By Daniel Tencer
November 05, 2009 "
Raw Story" -- November 04, 2009 --- The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
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Added by Marklar on November 5, 2009 at 1:59pm —
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One of the 23 Americans convicted today by an Italian court says the United States "broke the law" in the CIA kidnapping of a Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003.
"And we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized and approved this," said former CIA officer Sabrina deSousa in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.
DeSousa says the U.S. "abandoned and betrayed" her and the others who were put on trial for the…
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Alternet
By Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse.
November 4, 2009.
The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
MILAN — An Italian judge Wednesday…
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Added by Marklar on November 4, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Washington D.C., August 14, 2007 - A collection of newly-declassified documents published today detail U.S. concern over Pakistan's relationship with the Taliban during the seven-year period leading up to 9-11. This new release comes just days after Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged that, "There is no doubt Afghan militants are supported from Pakistan soil." While…
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Car insurance by the tankful?
Not quite, but California moved a step closer last month to pay-as-you-drive policies that could allow motorists to buy insurance like they do gasoline – a little at a time.
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner released regulations permitting and authorizing mileage verification for pay-as-you-drive, without dictating what form such plans…
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By Noah Shachtman
CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a “National Manhunting Agency” to go after jihadists, drug dealers, pirates and other enemies of the state.
America’s military,…
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Added by Tara on November 3, 2009 at 4:40pm —
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The leaders of smaller and less industrialised nations are not madmen (whatever the media claims). They also are generally better informed than their citizens. In a war an attacker does not need equal forces compared to the enemy. The attacker needs a 5-fold local superiority, or better. No one begins wars without very definite objectives and a quick victory in sight. If a war…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 2, 2009 at 11:45pm —
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Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.
Researchers have been able to convert into crude video footage the brain activity stimulated by what a person is watching or recalling.
The breakthrough raises the prospect of significant benefits, such as…
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The brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has been receiving regular payments from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The New York Times has reported.
The newspaper, quoting current and former US officials, said on Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, a suspected participant in Afghanistan's booming illegal opium trade, has taken payments for much of the past eight years that the US has been in the country.
It said Karzai gets paid for a variety of services…
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Added by Tara on October 28, 2009 at 10:18am —
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By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for…
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Added by Tara on September 25, 2009 at 9:26am —
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
NEW YORK – Former CIA directors, including some of the architects of the Bush administration's interrogation policies, today sent a letter to President Obama encouraging him to reverse Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate whether crimes were committed in connection with the interrogation of detainees in U.S. custody overseas.
The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the Justice…
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Added by Tara on September 19, 2009 at 1:19am —
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A great way to help people wake up I think, even if it does throw some whitewash into the mix.
You see, our government does horrible evil things, even to it's own citizens. Even National Geographic says so, Did you hear about the prosecutions resulting from this stuff? I sure didn't. Is that consistent with the rule of law? Is it okay for government agents to be above the…
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Added by Marklar on September 17, 2009 at 8:34am —
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By: acquarius74 Monday September 14, 2009 10:40 am
This GoogleVideo is primarily an interview with former CIA black ops operative, Dios Gene "Chip" Tatum. This interview is also on YouTube in 8 segments which are very frustrating to ferret out.
The assassination arm of the CIA has come under fire recently with Panetta and Congress claiming shock and awe. Who are they kidding?
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Added by Tara on September 15, 2009 at 10:01am —
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Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved than hitherto…
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Added by Tara on September 3, 2009 at 9:10am —
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Los Angeles Times
By Josh Meyer
August 31, 2009
Reporting from Washington - Former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out at President Obama on Sunday, saying the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA operatives broke the law while interrogating terrorism suspects was politically…
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Added by Marklar on August 31, 2009 at 3:28pm —
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I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be read here -- but I want to write separately about the release today of the 2004 CIA's Inspector General Report (.pdf), both because it's extraordinary in its own right and because it underscores how unjust it would be to prosecute only low-level interrogators rather than the high-level officials who implemented the torture…
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Added by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 11:58am —
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The year is 1823. Nathaniel Burrell, sheep farmer, has stumbled upon a method for duplicating sheep. To cut a long story short, after years of essentially random cross-breeding he now can produce new sheep on demand at no cost. A quick twist of the tail of one of his miraculous cross-bred sheep and you’ve got a brand new one, just the like the old…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on August 23, 2009 at 10:14am —
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By Peter Moskos and Stanford "Neill" Franklin
Undercover Baltimore police officer Dante Arthur was doing what he does well, arresting drug dealers, when he approached a group in January. What he didn't know was that one of suspects knew from a previous arrest that Arthur was police. Arthur was shot twice in the face. In the gunfight that ensued, Arthur's partner returned fire and shot one of the suspects, three of whom were later arrested.
In many ways, Dante Arthur was…
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Added by Tara on August 19, 2009 at 10:51am —
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In its war in Afghanistan, the US seeks to target 50 Afghan drug traffickers who help finance the Taliban instead of halting the country's increasing drug production.
The Pentagon says it has planned to 'kill or capture' Afghan drug traffickers to disrupt the flow of drug money to the Taliban, the New York Times reported Sunday.
According to a Congressional study to be released this week, US military commanders announced that the policy is legal under the military's rules…
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Added by Tara on August 10, 2009 at 10:40am —
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By Naomi Wolf
Hearings are under way in the United States Senate to assess what to do with the 240 detainees still behind bars at Guantanamo Bay, and what will become of the military tribunals and detention without trial that the Bush administration and a compliant Congress put into place. The US Congress is also debating what will happen to the detention camp itself, which was established in 2002 to house men who were allegedly “the worst of the worst,” in a setting deliberately…
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Added by Tara on August 6, 2009 at 10:22am —
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