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15 May 2012, 11:32 pm by Fiona de Londras
At 9.15 am Strasbourg time today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear a complaint relating to the extraordinary renditions programme for the first time. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 8:38 am
On Monday, the AP reported that the CIA has increased its legal liability insurance to cover two-thirds of all CIA personnel, not just the ones who are subject to lawsuits accusing them of unlawful torture, harsh interrogation techniques, and extraordinary rendition (all of which violate U.S. and international law). [read post]
12 May 2007, 3:22 am
Mention forcibly sedating deportees, and you may envision extraordinary rendition of blindfolded and shackled terrorism suspects in private aircraft to secret destinations -- but in reality, the practice is much more common and much more widespread. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 10:09 am
From an Irish perspective the issue of transit states' liabilities relating to extraordinary rendition has been particularly germane. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 2:41 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Feinstein and Chambliss should ask Brennan whether he helped develop, carry out, advise on, or implement policies that that included torture, abuse, extraordinary rendition, and secret prisons. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 12:43 pm by The Namby Pamby
Unfortunately, I've been subjected to extraordinary rendition and taken to Gitmo. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 12:06 am by Glenn Reynolds
“Given President Obama’s plans to continue extraordinary rendition under a different name, you can see why he’d rather not delve into questions like these. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 11:36 am
In 2007, we sued Jeppesen for its role in the Bush administration's unlawful extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
16 Dec 2006, 5:59 am
A detailed article in today's Washington Post about the CIA's extraordinary renditions program in Europe quotes this justification from John Bellinger, State Department Legal Advisor: "I'd say that many European government officials and academics acknowledge now that there is a legal murkiness that applies to international terrorism. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 5:45 am by brian
We’re still reviewing the most recent mass of Wikileaks documents, but already they reveal improper government conduct: Bush administration officials pressured Germany not to prosecute CIA officers responsible for the kidnapping, extraordinary rendition and torture of German national Khaled El-Masri, an ACLU client. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 11:32 am
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Maher Arar in his extraordinary rendition and torture lawsuit against the Government. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 9:48 am
I wonder how many years it will take us to undo the humiliating Bush-Cheney legacy of disrespect for the Constitution and our fundamental principles of justice, and the damage to America's reputation in the world, brought by their regime of torture, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary renditions, Ghost Air, military commission trials and other wrong-headed reactions to the attacks of September 11, 2001. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 5:15 pm
Unfortunately, I don't have time to say anything substantive about this now, but AP reports on the conviction of twenty-three CIA agents in absentia in Italy in a trial over an extraordinary rendition. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 6:26 pm
Justice Department lawyers already asserted the state secrets privilege once this month to dismiss a suit over the government's controversial extraordinary rendition program, and today the DOJ filed an emergency motion in the Ninth Circuit U.S. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 9:39 pm
“The extraordinary rendition program is well known throughout the world. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 3:24 pm
Today, a federal Court of Appeals ruled against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year under the extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 8:05 am
/**/ I kicked off a recent Thanksgiving holiday season by having an argument with my friend and neighbor the rocket scientist about extraordinary rendition and the effect of immigrant workers on the economy. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 6:09 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Anders argued the Senate needs to determine whether Brennan implemented policies such as torture, secret prisons, and extraordinary rendition during his time at the CIA during the Bush administration before deciding whether to confirm him to such a vital, and secretive, national security post. [read post]