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Extraordinary Rendition

Intelligence Investigations Should Target Top Deciders

Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Ron Wyden, Wyden Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Senate Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Gitmo, Rendition, House Intelligence Committee, Jane Mayer, Truth and Reconciliation, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Obama Gitmo Order, Extraordinary Rendition, 100 Days, Oregon, Politics News
Frank Naif

Making sure that ordinary national security drones aren't vilified or set up to take the fall for their bosses today will strengthen tomorrow's national security.

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Obama's Decisive Break with Bush's "War on Terror" Policies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, CIA Secret Prisons, War on Terror, Ali Al-Marri, Presidential Orders, Terrorism, Army Field Manual, Authorization of Military Force, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Obama's First 100 Days, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics News, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, UN Convention Against Torture, Cia, US Enemy Combatant, President Bush, Obama Presidential Orders, Torture, Closing Guantanamo, Extraordinary Rendition, Gitmo, Obama Closing Guantanamo, Obama Executive Order, Obama Torture, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Closure, Closure, Guantanamo Bay, Obama Detention, Obama Presidency, Obama Detention Policy, Obama Gitmo, 100 Days, World News
Andy Worthington

Obama's new Orders are a bold start, but more detail is required, dangerous loopholes must be shut off permanently, and other parts of the Bush administration's dark legacy need to be swiftly addressed.

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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Secret Prisons, Col. Stephen Henley, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Khalid El-Masri, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bagram, Mohammed El-Gharani, Laid Saidi, Maher Arar, Marwan Jabour, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, President Bush, Syria, Fbi, Extraordinary Rendition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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Senate Republicans: Did Panetta's Oversee Clinton-Era Extraordinary Rendition?

Washington Times | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Obama Panetta Pick, Obama Appointments, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Obama Panetta, Obama Appointees, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, Leon Panetta CIA, Extraordinary Rendition, Senate GOP, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama's choice for CIA director, Leon Panetta, served as White House chief of staff during the time the Clinton administration ...

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama

Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Cia, Director of National Intelligence, National Security, Federal Government, Private Security Contractors, Obama's Cabinet, CIA Torture, Obama Transition, Intelligence Community, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, John Brennan, Politics News
Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif

The Obama transition team's highly anticipated announcement of its new national security lineup has telling omissions: there's no Director of National Intelligence or CIA Director.

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Victim of Rendition and Torture Freed from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tipton Three, Rustam Akhmyarov, Indonesia, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, Egypt, Terrorism, Pakistan, CIA Torture, Mamdouh Habib, The Guantanamo Files, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first...

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Those Pesky Activist Judges

William Fisher | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Maher Arar, Extraordinary Rendition, Terrorism, Politics News
William Fisher

In a breathtakingly unusual move, a federal appeals court has decided to re-hear the case of the man who has arguably become the poster child for the Bush administration's rendition program.

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Bush Goes Looking for Relevance, A Legacy in Asia

Erika Fry | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thailand Insurgency, Burma, George W. Bush, Burma Junta, Myanmar, Myanmar Protests, Laura Bush Myanmar, Torture Southeast Asia, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Erika Fry

While in Bangkok, Bush plans to meet Burmese activists, which may be his best last chance to reshape a legacy here, now dominated by his outsourcing of US torture to Thailand.

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Torture Plagiarism

David Misch | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Extraordinary Rendition, Foreign Policy, Torture, China, Politics News
David Misch

It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?

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CIA Vet: Next President May Have To Scrap Agency

Washington Independent | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Kidnapping, Milt Bearden, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, Detainee Torture, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid busines...

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Vanity Fair: Senior Bush Advisers Pressured Underlings To Use Torture Tactics At Guantanamo

Vanity Fair | Phillippe Sands | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo, George Bush, Vanity Fair, Cia, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, Home News

The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Bu...

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CIA Confirms Rendition Flights to Brits

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rendition Victims, CIA Torture, CIA Interrogations, Warwire, Britain Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory...

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Congressional Leaders Briefed On CIA Waterboarding In 2002

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Waterboarding, 2002, Cia, Democrats, Extraordinary Rendition, Rendition, Republicans, Politics News

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent t...

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Flight Logs Show 5 European Countries OK'd Secret Rendition Flights

Sunday Times of London (U.K.) | Stephen Grey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Military Flights, Military, Cia, Extraordinary Rendition, Home News

THE secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British c...

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CIA Chief Defends Extraordinary Rendition

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has defended the methods it uses to interrogate terror suspects. Gen Hayd...

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Dozens Of "Ghost Prisoners" From CIA Jails Unaccounted For

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Detainees, Overseas Prisons, Cia, Politics News

On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guanta...

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British MPs To Probe Claims Of CIA Island Prison In Indian Ocean

The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Diego Garcia, Black Sites, Al-Qaida, Cia, United Kingdom, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the...

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