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  • 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, (…)

  • A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN W. DEAN
    In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed. I warned, for instance, that there might not be any indictments, and Fitzgerald might close up shop as the last days of the grand jury’s term elapsed. And I was certain he would only indict if he had a patently clear case.
    Now, however, one indictment has been (…)

  • Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Consequences of Covering Up : Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    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 (…)

  • Tracing the CIA’s Planes: to Senator’s Office, Poland, Romania
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News media reported Thursday that the group Human Rights Watch "claims records and other evidence point to POLAND and ROMANIA as countries that allowed their territory to be used by the CIA to hold top suspected al-Qaeda captives." We report that HRW knows that from tracing the movements of CIA planes and we provide a list of the planes.
    http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/131066/index.php
    The HRW report clarifies earlier reports in the mainstream media that declined to reveal (…)

  • What the ’Shield’ Covered Up
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E. J. Dionne Jr.
    Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked?
    In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
    Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was reelected, and October 2005, after the president was reelected. Those dates make (…)

  • David Edger, 9/11, and Chilean Terrorists of the Pinochet Regime
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
    For a quick review, I have argued that former U.S. Senator David Boren, his protege George Tenet, and another CIA agent named David Edger were the inner circle of the CIA in 2001. In 1994, Boren became the president of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and brought Edger to OU in the summer of 2001 with a "visiting professor" appointment. Here is a photo of Edger:
    I have stated the suspicion that this trio let the 9/11 (…)

  • Libby: The War Party’s Kamikaze
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why did Scooter lie - and so badly?
    by Justin Raimondo
    "It’s not over."
    Out of Fitzgerald’s hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let’s look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation.
    Fitzgerald’s debut at the press conference put on display a character who might have been imagined by a novelist. He seems to embody the principle of justice: the clear concise nature of (…)

  • Indicting America
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Ritter
    The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald provides the most cogent and visible evidence to date of the criminal mindset that exists inside the Bush administration regarding the decision to invade Iraq.
    The indictment is linked to Libby’s involvement in illegally revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in violation of U.S. law, and the resultant conspiracy to deny and cover up the fact that this crime (…)

  • ’Official A’ Stands Out in Indictment
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON - In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A."
    The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who left his job as vice presidential aide shortly after his indictment on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
    Several other unnamed officials mentioned in (…)

  • Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gordon Prather
    The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom:
    As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policy-makers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. The community’s best assessments were set out in an October 2002 (…)