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De Ruzie van de Groepen van rechten met de CIA over de „Gevangenen van het Spook“
Zaterdag, 26 April, 2008
De weigering kwam vorige week in de reactie van de CIA op een proces dat door drie rechten van de mensgroepen, Amnestie de Internationale V.S. (AIUSA) wordt gebracht, het Centrum voor Constitutionele Rechten (CCR) en de Internationale Kliniek van Rechten van de mens bij de Universitaire School van New York van Wet (NYU IHRC). De CIA diende een motie met het hof voor een summier vonnis in om het proces te beëindigen en te vermijden omkerend meer dan 7.000 documenten met betrekking tot zijn geheime „spook“ detentie en buitengewone vertolkingsprogramma's. De CIA beweerde dat het niet de documenten moest vrijgeven omdat velen uit correspondentie met het Witte Huis of hoogste George W. bestaan Het beleidsambtenaren van Bush, of omdat zij tussen partijen zijn die naar juridisch advies op de programma's, met inbegrip van begeleiding over de wettigheid van bepaalde ondervragingsprocedures streven. De CIA bevestigde dat het - en ontvangen - juridisch advies bij procureurs bij het Ministerie van het Bureau van de Rechtvaardigheid van Wettelijk Advies betreffende deze procedures vroeg. Het geval is significant om een aantal redenen. Onder hen, gezegd CCR Uitvoerende Directeur Vincent Warren, merkt het de eerste keer de CIA „heeft erkend dat het goed meer dan 7.000 documenten heeft die op de marteling en de verdwijning van mensen“ betrekking hebben. En Bondige Goering, AIUSA hogere bovengenoemde afgevaardigde uitvoerende directeur, „Gegeven wat wij reeds over documenten weten die door het beleidsambtenaren worden geschreven die van Bush marteling en andere rechten van de mensmisdaden, proberen te rechtvaardigen vergt geen vruchtbare verbeelding om te besluiten dat de echte reden om te weigeren om deze documenten te onthullen meer heeft met het vermijden van onthulling van misdadige activiteit te doen dan nationale veiligheid.“ Hij nodigde de CIA uit „ophouden en stonewalling congresonoplettendheidscommissies essentiële documenten vrijgeven met betrekking tot het programma van geheime detentions, vertolkingen, en marteling.“ De drie rechten van de mensorganisaties zullen hun reactiememorandum voor het gerecht volgende maand indienen. De groepen dienden hun verzoeken laatste Juni Informatie van het Akte van de Vrijheid van (FOIA) met de verscheidene V.S. in. overheids agentschappen, met inbegrip van de 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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