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google.com - 28 days ago
The Associated Press: Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit
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(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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"
abcnews.go.com - 27 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"
— abcnews.go.com — Sabrina deSousa says U.S. "Betrayed" her and others found guilty in kidnapping.... (more) EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"

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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
rawstory.com - 27 days ago
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
— rawstory.com — 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 ... (more) Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped ...

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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 10/31/2009
Bush’s July 7, 2003 Discussion about Wilson
— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — Cheney revealed a meeting with Bush at which Wilson was discussed. And right after that, Rove talked... at the senior staff meeting about hitting back at Wilson. (more) Bush’s July 7, 2003 Discussion about Wilson

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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News:  Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit (brought by DEA agent)

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Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit (brought by DEA agent)
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... on the country's drug trade. Horn sued Brown and Huddle in 1994, seeking monetary damages for violating his civil rights. The CIA itself was a defendant in the lawsuit until early this year. Then-CIA Director George Tenet filed an affidavit asking that the case against Brown be dismissed because he was a covert agent whose identity was a state secret that must not be revealed in open court. Lamberth granted the CIA's request and threw out the case against Brown in 2004. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijAmf...

The CIA Doesn't Tell The Truth--Big Deal, Right?
Swampland — The Central Intelligence Agency recently agreed to pay $3 million to a former Drug Enforcement Agency official, Richard Horn, whose home was wiretapped in Rangoon, Burma, under apparently illegal conditions. That's one thing--a squabble in a distant country over turf between the CIA and the DEA that led one official to bug another official. But here is another: CIA lawyers subsequently misled a U.S. court about the covert status of one of the CIA officials responsible for the bugging, so that the case against him would be thrown out of court under the so-called "state secrets" ...

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