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• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 768
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
  3 days ago

• Extraordinary Rendition, The Story of Abu Omar, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  This post is by guest writer Robert Nijssen who also has his own blog . Abu Omar is an imam from Egyptian origin, who was kidnapped by the CIA from the streets of Milan. For more information on his kidnapping please refer to my original post here . Last week the Italian trial against the involved CIA operatives was ...
  4 days ago

• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. ...
  5 days ago

• Extraordinary rendition of a U.S. citizen - it could happen to you...!

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 134
  note: mr. meshal was never charged ... "U.S. officials repeatedly threatened Mr. Meshal with torture, forced disappearance, and execution in order to coerce him to confess to wrongdoing in which he had not engaged and to associations that he did not have," according to the lawsuit [the suit, brought on behalf of ...
  5 days ago

• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  A court’s overt disregard for the central role of judges in policing executive branch excesses has frightening implications for safeguarding civil liberties.
  5 days ago

• American Sues F.B.I., Saying He Was Detained in Africa

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Amir Meshal said he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United States.
  6 days ago

• Craig Murray and John Pilger on the “War on Terror”

  
  chtodelat news — Authority: 129
  The Fabulous Craig Murray , “ Uzbek Terror and the UK/USA” (interview on The Real News ; watch Craig’s recent talk on the same grim topic here and here ) John Pilger , “Breaking the Australian Silence” (Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech): Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said ...
  1 week ago

• Italy’s calling ‘extraordinary rendition’ illegal puts onus on U.S.

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 435
  Los Angeles editorial “Extrajudicial detentions” and “extraordinary renditions” were nicely scrubbed terms for the Bush administration’s policy of capturing suspects in one country and spiriting them away to another, where they were harshly interrogated and even tortured. Now an Italian court has called ...
  1 week ago

• CIA agents guilty of Kidnapping

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 136
  This is a story that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it should have:An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.BBC Article for a good medium length summary.The CIA personnel were involved ...
  1 week ago

• Mixed week on renditions accountability

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  This week saw two contrasting results emerging from courts in the United States and Italy regarding extraordinary rendition : ► In the United States, the case of Maher Arar (right) was once more rejected by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (prior IntLawGrrls posts here ) ► In Italy, however, ...
  1 week ago

• Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  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.Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and ...
  1 week ago

• Letter: C.I.A. Convictions in Italy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  To the Editor:.
  1 week ago

• More On The Rendition Of Abu Omar

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 435
  By A. Serwer The circumstances of yesterday’s conviction in absentia of 23 CIA agents by an Italian court for the extraordinary rendition of Abu Omar, who was disappeared from Milan, were strange to me. The U.S. usually only uses rendition when the host country is either unfriendly or can’t be seen cooperating ...
  1 week ago

• Dick Cheney, Meet Sabrina deSouza

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 435
  By Spencer Ackerman Sabrina deSouza is one of the 23 U.S. officials convicted in Italy for the illegal CIA rendition of an Egyptian terrorist suspect named Abu Omar. She concedes the United States “broke the law” in ordering and carrying out the rendition, and says, “we are paying for the mistakes right now, ...
  1 week ago

• UK lawmakers call for new rendition flight ban

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 435
  By SYLVIA HUI (AP) LONDON — A group of British lawmakers proposed new laws Thursday to ban the use of airports, harbors or highways in the secret rendition of suspected terrorists, while a human rights group urged the government to stop detaining terror suspects without charge. Parliament’s all-party group on ...
  1 week ago

• Italian Judge Rules “Extraordinary Rendition” Illegal, Sentences CIA Agents

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 528
  In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents received three-year sentences) for their involvement in the ...
  1 week ago

• Dick Cheney, Meet Sabrina deSouza

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Sabrina deSouza is one of the 23 U.S. officials convicted in Italy for the illegal CIA rendition of an Egyptian terrorist suspect named Abu Omar. She concedes the United States “broke the law” in ordering and carrying out the rendition, and says , “we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized ...
  1 week ago

• geopolitiks: rendition, selections, false flags & wargames

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 480
  video: italian court convicts 23 americans in cia rendition case* US & india: bonding over war games* privatized foreign policy: the india lobby* india buys 200 tons gold from imf* karzai declared winner of afghan election* afghan president appears to win by default* americans dressed as afghans caught with ...
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• Reports state CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights landed in UK By Robert Stevens

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 149
  A US registered plane named in a 2007 European Parliament report into alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights was observed to land at Birmingham Airport in England on October 2 of this year.
  1 week ago

• Italy Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping and Rendition

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 122
  Well, at least theres justice for extraordinary rendition victims in one jurisdiction in this world. In the case of Abu Omar who was snatched from the streets of Milan in 2003 and rendered to Egypt to be tortured (known as the Imam rapito affair in Italy), Human Rights Watch weighs in : (Milan) - An Italian ...
  1 week ago

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