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Λογομαχία ομάδων δικαιωμάτων με τη CIA πέρα από τους «φυλακισμένους φαντασμάτων»
Σάββατο, 26η Απριλίου 2008
Η άρνηση ήρθε την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα κλινική ομάδες στην απάντηση της CIA σε μια δίκη που παρουσιάστηκε από τρεις των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων, τη Διεθνή Αμνηστία ΗΠΑ (AIUSA), το κέντρο για τα συνταγματικά δικαιώματα (CCR) και τη διεθνή των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων στην πανεπιστημιακή σχολή της Νέας Υόρκης του νόμου (NYU IHRC). Η CIA αρχειοθέτησε μια κίνηση με το δικαστήριο για μια συνοπτική κρίση για να τελειώσει τη δίκη και να αποφύγει περισσότερα από 7.000 έγγραφα σχετικά με τη μυστική κράτηση «φαντασμάτων» και τα εξαιρετικά προγράμματα απόδοσής της. Η CIA υποστήριξε ότι δεν έπρεπε να δημοσιεύσει τα έγγραφα επειδή πολλοί αποτελούνται από την αλληλογραφία με το λευκό οίκο ή τον κορυφαίο George W. Ανώτεροι υπάλληλοι διοίκησης των Μπους, ή επειδή είναι μεταξύ των συμβαλλόμενων μερών που επιδιώκουν τις νομικές συμβουλές για τα προγράμματα, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της καθοδήγησης για τη νομιμότητα ορισμένων διαδικασιών ερώτησης. Η CIA επιβεβαίωσε ότι ζήτησε - και λαμβανόμενος - τις νομικές συμβουλές από τους πληρεξούσιους στο τμήμα γραφείου δικαιοσύνης της νομικής συμβουλής σχετικά με αυτές τις διαδικασίες. Η περίπτωση είναι σημαντική για διάφορους λόγους. Μεταξύ τους, εν λόγω CCR τον εκτελεστικό διευθυντή Vincent Warren, χαρακτηρίζει τον πρώτο χρόνο που η CIA «έχει αναγνωρίσει ότι έχει καλά πάνω από 7.000 έγγραφα που αφορούν τα βασανιστήρια και την εξαφάνιση των ατόμων». Και απότομο Goering, ανώτερος αναπληρωτής AIUSA εγκλήματα εκτελεστικός διευθυντής, εν λόγω, «τι ξέρουμε ήδη για τα έγγραφα που γράφονται από τους ανώτερους υπαλλήλους διοίκησης των Μπους που προσπαθούν να δικαιολογήσουμε τα βασανιστήρια και άλλα των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων, ένα δεν χρειάζεται μια εύφορη φαντασία για να καταλήξει στο συμπέρασμα ότι ο πραγματικός λόγος για να αποκαλύψει αυτά τα έγγραφα έχει περισσότερων που κάνουν με την αποφυγή της κοινοποίησης της εγκληματικής δραστηριότητας από την εθνική ασφάλεια.» Κάλεσε τη CIA για «να σταματήσει τις του Κογκρέσου επιτροπές παράλειψης κωλυσιεργιών στη βουλή και να δημοσιεύσει τα ζωτικής σημασίας έγγραφα σχετικά με το πρόγραμμα των μυστικών κρατήσεων, των αποδόσεων, και των βασανιστηρίων.» Οι τρεις οργανώσεις των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων θα αρχειοθετήσουν τη σύνοψη απάντησής τους στο δικαστήριο τον προσεχή μήνα. Οι ομάδες αρχειοθέτησαν τα αιτήματα τον περασμένο Ιούνιο νόμων ελευθερίας τους των πληροφοριών (FOIA) με τις διάφορες ΗΠΑ. κυβερνητικές αντιπροσωπείες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της CIA. These requests sought information about individuals who are — or have been — held by the U.S. 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 Guant?namo 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. Have Your Say: Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA over “Ghost Prisoners” Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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