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Recht-Gruppen Wrangle mit CIA überschuß „Geist-Gefangene“
Samstag, den 26. April 2008 Besprechen Sie diesen Report in den RINF Foren >
Die Ablehnung kam letzte Woche in der Antwort des CIA zu einem Prozeß, der durch drei Gruppen der menschlichen Rechte, Amnestie internationale USA (AIUSA) geholt wurde, die Mitte für konstitutionelle Rechte (CCR) und die internationale menschliche Recht-Klinik an der New York Universitätsschule des Gesetzes (NYU IHRC). Der CIA ordnete eine Bewegung mit dem Gericht ein, damit ein summarisches Verfahren den Prozeß beendet und vermeidet, mehr als 7.000 Dokumente umzudrehen, die auf seiner geheimen „Geist“ Verzögerung und außerordentlichen Wiedergabeprogrammen bezogen werden. Der CIA behauptete, daß er nicht die Dokumente freigeben mußte, weil viele aus Korrespondenz mit dem Weißen Haus oder oberen George W. bestehen Bush Leitung Beamte oder, weil sie zwischen den Parteien sind, die Rechtsberatung auf den Programmen suchen, einschließlich Anleitung auf der Legalität bestimmter Befragungverfahren. Der CIA bestätigte, daß er - und empfangen - um Rechtsberatung von den Rechtsanwälten am Justizministerium Büro der zugelassenen Ratschläge hinsichtlich sind dieser Verfahren bat. Der Fall ist für eine Anzahl von Gründen bedeutend. Unter ihnen sagte CCR Executivdirektor Vincent Warren, kennzeichnet es, das erste mal der CIA „bestätigt hat, daß er gut über 7.000 Dokumenten hat, die auf der Folterung und dem Verschwinden der Männer beziehen“. Und knapper Goering, AIUSA der Executivdirektor des älteren Abgeordneten, gesagt, „gegeben was wir bereits über die Dokumente kennen, die von den Bush Leitung Beamten geschrieben werden, die versuchen, Folterung und andere Verbrechen der menschlichen Rechte zu rechtfertigen, man benötigt nicht eine fruchtbare Phantasie, festzustellen, daß der reale Grund, damit das Ablehnen diese Dokumente hat mehr freigibt, zum mit dem Vermeiden von Freigabe der kriminellen Tätigkeit als Staatssicherheit zu tun.“ Er ersuchte um den CIA „Kongreß, aufsichtausschüsse stonewalling zu stoppen und die lebenswichtigen Dokumente freizugeben, die bezogen wurden auf dem Programm der geheimen detentions, der Wiedergaben und der Folterung.“ Die drei Organisationen der menschlichen Rechte ordnen ihren Warteschriftsatz bei Gericht folgender Monat ein. Die Gruppen ordneten ihre Freiheit Informationen Tat (FOIA) der Anträge letzter Juni mit einigen US ein Regierungsagenturen, einschließlich den CIA. Diese Anträge suchten Informationen über Einzelpersonen, die - oder sind gewesen - durch die US gehalten government or detained with U.S. involvement, and about whom there is no public record. The requests also sought information about the government’s legal justifications for its secret detention and extraordinary rendition programme. Comprehensive information about the identities and locations of prisoners in CIA custody — as well as the conditions of their detention and the specific interrogation methods used against them — has never been publicly revealed. Emi MacLean, a CCR attorney, told IPS, “The CIA has been running a programme of enforced disappearance and torture. What we are asking for is fundamental to a democratic society — some essential transparency and accountability. We need to know what is being done in our name. Indeed, the documents withheld by the government demonstrate that this basic accountability is what they have been worried about from the very beginning.” “The CIA has employed illegal techniques such as torture, enforced disappearances, and extraordinary rendition,” said Meg Satterthwaite, director of the NYU IHRC. “It cannot use FOIA exemptions as a shield to hide its violations of U.S. and international law.” In its legal filings, the CIA acknowledged that this programme “will continue”. Some prisoners have been transferred to prisons in other countries for proxy detention where they face the risk of torture and where they continue to be held secretly, without charge or trial. Human rights reports indicate that the fate and whereabouts of at least 30 people believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody remain unknown. In September 2006, President Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of CIA-operated secret prisons. At the same time, 14 detainees from these facilities were transferred to Guantánamo and several more have arrived since. The administration has admitted to using so-called “alternative interrogation procedures” on those held in the CIA programme, including waterboarding. The international community and the United States, in other contexts, have unequivocally deemed these techniques torture. One of the detainees of particular interest in this case is a CCR client, Majid Khan. Khan emigrated from his native Pakistan to the U.S. in 1996 and is a legal U.S. resident. On a trip to Pakistan to visit his wife, Khan was abducted by Pakistani officials and transferred to one of the CIA’s secret prisons. Among those transferred to Guantanamo Bay to be tried before a Military Commission, he was the first of the so-called “high value” detainees to have legal representation. Congress has also been unable to obtain CIA records. The few documents released in the human rights groups’ lawsuit demonstrate a pattern of withholding information from Congress. In a pointed 2003 bipartisan letter, then-Chair and Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence requested that the then CIA Director George Tenet provide senior level briefings on the treatment of, and information obtained by, three men known to be held in secret CIA detention.” He told the CIA that their committee was “frustrated with the quality of the information” provided in past briefings. The CIA appears to have avoided answering detailed requests for specific information, responding instead with form letters and references to briefings. In 2005, these practices led to a forceful letter from Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, now the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who was attempting to investigate CIA involvement in detainee deaths. In his letter, Levin noted that “The lack of CIA cooperation with the investigations to date has left significant omissions in the record.” The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. It allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the U.S. Government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures, but grants a number of exemptions to Federal agencies. Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA over “Ghost Prisoners” This entry was posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 4:48 am and is filed under War & Terrorism News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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