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  • EU concealed deal with US to allow ’rendition’ flights
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 11/12/2005)
    The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA.
    The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on (…)

  • Domestic Spying: NSA has Backdoor Key to Microsoft Windows
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sept 3, 1999
    A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly built into all versions of the Windows operating system.
    Computer-security specialists have been aware for two years that unusual features are contained inside a standard Windows driver used for security and encryption functions. The driver, called ADVAPI.DLL, enables and controls a range of security functions including the (…)

  • CIA War Crimes
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CIA has documented every use of its exclusive ’enhanced interrogation techniques’
    Nothing in the [Geneva] Conventions [on the treatment of prisoners of war] precludes directed interrogations. They do, however, prohibit torture and humiliation of detainees, whether or not they are deemed P.O.W.’s. These are standards that are never obsolete-they cut to the heart of how moral people must treat other human beings. John McCain , in Torture: A Human Rights Perspective, edited by Kenneth Roth (…)

  • Suspected Terrorists Held 4 Years, Not Questioned Even Once
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.
    The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent (…)

  • NEW OLD ADMINISTRATION LIES
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Formal Administration Lies
    By Peter Fredson
    December 15, 2005
    The administration lies have been coming fast and thick recently. The President just made a series of speeches, Condi made a series of speeches, and Cheney made several speeches. Ordinarily it would be hard to keep up with so many speeches, except for the fact that essentially they are all the same speech. In several the wording is identical, from cut-and-paste jobs of phrases that sounded good and suckered some Bush (…)

  • CIA Flights They Gripe About? Here’s Europe’s AGREEMENT for them (follow link)
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THIS IS PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME YOU WILL SEE THIS PROOF — BUT NOT THE LAST.......The meeting gave the US permission for "renditions" — kidnapping Muslims off the streets of Europe — and CIA flights to take them to prison without trial (and, it turns out, to torture). I’ll quote from an EU-US meeting and show you the web link, you judge. Here’s the link: Furthermore, the US has secret CTICs — joint-venture spy nests — in over 25 countries! Condoleeza Rice is right, Gerhard Schroeder is (…)

  • Weaselly Rice tortures facts
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does secretary of state think anyone is buying her spiel, asks Maureen Dowd
    by Maureen Dowd
    Our secretary of state’s tortuous defence of supposedly non-existent CIA torture chambers in Eastern Europe was an acid flashback to Clintonian parsing.
    Just as Bill Clinton pranced around questions about marijuana use at Oxford during the ’92 campaign by saying he had never broken the laws of his country, so Condoleezza Rice pranced around questions about outsourcing torture by suggesting that (…)

  • ’Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Naomi Klein
    It was the "Mission Accomplished" of George W. Bush’s second term, and an announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location. But what was the right backdrop for the infamous "We do not torture" declaration? With characteristic audacity, the Bush team settled on downtown Panama City.
    It was certainly bold. An hour and a half’s drive from where Bush stood, the US military ran the notorious School of the Americas from 1946 to 1984, a sinister educational (…)

  • RHETORICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT CONDI
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rhetorical Questions about Lies and Torture
    By Peter Fredson
    December 11, 2005
    Today a news headline stated:
    “NATO CHIEF: RICE ’CLEARED THE AIR’ ON DETAINEE CHARGES”
    The main story was a simple assertion: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has briefed NATO and European Union colleagues on the Bush administration response to allegations the CIA has abused terrorism suspects and had secret detention sites in Europe. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says Ms. Rice’s (…)

  • German Papers: Does Anyone Believe Condoleezza Rice?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Der Spiegel
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her visit has left all sorts of bad tastes in the mouths of Germans. Nobody seems terribly convinced by her claim that America doesn’t torture. And what is "torture" anyway?
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her lightening visit on Tuesday is still splashed across the headlines on Wednesday. Nobody, of course, expected the issues raised by Rice’s visit to disappear as soon as (…)