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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. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 9:28 am
Reducing corruption (as opposed to purchasing guns and equipment) must become a more central focus of anti-drug law enforcement on both sides of the border, or else we risk witnessing an outcome that's openly feared in the Voices of Mexico article: "the imminent collapse of the Mexican state. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 3:04 pm
The Centre appears to be of the view, according to some media reports, that Item 8 in the Union List pertaining to Central Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation empowers it to set up such an Agency with immediate effect. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 11:01 am
Robert Gates, the current Secretary of Defense, who's slated to remain so in the next administration (as posted above), but then Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, wrote a letter to his superior in which he cited the doctrine to justify U.S. support for the contras who were fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government.... 1977, the chief magistrate of Pretoria accepted findings that South African security forces were not to blame for the death of… [read post]
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. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 11:00 am
In 2007, the commission merged with 2 other rights groups to become the Equality and Human Rights Commission.... 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 17, which authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct "'paramilitary'" operations "'against Cuban presence and Cuban-Sandinista support infrastructure in Nicaragua and elsewhere in Central America.'" NSDD-17, a facsimile of which… [read post]
21 Nov 2008, 2:23 pm
[JURIST] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] may have withheld information from the US Department of Justice and other agencies regarding a plane carrying a US missionary family shot down over Peru in 2001, according to excerpts [text, PDF] released Thursday from a classified report by the CIA Inspector General dated August 25. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 5:21 pm
While conceding that the government had a right to appeal that part of his ruling, Leon commented that he, too, had “a right to appeal” to leaders of the Justice Department, Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies, and his  plea was that they look at the evidence  regarding the five he was ordering released. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 7:42 pm
Sullivan holds a hearing in a case involving an Ethiopian-born former British resident, Binyam Mohamed al Habashi, captured in Pakistan, who claims that the Central Intelligence Agency sent him to Morocco where he was tortured. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 3:59 pm
Civil-liberties groups were among those outraged that the White House sanctioned the use of harsh intelligence techniques -- which some consider torture -- by the Central Intelligence Agency, and expanded domestic spy powers. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 11:48 am
The protection of these potential targets should be intelligence driven. ...The Special Operations group would be the "eyes and ears" of the Intelligence & Counter- Terrorism division by tasking and deploying "collectors" of information deemed to be important to the overall intelligence and counter-terrorism effort. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 4:00 pm
We are all enormously grateful to Christine Korsgaard for her characteristically lucid and insightful lecture on the basis of animal entitlements. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 2:28 am
  What is most important in a president is intelligence, knowledge, intellectual curiosity, judgment, patience, the personality of a leader, and so forth. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 10:40 pm
News release: "In a striking rebuke to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District... [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 8:25 pm
Here's how the rendition game has worked: The country that receives the prisoners gives phony assurances to Washington that they will be well-treated, which allows the Central Intelligence Agency to claim, as they did in this case, that it “does not transport individuals anywhere for the purpose of torture. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 11:15 pm
  At the same time, however, he gave an implied endorsement of a major new role for the Central Intelligence Agency — a role that, according to the Justice Department, is the major factor in slowing down the official responses. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 10:20 am
.* * * *The Central Intelligence Agency has for several years fired missiles atmilitants inside Pakistan from remotely piloted Predator aircraft. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 9:00 am
The State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency are both moving to become more open and collaborative using enterprise 2.0 tools to gather information and communicate. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 10:59 pm
” Besides criticizing government agencies for the delays, the new filing challenged the need for the Central Intelligence Agency to review all of the classified mateial the government may use in seeking to justify individual detentions. [read post]