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31 Jul, 2008 2:30 pm
[JURIST] US President George W. Bush issued an executive order [text and materials] on Thursday which gives the country's Director of National
Intelligence [official website] the authority to coordinate information sharing between different US
and foreign intelligence services, a duty previously held by the Central Intelligence Agency [official website]. The Director will also be authorized to
24 Jul, 2006 9:39 am
[JURIST] Jordan [JURIST news archive] is a "central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers" allegedly operated by the
US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] and foreign intelligence agencies, according to an Amnesty International [advocacy
website] report [text; press release] written by Malcolm Smart, the director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa unit. The
8 Apr, 2008 10:58 am
VIA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH The US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) transferred at least 14 terrorist suspects to Jordanian custody for interrogation and torture since the September 11, 2001
attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 36-page report, Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan, documents how Jordans General Intelligence Department (GID) served as a proxy jailer and interrogator for the CIA from 2001 until at least 2004. While a handful of..
8 Jun, 2007 2:17 am
[JURIST] The trial of 26 US Central Intelligence
Agency agents [JURIST news archive] and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003
abduction and rendition [JURIST news archive] of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news archive; Wikipedia profile] opened in Milan Friday in the absence of all American
defendants. This is the first trial based on the CIA rendition program
26 Feb 6:51 am
[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Defence John Hutton [official profile] gave a statement [MOD press release] to the UK House of Commons [official website] Thursday providing details
of participation with US forces in the rendition of terrorism suspects from Iraq to US detention in
Afghanistan, possibly by way of the US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition [JURIST news
15 Sep, 2006 8:18 am
[JURIST] One week after US President Bush confirmed [JURIST report; speech transcript] the existence of secret prisons for high-value terror
suspects [CRS report text, via Secrecy News] run by the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] abroad, top-level members of the Council of the European Union [official
website] publicly criticized [press release] the program Friday. According to
17 Apr, 2007 1:14 pm
[JURIST] A delegation of European Parliament [official website] members told two subcommittees of the US House of Representatives [official
website] Tuesday that the use of extraordinary renditions [JURIST news archive] by the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] is illegal. At the hearing [notice] conducted by the
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International
11 Dec, 2008 9:55 am
[JURIST] Spanish National Court Judge Ismael Moreno Wednesday asked the Spanish Foreign Ministry for a certified copy of a 2002 internal government memorandum [PDF text, in Spanish]
detailing a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] request to use Spanish resources [JURIST report] in aiding CIA extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] flights. Moreno
said that after
17 Jul, 2006 2:39 am
[JURIST] The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri [JURIST news archive], a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the
US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive], the German Justice Ministry
[official website, in German] said Sunday.
1 Dec, 2008 5:20 am
[JURIST] The Spanish Foreign Ministry [official website] expressly allowed the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] to use Spanish resources in transporting terror suspects
to Guantanamo Bay, according to a 2002 internal Foreign Ministry memorandum [PDF text, in Spanish] released by Madrid's El Pais [report, in Spanish] newspaper on Sunday. According to
the document, an
19 Jul, 2008 9:22 am
... of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency." It pertained to "a member or part of or supporting al Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated
organizations (who might have) ... visit his blog site and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM-1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests. All programs are archived for easy
listening. Read ...
2 Jan 4:57 am
... State and Homeland Security, as well as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, also may exempt any individual from US-VISIT. 8 CFR 235.1(f ... border, are not required to obtain Form I-94
and, therefore, are not subject to US- VISIT. See 8 CFR 235.1(h)(1)(iii), (v ... tribal governments, who, in accordance with their
responsibilities, are lawfully engaged in collecting law enforcement intelligence information and/or investigating, prosecuting, enforcing or
implementing civil and/or criminal laws ...
13 Jul, 2008 11:14 pm
... levels in areas we would never expect in the hopes that it will lead to the locations of weakness in our commercial and government intelligence defense systems. The FBI recently investigated and obtained its first conviction under the Economic Espionage Act of ... . If an illegal alien
can obtain top secret employment and penetrate to the most sensitive areas of our intelligence agencies should we be worried? Ironically
one of the most recent arrests of an accused traitor involved the Middle East ...
3 Jan, 2008 8:11 am
... on a legal framework for detentions and interrogations" and later introduced a bill to clarify that no individual in US custody, regardless
of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; and ... -- that the techniques "approved by the Attorney General have been
subject to an extensive review by lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Justice and the National Security Council and found to be within the law." And she ...
20 Nov, 2004 3:47 pm
[JURIST] Congressional lawmakers announced Saturday that House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on legislation that would overhaul the US intelligence structure pursuant to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The agreement is reported to
create a new post that would jointly oversee all civilian spy agencies in the US, including the Central Intelligence Agency; a new National
25 Apr, 2006 4:27 pm
[JURIST] The Intelligence Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2007 [HR 5020 summary], up for a vote in the US House this week, contains several provisions which would expand the authority [POGO letter] of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency [official websites] to crack down on unauthorized leaks of classified information. Sections 423 and 432 of the bill would authorize
9 Jan 7:58 am
[JURIST] US President-elect Barack Obama [transition website] on Friday announced his nominations for the top posts [press release] in the
US intelligence community, designating Admiral Dennis Blair to be Director of National
Intelligence and Leon Panetta [profile] to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website]. Obama also announced that John Brennan will serve as
23 May, 2006 6:50 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate Intelligence Committee [official website] voted 12-3 Tuesday to approve the
nomination [JURIST report] of US Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden [official profile] to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website]. Despite the recent
controversy over Hayden's role in the collection and turnover of US citizens' phone records [JURIST report] to the
28 Oct 6:15 pm
... Australian law professor told reporters. "Otherwise you have the really problematic bottom line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no
accountability in terms ... - as they already do - and I understand if that is what was meant. But the other possible meaning here is that the US has some legal obligation either to engage with that process or provide it with information or cooperate with it in some ...
28 Oct 2:10 pm
by Kenneth Anderson Reuter's reports on a speech given by Philip Alston at the UN, criticizing the US for its drone attacks or, at a minimum,
for not being forthcoming on its drone attacks. Philip - a friend and well known to many OJ ... the Australian law professor told reporters. "Otherwise you have the really problematic
bottom line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency
is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of ...
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