dan) Daniels holds a photograph of his brother Jerry Daniels at the gravesite in the Missoula Cemetery where a casket said to hold the remains of Jerry is buried. “It would be great to see inside ...
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Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Congress must remedy its abysmal record of investigating the Bush administration on prisoner abuse and torture. By Anthony D. Romero It's now a matter of public record: the Central Intelligence Agency has tortured detainees held in U.S. custody. In the past week, the Bush administration announced that it is seeking the death penalty for six men allegedly involved with the 9/11 terrorist attacks; evidence against them was gathered through coercive, ...
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President Bush to veto torture Bill
Saturday, February 16th, 2008By Kerry Sheridan in Washington US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding. "The President will veto that Bill," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured al-Qaeda terrorists." "Bush doesn't favour torture" The Democratic-led Senate yesterday voted 51-45 in favor of a Bill calling for the Central ...
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