Italian Court Levies Judgment on U.S. Rendition Program
blogs.abcnews.com 23 days ago — 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.

The Associated Press: Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit
google.com 24 days ago — (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 ...

National intelligence director to evaluate CIA missions -
latimes.com 11 days ago — Reporting from Washington - Sensitive CIA operations overseas will face new scrutiny from the nation's intelligence director under a plan approved by the White House and outlined in a memo to the espionage workforce last week. The move marks an ...

New Documents Show the CIA, Not the FBI, Got Zubadayh to 'Cough Up' Jose Padilla -- By: Marc Thiessen
corner.nationalreview.com 27 days ago — On Friday, the Justice Department released reams of newly declassified documents on the CIA interrogation program. Among the documents is a revised, October 2009 version of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s involvement ...

Italy Convicts Twenty-three CIA Agents in Absentia
volokh.com 23 days ago — Unfortunately, I don’t have time to say anything substantive about this now, but AP reports on the conviction of twenty-three CIA agents in absentia in Italy in a trial over an extraordinary rendition. The AP story is unusually detailed for a wire ...

Intelligence Veterans Back Torture Probe
commondreams.org 10/1/2009 — by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Accountability for Torture We write you, Mr. President, as former intelligence ...

Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
librarygrape.com 10/26/2009 — 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 ...

Igniting The Debate Over Obama's Secret War
politics.theatlantic.com 10/21/2009 — Barack Obama's use of Predator drones in Pakistan represents, according to  Hina Shamsi, a human-rights lawyer at the New York University School of Law,  "targeted international killings by the state."  In the New Yorker, Jane Mayer ...

NYT: Afghan President
foxnews.com 10/28/2009 — 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 ...

Five Important Revelations From The CIA Inspector General Report
swampland.blogs.time.com 8/25/2009 — After years of delay, the CIA declassified a raft of documents Monday, with lots of detail about the Bush Administration's harsh treatment of detainees following the September 11 attacks. The biggest document, with the most new detail, is a 2004 ...

Citing change in Honduras policy, DeMint ends holds on nominees (McClatchy Newspapers) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 22 days ago
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras late Thursday dropped his opposition to two State Department nominees, saying that the administration has reversed course.

U.S. mulls DNA tests for some foreign refugee applicants (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 23 days ago
AP - The Obama administration is considering using DNA tests for some foreign refugee applicants following a Bush-era pilot program that found massive fraud among those claiming family links to join relatives already in the United States.

Canada to host G8 foreign ministers in Quebec city (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 22 days ago
Reuters - Canada will host a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in March 2010 in the French-speaking province of Quebec, laying the groundwork for a leaders' summit in June of next year.

Iraq again seeks international bombing probe (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 21 days ago
AP - Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.

Afghanistan hits back at U.N. and foreign criticism (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 21 days ago
Reuters - Afghanistan accused the United Nations on Saturday of intervening in the formation of President Hamid Karzai's next cabinet, less than a week into his new term.