Rendition

American Muslim Alleges FBI Had A Hand In His Torture Overseas

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mustafa Elogbi, Yonas Fikre, Fbi, Michael Migliore, Gadeir Abbas, State Department, Rendition, United Arab Emirates, Council on American Islamic Relations, Gulet Mohamed, American Civil Liberties Union, Yahya Wehelie, Thomas Nelson, Jamal Tarhuni, Bad News, Yusuf Wehelie, Sharif Mobley, Amir Meshal, Naji Hamdan, Muslim, Torture, Crime News

Last June, while Yonas Fikre was visiting the United Arab Emirates, the Muslim American from Portland, Oregon was suddenly arrested and detained by E...

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Surrendering 2011: Rendition and Methane

Jim Garrison | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Politics, Climate Change, Constitutional Rights, National Defense Authorization Act, Rendition, Politics News
Jim Garrison

In the fine print of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, passed just before the holidays, it turns out that in addition to being now legally ...

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Did Congress Just Endorse Rendition For Americans?

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, National Defense Authorization Act, Benjamin Wittes, Terrorism, David Glazier, Ndaa, President Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Rendition, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Lost in the noise over the National Defense Authorization Act's detention provisions were some equally disturbing rules regarding the transfer of terr...

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Return Of The Renditioned

Foreign Policy | Katherine Hawkins | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: US Extraordinary Rendition, US Rendition, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

For years, human rights groups have accused the CIA of "outsourcing torture" to unsavory U.S. allies. They cite the allegations of dozens of terrorist...

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Will Rendition Always Remain a State Secret?

Emily Berman | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Transparency, Supreme Court, Obama Administration, Government Oversight, Doj, Eric Holder Attorney General, Obama Transparency, Rendition, State Secrets, Politics News
Emily Berman

On President Obama's first day in office, he stated unequivocally that his administration was "committed to operating with an unprecedented level of openness in government." It is time for the president to live up to his promise.

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Rumor of Time Dumping Assange Briefly Gains Internet Traction

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain, Visa, #Cablegate, Assange, Time Magazine, Wikileaks, Sweden, Swiss, Rendition, Politics News
Robert Weller

It started on Twitter, and then it got a life of its own. The true definition of an Internet meme. Time Magazine, like Amazon, Visa and the Swiss post...

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Is Assange Headed for Rendition?

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Sarkozy, #Cablegate, Assange, Obama, Wikileaks, Cyberhackers, Rendition, Torture, Media News
Robert Weller

If Julian Assange ends up in Sweden he could be extradited to the U.S., where he is public enemy #1.

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Ken Buck, Gun Shows & Arming Criminals

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, Blacksite, Randy ?€œRambo? Canister, Bob Barr, Waterboarded, Nra, Rendition, Dick Cheney, Triple Murder, Federal Prosecutor, Pocket Crips, Ken Buck, David Ohlinger, Harry Whittington, Denver Post, Golyanksy, Politics News
Cliff Schecter

There's good reason for Bob Barr to think there are serious ethical questions that need to be answered by Ken Buck. Nothing like a little NRA on NRA violence two weeks before an election to make the day interesting.

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Court Sides With CIA On 'Extraordinary Rendition,' Grants President Broad 'State Secrets' Privilege

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeppesen Dataplan, CIA Rendition, Obama Extraordinary Rendition, Rendition Victims, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

SAN FRANCISCO — A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program t...

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Bagram Renditions Risk Serious Consequences

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bagram, Detention, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, Justice, Counterinsurgency, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, World News
Jonathan Horowitz

A new U.S. plan for capturing individuals outside Afghanistan and transferring them to Bagram as a way to avoid the requirements of the U.S. constitution raises legitimate and sincere legal concerns.

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The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, The Parallax View, Tony Blair, The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, Cia, Bauhaus, Ronald Reagan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jim Belushi, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitler, Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren, Warhol, Alexandre Desplat, Morgane Polanski, Brutalist Architecture, James Bond, Cool Britannia, Ewan McGregor, Barack Obama, The Queen, Tim Hutton, Bernard Herrmann, Olivia Williams, Eli Wallach, Sex and the City, 9/11, Iraq War, Condi Rice, Alan J. Pakula, Britain, Pakistan, Rendition, Halliburton, Robert Harris, Warren Beatty, Robert Pugh, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Yet it seems unlikely, at least in America, to break out beyond the art house hit status.

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CIA Rendition Plane Spotted In Birmingham UK

The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Glasgow, EU Parliament, Rendition, Germany, Gulfstream, Torture, Cia, Sas, British Special Forces, Boeing 757 Comco, Shannon Airport, Dauphin 2, Eu, Helicopters, Glasgow Prestwick, Dauphin 2 Helicopters, Gulfstream Jet, Ireland, Stuttgart Airport, Romania, Bucharest, L-3 Integrated Systems, n478gs, Hereford, World News

An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...

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What Does Dick Cheney Want More: America's Safety or Obama's Failure?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberty, Security, Criticism, Habeas Corpus, Rendition, Torture, Cheney, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Cheney has no hesitation in criticizing President Obama and suggesting that his policies are making us less safe. Deep down one senses that he would relish in an "I told you so" moment.

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antivilai, Al-Qaada, Lithuania, Cia, Interrogation, Dalia Grybauskaite, Horses, Taliban, Llc, Rendition, Riding Academy, Vilnius, Nato, Human Rights, Prison, Elite, Elite Llc, Black Site, Cia Torture Prison, Horse Academy, Horseback Riding, Stable, Interrogation Tactics, Torture, World News

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, State Secrets Privilege, National Security, State Secrets, Obama State Secrets, Department of Justice, Holder Bush State Secrets, Obama National Security, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Rendition, Bush State Secrets, Politics News

The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state se...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, US Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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Bush White House Sought to Soften Treaty On 'Enforced Disappearances'

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Human Rights, Bush, Foreign Prisons, Cia, CIA Secret Prisons, George Bush, Bush White House, Secret Prisons, Torture, Rendition, Politics News

From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia Governor, Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, u.s. Attorneys Scandal, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Dick Cheney Torture, Regent University, Lisa Ling, Justice Department, Wall Street Journal, u.s. Attorneys, Jim Jones, Dick Cheney, Rendition, Lakhdar Boumediene, Euna Lee, New York Times, Washington Post, National Security Adviser, U.S. News and World Report, Kyle Sampson, Robert Mcdonnell, Pat Robertson, North Korea, Torture, Justice-Department-Politicization, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.

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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

David Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Presidential Signing Statements, Barack Obama, Obama Torture, George W. Bush, Rendition, Politics News
David Swanson

Here's the funny part. This dark fantasy of a third Bush term is also an accurate portrait of Obama's first term to date.

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An Obama Rendition Scenario

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detention, Terrorism, Satire, Barack Obama, Rendition, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Secret Prisons, Bush Rendition, U.S Rendition Policy, Obama Anti-Torture, Obama Rendition, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Obama recently ratified continuation of the U.S. rendition policy. Amazingly, I just received a recording from the near-future of an interrogation conducted under the new kinder, gentler rules. Let's listen in.

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Why Rendition?

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eric Holder, Cheney, Rendition, President Obama, Cia, Obama CIA, Politics News
Stanley Kutler

The president should be challenged. His campaign words on torture are empty, rendered meaningless with his "new" policy on rendition.

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"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rendition, Waterboarding, Detainees, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Interrogations, Torture, George W. Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, CIA Interrogators, Attorney General Eric Holder, Glen Beck, Robert F. Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Waterboard, Savak, CIA Torture Policies, Sean Hannity, CIA Prisoners, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, 9-11, CIA Inspector General, John Durham, Dina, Orden, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

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Obama Approves New Team to Question Key Terror Suspects

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush, CIA Interrogations, Torture, Obama Justice Department, Guantanamo Detainees, Interrogation, Obama, Justice Department, Rendition, High-Value Detainee, Interrogation Group, HIG, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...

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Bagram Isn't The New Guantanamo, It's The Old Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Aclu, Military Tribunals, Department of Defense, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Freedom of Information Act, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bagram Detainees US Courts, Bagram, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Habeas Corpus, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News
Andy Worthington

From what I have been able to gather about the workings of Bagram, I have no reason to conclude that the prison is now being run according to the Geneva Conventions.

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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Bush, Interrogation, Torture, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama sharply criticized the Bush Administration's extr...

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