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  • CIA Accused of Using Airport in Mallorca
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spanish Court Gets Report Accusing CIA Used Airport on Mediterranean Island to Transfer Suspects
    By MARIA JESUS
    The National Court has received a prosecutor’s report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said Monday.
    The chief prosecutor for the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, submitted the 114-page report to the court in July, after a four-month investigation (…)

  • A DEADLY INTERROGATION : Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JANE MAYER
    At the end of a secluded cul-de-sac, in a fast-growing Virginia suburb favored by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a handsome replica of an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a white-railed front porch. The large back yard has a swimming pool, which, on a recent October afternoon, was neatly covered. In the driveway were two cars, a late-model truck, and an all-terrain vehicle. The sole discordant note was struck by a faded American flag on the porch; instead of (…)

  • Some kind of manly. Bush administration, dead to morality, says torture is the American way
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Molly Ivins
    AUSTIN, Texas — I can’t get over this feeling of unreality, that I am actually sitting here writing about our country having a gulag of secret prisons in which it tortures people. I have loved America all my life, even though I have often disagreed with the government. But this seems to me so preposterous, so monstrous. My mind is a little bent and my heart is a little broken this morning.
    Maybe I should try to get a grip — after all, it’s just this one administration that (…)

  • White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK At today’s White House press briefing, Scott McClellan was hit with a number of questions about the "ethics classes" the president’s staffers are now attending. But much of the briefing featured efforts by Helen Thomas, at the start, and then other reporters to get McClellan to explain the apparent contradiction between his claims that the U.S. does not torture anyone and Vice President Cheney’s request for an exemption in this matter.
    Here are the exchanges (…)

  • THE CIA’S ’BLACK SITES’ : Guantanamos in Europe?
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is the CIA using secret locations in Europe to interrogate prisoners in America’s war against terror? Reports about "black sites" have unsettled even the Bush administration’s closest European partners.
    Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen considers himself "America’s best friend" in Europe. He even broke a long-standing Danish tradition of seeking parliament-wide consensus in contentious foreign policy issues to back Washington’s decision to invade Iraq.
    But the right-wing (…)

  • United States of America / Yemen : Secret Detention in CIA "Black Sites"
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "They came to take our father at night, like thieves..." Fatima al-Assad, age 12, daughter of Muhammad al-Assad, who "disappeared" after his arrest in 2003
    "Brother, what is your name, what village are you from?" It was distinctive Yemeni Arabic that greeted Muhammad al-Assad as he stumbled, still hooded and shackled, from the plane at Sana’a. For the first time in nearly 18 months he knew what country he was in. He heard the question repeated twice more, as Salah Nasser Salim ‘Ali and (…)

  • Hoekstra/Roberts Letter Calls for Inquiry into WP story
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just found this on Raw Story....... I can think of all kinds of things to say about this but right now I’m still trying to digest the whole thing!!! Yet no one is screaming about Valeria Plame???????????
    Letter calls for inquiry into Washington Post story on CIA jails
    John Byrne
    Senior Republicans are pushing for an investigation into who revealed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas for "high-value" al Qaeda suspects to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can confirm.
    The Post (…)

  • The Consequences of Covering Up Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government officials.
    According to the Post, virtually nothing is known about these so-called "black sites," which would be illegal in the (…)

  • BOOK ON CIA’s SECRET JAILS: "Operation Hotel California" by Guido Olimpio
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The first book-length expose of CIA kidnappings and prisons — two of the greatest evils in the Bush government, and the world — by the Italian investigative journalist Guido Olimpio is here, and it’s new and as current as todays news stories about secret jails the CIA runs! The book is a must-read for anyone wanting to know about the CIA’s practice of "rendition": kidnapping people and transporting them to places like Egypt for torture. It’s an extremely controversial practice, a threat to (…)

  • CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11
    By Dana Priest
    The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
    The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, (…)