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Court rejects David Miliband bid to suppress CIA evidence

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Richard Norton-Taylor - Nov. 20 (News) - • Sixth damning ruling in Binyam Mohamed case • Foreign secretary?s claims of security risk dismissed The high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA?s inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain?s relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets. Evidence that the foreign secretary also wants to suppress is believed to reveal what British intelligence officers knew about Mohamed?s treatment. Mohamed, 31, an Ethiopian, says he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. In the sixth in a string of damning rulings, the high court accused Miliband of wanting to suppress information about CIA activities even though details had already been disclosed by the Obama administration. Dismissing Miliband?s claims, Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones insisted they were not trying to give away "American secrets". They said: "Of itself, the treatment ...

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CIA Secret Prison Found

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - Nov. 18 (News Report) - "It obviously took a lot of effort to keep [the prison] secret," said John Sifton, whose firm One World Research investigates human rights abuses. "There's a reason this stuff gets kept secret." "It's an embarrassment, and a crime."

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CIA says it gets its money's worth from Pakistani spy agency

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Greg Miller - Nov. 15 (News Report) - The CIA has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the Sept. 11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget, current and former U.S. officials say.

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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole, Brian Ross - Nov. 09 (News Report) - U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

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We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By David Usborne - Nov. 06 (News Report) - In an interview earlier this year with an Italian newspaper, Mr Lady was candid about the seizure of the cleric. "Of course it was an illegal operation," the newspaper quoted him. "But that's our job. We're at war against terrorism".

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22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Oct. 31 (Opinion) - Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn't remember much of anything. Here's a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn't recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI's notes:

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Karzai Brother on CIA Payroll

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Bill Plante - Oct. 28 (News Report) - The New York Times reports that the brother of Afghanistan's President Karzai, an alleged opium smuggler and war profiteer, has been taking money from the CIA.

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C.I.A. Abuse Cases Detailed in Report on Detainees

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Johnston, Jeff Zeleny - Aug. 25 (Breaking News) - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, government officials said on Monday, as officials released a C.I.A. inspector general’s report that detailed the abuses inside agency-run prisons overseas.

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CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 25 (News Report) - For months, former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that two documents prepared by the CIA, one from 2004 and the other from 2005, would refute critics of the Bush administration’s torture program. He told Fox’s Sean Hannity in April: “I haven’t

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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff - Aug. 22 (Special Report) - Top Bush CIA officials, including Tenet's successors as CIA director, Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden, strongly lobbied for the IG report to be kept secret from the public. They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully for legal accountability," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That's already been done."

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CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Jeremy Scahill - Aug. 20 (Interview) - The New York Times is reporting the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda. The CIA spent several million dollars on the program, which the Times claims did not successfully capture or kill any terrorist suspects. We speak to independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

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Eight Years After Orchestrating Massacre at Dasht-e-Leili, Afghan Warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum Returns to Afghanistan to Campaign for Karzai

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Aug. 18 (News Report) - One of Afghanistan’s most feared warlords has returned to Afghanistan just days before its presidential election. General Abdul Rashid Dostum is one of several warlords who have allied with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is seeking a new term. Karzai is hoping Dostum’s return will help attract ethnic Uzbek voters. Dostum’s return to prominence in Afghanistan comes despite his role overseeing a 2001 massacre at Dasht-e-Leili that left at least 2,000 Taliban POWs dead. He’s also had extensive ties with the US and was formerly on the CIA payroll.

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David Wise: "The CIA, Licensed to Kill"

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Aug. 11 (News Report) - when the CIA disclosed the existence of an aborted secret assassination program last month, congressional outrage centered around the fact that lawmakers weren’t properly informed. The open acceptance of assassination as a tool of US policy can in part be explained by the fact it’s been going on for decades.

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Panetta Pleads for No CIA Punishment

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Melvin A. Goodman - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable. For the past several weeks, the Post has carried a series of editorial and op-eds that were designed to prevent the release of the Justice Department memoranda that permitted the use of CIA torture and abuse and to prevent any rigorous examination of these practices that went beyond the permitted guidelines.

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Bush's key men face grilling on torture and death squads

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Jul. 19 (News Report) - America is bracing itself for a series of investigations that could see top officials from the administration of President George W Bush hauled in front of Congress, grilled by a special prosecutor and possibly facing criminal charges. Several investigations will now cast a spotlight on Bush-era torture policy and a secret CIA assassination programme, examining the role played by big names such as the former vice-president Dick Cheney and the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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House Looks Into Secrets Withheld From Congress - NYTimes.com

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane - Jul. 18 (News Report) - A House panel opened an investigation into whether the Bush administration broke the law by not informing Congress about classified programs.

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Rep. Reyes: CIA 'Deliberately Lied' To Intel Panel

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - Jul. 11 (Interview) - The CIA last week launched a review of how it briefs key members of Congress after House Democrats complained that the CIA has been misleading Congress for the past eight years. House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes says his committee was "deliberately lied to."

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House Intelligence Chairman Reyes Says CIA Lied to Panel About Classified Matter

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Kane - Jul. 09 (News Report) - The chairman of the House intelligence committee has accused the CIA of lying to the committee in a classified matter, the second time in less than two months a top House Democrat has charged the spy agency of intentionally misleading Congress.

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Was The CIA Hiding Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jul. 09 (News Report) - The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas of national security policy. What program, exactly, was being kept secret?

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Supreme Court Rejects Wilson/Plame Suit

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Jun. 22 (News Report) - The justices denied certiorari without comment this morning. A district court judge also rejected the suit, as did the D.C. Circuit in a 2-1 ruling. The lower courts said individuals like the Wilsons could not sue government employees for alleged privacy violations because the law Congress wrote dealing with such violations, the Privacy Act, directs liability to the government.

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Bill Would Boost Congressional Oversight of Covert Spy Programs

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Greg Mille - Jun. 20 (News Report) - Criticized for failing to challenge the intelligence operations of the Bush administration, key lawmakers have endorsed a bill that would force the president to make fuller disclosure of covert spy programs.

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The Disappointing Leon Panetta

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Melvin A. Goodman - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - CIA Director Leon Panetta is continuing the culture of cover-up that has plagued the Agency for the past three decades, ever since William Casey and Robert Gates collaborated in the 1980s to hide the crimes of Iran-Contra and to politicize sensitive intelligence.

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Iran: Who's Diddling Democracy?

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Steve Weissman - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - .......I know firsthand the danger the protesters face from government thugs on motorcycles, provocateurs and the secret police. But none of this should blind us to the likelihood that our own government is dangerously meddling in Iran's internal affairs and playing with the lives of those protesters.

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The Secret History

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jane Mayer - Jun. 14 (Special Report) - The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency’s headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former Vice-President Dick Cheney delivered an extraordinary attack on the Obama Administration’s emerging national-security policies. Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, accused the new Administration of making “the American people less safe” by banning brutal C.I.A. interrogations of terrorism suspects that had been sanctioned by the Bush Administration. Ruling out such interrogations “is unwise in the extreme,” Cheney charged. “It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness.”

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CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Gareth Porter - Jun. 12 (News Report) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations that CIA operatives have been paying Pakistanis to identify the targets, suggests that managers of the drone attacks programmes have been using the total secrecy surrounding the programme to hide abuses and high civilian casualties.

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