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16 Jan 2008, 11:59 pm
[JURIST] John Rizzo, the acting general counsel of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website], said Wednesday that the former head of the clandestine branch of the CIA Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects [JURIST news archive] against the direction of superiors, according to Rep. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 11:54 pm
John Conyers (D-MI) [official website] sent a letter [text] Tuesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile] urging him to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 1:24 am
[JURIST] Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the clandestine branch of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects [JURIST news archive], will not appear at a closed congressional hearing later this week, his lawyer said Monday, indicating he had been excused because he would refuse to answer [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 2:09 am
Kirchner has called the case a "garbage operation" by Americans, while Venezuela's official news agency claimed this week that it was a plot by the Central Intelligence Agency. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 12:57 am
Moreover, in order for metasurveillance to be effective, it is not necessary that the recordings of what police and intelligence agencies do be widely available to the public as long as they are made available to ombudsmen or other trusted agents who have the power to hold agents accountable and take other corrective actions. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 7:57 am
Philip Agee, 72, a former undercover officer with the Central Intelligence Agency whose disillusionment with U.S. policy in support of dictatorship prompted him to name names and reveal CIA secrets, died Jan. 7 in Havana. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 3:33 pm
., refused on Wednesday to open a judicial probe of reports that the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed videotapes of aggressive interrogation techniques of individuals held by the U.S. government on suspicion of terrorism. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 3:48 am
"A cold-war case of CIA detention still echoes; The Yuri Nosenko affair unveiled US use of extreme isolation to try to 'break' the KGB defector": Today in The Christian Science Monitor, Warren Richey has an article that begins, "Behind the debate over the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction of videotapes depicting waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques lies a fundamental question: Can government officials use such… [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 8:11 am
Representative Harman didn't do anything about that, either . . . because the Intelligence oversight committees are entirely beholden to the agencies they are supposed to be overseeing. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 2:38 am
First, these agencies, especially the military, must be brought completely under civilian control. [read post]
22 Dec 2007, 3:14 pm
[JURIST] A panel of former 9/11 Commission [official website] members say the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) withheld videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, possibly violating federal law. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 3:23 pm
It is also dependent on effective delineations of responsibilities between and among federal agencies, across federal and state lines and state and local lines. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 3:14 pm
[JURIST] The US Central Intelligence agency (CIA) has requested that the Department of Justice [official websites] conduct an investigation into whether former CIA agent John Kiriakou illegally released classified information when he spoke to several news organizations last week [JURIST report] about CIA interrogations, officials said Thursday. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 2:23 pm
Its argument against Circuit Court power to make formal declarations of illegal torture of detainees was a highlight of the government’s brief, filed Thursday, urging the Circuit Court to turn aside two new legal claims by Majid Khan, one of the so-called “high-value” detainees now being held at Guantanamo who had been held overseas in secret Central Intelligence Agency operations. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 10:58 am
gave no clear hint of whether he might do something short of a broad probe of the Central Intelligence Agency’s public admission that it has destroyed two videotapes of harsh interrogation techniques on two Al-Qaeda terrorism suspects. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 10:00 am
[JURIST] The US Central Intelligence Agency will turn over information to Congress regarding the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects [JURIST news archive], Rep. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 9:34 am
Abu Zubaydah, the Guantanamo Bay detainee who is at the center of the controversy over the destruction of Central Intelligence Agency videotapes of aggressive interrogation tactics, is asking the D.C. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 5:17 am
Tapes": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 8:35 am
Rebuffing a Bush Administration suggestion that the courts stay out of the controversy over the destroyed Central Intelligence Agency videotapes, a U.S. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 3:07 pm
Lawyers for a group of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Monday accused the Bush Adminisration of trying to arrange that only federal agencies “implicated in the destruction” of Central Intelligence Agency videotapes of harsh interrogation sessions have any role in probing that incident. [read post]
