Rendition

CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


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

CIA Rendition Plane Spotted In Birmingham UK

The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World


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 ...

Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics


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...

Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


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 ...

Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

David Swanson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


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.

An Obama Rendition Scenario

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


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.

Why Rendition?

Stanley Kutler | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Stanley Kutler

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

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

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


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.

'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


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

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


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.

Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

Posted 09.11.2009 | World


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

Liz Cheney: Wrong on National Security, Wrong About Our President

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Lorelei Kelly

Liz Cheney charges that Obama's arms control negotiations in Moscow make us weaker. This is a clear indication of someone who clearly missed the freight train of history over the past two decades.

Robert Lady: I Was Just Following Orders

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


ROME — A former CIA agent on trial for the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric and terror suspect in Milan acknowledged in an interview publis...

CIA Employees Left Behind Over Terrorist Renditions

Frank Naif | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


Frank Naif

Some old intelligence scandals and foul-ups seem to keep turning back up to take a toll on government employees here in Washington.

CIA Rendition Trial In Italy: Judge Asked To Throw Out Case

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2009 | World


Lawyers representing CIA agents accused in Italy of kidnapping a terrorism suspect asked a judge to toss out the trial on Tuesday, after a higher cour...

The New Non-Human Rights Approach

Jack Healey | Posted 04.15.2009 | World


Jack Healey

The seeds of change have been sown and it is time for us as a country to guide our leaders towards an ethical standard for human rights, to step out of the darkness of these last few years.

UN Condemns Britain's Role In US Torture Cases

The Independent | By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor | Posted 04.10.2009 | World


Britain was condemned last night for its complicity in the American programme of rendition and alleged torture of hundreds of terror suspects, in a hi...

Obama's Defense Budget Cut: A Step in the Right Direction

Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.06.2009 | World


Sam Sedaei

The United States can strengthen its security much more effectively by reallocating billions of dollars of defense spending towards other initiatives.

Intelligence Investigations Should Target Top Deciders

Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics


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.

Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


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.

CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor

William Bradley | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

Feinstein's call for the appointment of a CIA director who can be linked to the practices Obama has made clear must end demonstrates how out of touch she is on intelligence.

Doing the Right Thing in Somalia

Frankie Martin | Posted 02.05.2009 | World


Frankie Martin

An international stabilization force may well be what is needed in Somalia, but the tough groundwork will have to be laid first. And for this, the Somali people must be on board.

Reckoning Renditions to America's Allies

Frank Naif | Posted 01.16.2009 | World


Frank Naif

While it's true that Guantanamo has been a blow to US prestige and moral leadership, the policy of rendition has unnecessarily complicated relations between the US and long-time allies.