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21 Oct 2011, 5:15 am
The request for indictment was based upon Canada’s obligations under the Convention Against Torture, on Canadian Criminal Code § 269.1, which addresses criminal liability for torture, and on Canadian Supreme Court precedent condemning the acts of torture that took place at Bagram Air Base, secret “black sites,” through extraordinary renditions, and at Guantánamo against detainees in U.S. custody. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 8:37 am
Second, European states might be viewed as less complicit in the use of targeted killing than they were in, say, extraordinary rendition to Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 9:52 am
The first declaration to emerge from the Wall Street encampment highlights concerns ranging from home foreclosures, to government bailouts, faulty products, medical costs, animal rights, extraordinary rendition, and a number of other specific charges against big business. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 6:58 am
Initial inquiries revealed that at least five CIA rendition flights touched down in Lithuania between 2002 and 2006, that two black sites were built on Lithuanian soil, and identified the three senior State Security Department (SSD) officials who had cooperated closely with the US extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 5:39 pm
The files disclosed that the CIA and MI5 had worked closely with the Gaddafi regime, participating in the torture and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects – sadly, an unsurprising revelation. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 2:10 pm
Bush, for instance by disallowing victims of extraordinary rendition from suing Washington for torture suffered overseas. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 4:40 pm
Minnesota Faculty Works Mitu Gulati (Duke Law) Santa Clara Social Justice Steven Watt (ACLU Human Rights) presents “Extraordinary Rendition. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am
We can all recite the litany: Guantanamo, waterboarding and extraordinary rendition; the Patriot Act and wiretapping; mushroom clouds and yellow cake; war casualties and massive debt. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:58 am
We can all recite the litany: Guantanamo, waterboarding and extraordinary rendition; the Patriot Act and wiretapping; mushroom clouds and yellow cake; war casualties and massive debt. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 1:21 pm
But also in part because it seemed unimaginable that this extraordinary grant of executive power could possibly be abused. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 12:48 pm
When five other victims of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, also represented by the ACLU, sought judicial redress against a government contractor that had knowingly profited from arranging their torture flights, the court told them, in effect, to look elsewhere: "Our holding today is not intended to foreclose — or to prejudge — possible nonjudicial relief, should it be warranted for any of the plaintiffs. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 1:36 pm
” Unfortunately for the US government, a victim of the extraordinary rendition program, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, also went public last weekend with a graphic account of his own experiences, which demonstrate all too vividly just how empty the charade of diplomatic assurances actually was. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 11:09 am
" Human Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry proving the Gaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 7:05 am
The files provide an extraordinary window into the highly secretive and controversial practice of rendition, whereby the agency would send detainees to other countries for interrogation, including ones known for harsh treatment of detainees. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 2:29 pm
Ten years ago, we could not have imagined that over the following decade, our nation would engage policies that were so at odds with our fundamental values: torture and extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention without charge or trial, racial profiling, and warrantless wiretapping. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 1:16 pm
The Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that another rendition of the 2004 repatriation provision (part of the cornucopia of corporate tax benefits passed by the Bush Administration and responsible for lowering even further the tax-haven effective tax rates actually paid by US corporations) will cost about $80 billion over the ten years from 2011 to 2021. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am
Barack Obama is no George W. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 1:06 pm
Ashcroft, 585 F.3d 559 (2d Cir. 2009) (en banc ) (“extraordinary rendition” case ). [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 12:35 pm
Jeppesen, a 9th Circuit en-banc panel dismissed a potential challenge to the Government's Extraordinary Rendition Program, relying on the state secrets privilege. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 11:06 am
Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar by Monia Mazigh Monia Mazigh tells 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]
