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16 Jul 2011, 10:00 pm by Rosalind English
 This was a claim against the Intelligence Services and their sponsoring departments, alleging complicity in the claimants’ extraordinary rendition, false imprisonment, torture and other ill-treatment. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 7:00 am by Tom Parker
Amnesty has repeatedly sought a definitive statement from the Obama administration repudiating the practice of extraordinary rendition but administration officials have consistently ducked the issue. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 8:58 am by Jeff Gamso
This case implicates United States foreign-policy interests of the highest order.Generally, when someone from the Department of Justice says that sort of thing it's while prattling on about how national security requires that some innocent victim of extraordinary rendition be denied the opportunity to sue the government for kidnapping and torture. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 6:37 am by The Editors
To be sure, the extraordinary rendition of Maher Arar is a particularly vivid case of American national security gone berserk. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:33 am by Lovechilde
’s use of extraordinary rendition and the National Security Agency’s practice of wiretapping American citizens. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 5:00 am by Zeke Johnson
The book reads like a thriller but is so meticulous and well-researched that it could serve as a charge-sheet for prosecuting America’s torturers. 2) Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar By: Monia Mazigh Summary: Monia Mazigh tells the story of how her husband, Canadian citizen Maher Arar , was kidnapped at JFK airport in New York by US officials and sent to Syria to be tortured, as part of the US “extraordinary rendition” program. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 7:51 am by Lovechilde
The history of Watergate is now well known, but to this we may add the efforts of The New York Times and The Washington Post to uncover torture, extraordinary rendition, and — belatedly — warrantless electronic surveillance under the Bush Administration. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 4:10 pm by Mary Whisner
For example, a search for "voir dire" turns up articles from:Federal Sentencing Reporter (indexing only)The Reporter (Air Force Office of the Judge Advocate General) (full text and PDF)Journal of Criminal Law (PDF)Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (indexing only)New York Times (indexing only)News Media & the Law (indexing only)American Lawyer (indexing only)Florida Bar Journal (indexing only)Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law (indexing only)Review of Litigation (indexing… [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 11:01 pm by VMaryAbraham
 They put an extraordinary “Google Doodle” on their search page in honor of the June 9 birthday of the legendary guitarist, Les Paul. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 8:20 pm
The United States, together with other countries, needs more laboratories where scientists can detain samples of us and subject us to extraordinary rendition to infectious disease research centers. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 12:36 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Last month, the Supreme Court announced it would not hear the case we brought against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan on behalf of five victims of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:25 am by Tom Parker
In October 2007 Maher Arar testified via video before a joint hearing of House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Subcommittees on extraordinary rendition. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:23 am by Lovechilde
  President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," setting a tone for the war on terror which eschewed law and justice for extraordinary rendition, torture, wiretapping and, finally, assassination. [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:18 am by Lovechilde
As if to make the point, the Supreme Court recently offered a post-legal ruling for our moment: it declined to review a lower court ruling that blocked a case in which five men, who had experienced extraordinary rendition (a fancy globalized version of kidnapping) and been turned over to torturing regimes elsewhere by the CIA, tried to get their day in court. [read post]
19 May 2011, 9:50 pm by Fiona de Londras
In relation to extraordinary renditions the state claims that it is “completely opposed” to the practice, has appropriate diplomatic assurances, and that the Gardaí are empowered to act such a sustainable complaint be brought to them in relation to any alleged instance of extraordinary rendition in or through Ireland. [read post]
17 May 2011, 2:13 pm by David Kravets
The lawsuit was brought by five foreign nationals who claimed the CIA, working with other governments, operated a so-called “extraordinary rendition” program to gather intelligence. [read post]
17 May 2011, 7:20 am by Nabiha Syed
., also known as the “extraordinary rendition” case, garnered significant coverage. [read post]
16 May 2011, 10:24 am by Lyle Denniston
., et al. (10-778) — the latest appeal seeking to challenge the closing down of a lawsuit, because the government claims a “state secrets” privilege, seeking to hold someone liable for the Central Intelligence Agency’s once-secret program of “extraordinary rendition. [read post]