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CIA Agents Convicted of Kidnapping; Italian Officials Walk Free: Corriere Della Sera,Italy

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:08:59 +0000

Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro has done something no one else has: He has obtained the first convictions involving the CIA practice of ‘rendition.’ For those interested in reading the Italian coverage of yesterday’s first ever convictions for the U.S. government’s ...

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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:07:00 +0000

craigmurray Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be raped with broken bottles The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ...

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22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Remember About the Plame Case

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:46:26 +0000

Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Reponsibility and Ethics in Washington last year sued the Justice Department to ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:52:00 +0000

Sabrina deSousa says U.S. "Betrayed" her and others found guilty in kidnapping.

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Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:00:24 +0000

WASHINGTON Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way. On 72 ...

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Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked Plame ID (AP)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:02:47 +0000

AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI in 2004 he had no idea who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.

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The Associated Press: Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:03:41 +0000

(AP) 1 day ago WASHINGTON The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping. The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in July that CIA officials committed ...

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U.S. Expresses 'Disappointment' Over Italian Court's Ruling in CIA Rendition Case

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:04:14 +0000

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 The U.S. expressed "disappointment" over the kidnapping convictions of 23 Americans, Reuters reported. "We are disappointed by the verdicts against the Americans and Italians charged in Milan for their alleged involvement in the case involving Egyptian cleric ...

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Italian Court Levies Judgment on U.S. Rendition Program

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:02:26 +0000

The US intelligence gathering program known as “extraordinary rendition” was essentially put on trial for the first time - in Italy - and this week the court rendered a guilty verdict.

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Judicial Watch Obtains New CIA Documents on Terrorist Interrogations

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:47:12 +0000

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding the results of the detainee interrogation program. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch ...

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Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:00 +0000

This was done in all of our names and we should all, individually, be deeply and profoundly ashamed: We were receiving CIA intelligence. MI-6 and the CIA share all their intelligence. So I was getting all the CIA intelligence on Uzbekistan and it was saying that detainees had confessed to ...

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AFP: US drone strikes may break international law: UN

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:46:28 +0000

(AFP) 21 hours ago UNITED NATIONS US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. "The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use ...

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The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:47:22 +0000

Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying out one campaign in Afghanistan while the CIA ...

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Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked Plame ID (AP)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:21:27 +0000

AP - Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he had no idea who leaked the CIA identity of Valerie Plame to the news media.

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Dick Cheney's FBI Interview Notes on Valerie Plame Leak

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

The FBI today released notes (pdf) of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's FBI interview on the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. In the interview, Cheney is critical of the CIA . Cheney could not recall 22 things, including, whether he had ever told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame. Via ...

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Castro's sister says she collaborated with CIA

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:04:35 +0000

FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks to reporters about her brother in Miami. Castro, 76, Fidel Castro's younger sister, told Univision's WLTV-23 station in Miami late Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 that she collaborated with the ...

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NYT: Afghan President

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0000

The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who faces a runoff election next week, is on the payroll of the CIA, the New York Times reports, citing unnamed current and former American officials. The Times reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai has provided a variety of services for the CIA for the ...

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Cheney: Sending Wilson To Niger Was "Amateur Hour" At The CIA

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:36:16 +0000

Dick Cheney told FBI investigators that his response to hearing that Joe Wilson had been sent to Niger to assess whether Saddam had tried to buy yellow-cake was that it was "amateur hour" at the CIA. That's according to a summary of the FBI's interview with Cheney, which was conducted as ...

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Karzai’s Brother Reported on US Payroll: So, Uh, How Much CIA Money Inadvertently Funds the Taliban?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:47:22 +0000

How many of these are now US property? (photo by ChuckHolton) Time for some serious Congressional hearings. The New York Times reports that Hamid Karzai’s brother, who has long been suspected of running a drug ring in southern Afghanistan — I mean, I asked Said Jawad, the ...

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Dems: CIA may have misled Congress five times since 2001

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:14:31 +0000

The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading an ongoing investigation into what they described as a practice of ...

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