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  • 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 (…)

  • Chalabi offers the White House an exit route from Iraqi quagmire
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
    Iraq’s deputy prime minister, Ahmad Chalabi, returns to Washington today in his latest incarnation - as a secular Shia leader who could offer Washington a way out of the morass into which he helped lead it two and a half years ago.
    The week-long visit, during which he will meet Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, and John Snow, the Treasury Secretary, and possibly Vice-President Dick Cheney, caps a remarkable comeback by a political operator who is (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Mr. Speaker, call the cops. Mr. Chalabi should not be allowed to run free
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Ahmad Chalabi, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq’s newly constituted government
    Statement by Congressman George Miller
    November 7, 2005
    Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, somebody ought to call the cops. Today I am not talking about collusion, corruption and cronyism and the leaking of sensitive classified information that has irreparably damaged the national security of the United States. No, I am not talking about Scooter Libby or Karl Rove, though their involvement in (…)

  • GCHQ - Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    GCHQ- Government Communications HeadQuarters Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency
    by Steve Jones
    GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters- is the United Kingdom’s (and the European Union’s) counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.
    Commonly referred to as, "her Majesty’s doughnut", GCHQ is Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency. Located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, the massive 176 acre centre, 1.1 million (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends" — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where "defendants gave financial support to umbrella organizations without (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)