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17 Oct 2006, 1:10 pm
[JURIST] A European Parliament delegation [official website] met with Romanian lawmaker Norica Nicolai [official profile, in Romanian] on Tuesday as part of its ongoing investigation [JURIST news archive] into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] held terror suspects in secret prisons [COE materials] throughout eastern Europe as part of its rendition program [read post]
17 Oct 2006, 7:04 am
" The principal theme of both documents, not surprisingly, is that "[t]his bill will allow the Central Intelligence Agency to continue its program for questioning key terrorist leaders and operatives like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. [read post]
21 Sep 2006, 6:32 pm
[JURIST] US Central Intelligence Agency [official website; JURIST news archive] officers concerned about being prosecuted [JURIST report] for illegal interrogation tactics refused to carry out interrogations of terror suspects, contributing to pressure on the Bush administration to empty its secret prisons and transfer top terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba [JURIST news archive], [read post]
15 Sep 2006, 8:18 am
[JURIST] One week after US President Bush confirmed [JURIST report; speech transcript] the existence of secret prisons for high-value terror suspects [CRS report text, via Secrecy News] run by the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] abroad, top-level members of the Council of the European Union [official website] publicly criticized [press release] the program Friday. [read post]
15 Sep 2006, 2:08 am
[JURIST] Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos [official profile, in Spanish; Euroresidentes profile] acknowledged Thursday that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] planes transporting detainees to secret prisons [JURIST news archive] in Europe may have stopped over on its soil. [read post]
11 Sep 2006, 6:09 am
[JURIST] A large percentage of US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] counterterrorism officers have bought government-reimbursed private insurance plans [Wright backgrounder] that cover potential civil judgments and legal expenses associated with charges of criminal wrongdoing, according to Monday's Washington Post. [read post]
9 Sep 2006, 8:16 am
[JURIST] German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website, in German, BBC profile] Saturday joined other Europeans in criticizing the Bush administration for admittedly operating clandestine Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] detention centers in Europe, a practice which she called "not compatible with my understanding of the rule of law. [read post]
8 Sep 2006, 1:47 am
Bush said such methods had been effective in getting some of the 14 top Al Qaeda suspects held by the agency to talk. [read post]
7 Sep 2006, 9:14 pm
In defending the Central Intelligence Agency's secret network of prisons on Wednesday, President Bush said the detention system had used lawful interrogation techniques, was fully described to select members of Congress and led directly to the capture of a string of terrorists over the past four years. [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 7:09 am
[JURIST] US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged [speech transcript] that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects [DNI backgrounder, PDF] were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects [DNI profiles, PDF] have now been transferred to the Defense Department's military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST [read post]
5 Sep 2006, 7:33 am
The central issue in the case is what type of appointees are the members of the PCAOB? [read post]
31 Jul 2006, 2:41 pm
[JURIST] A senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] had planned to kidnap more than 10 Muslims suspected of terrorism from Italy and elsewhere and deliver them to Middle Eastern countries for interrogation and detention, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. [read post]
24 Jul 2006, 9:39 am
[JURIST] Jordan [JURIST news archive] is a "central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers" allegedly operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] and foreign intelligence agencies, according to an Amnesty International [advocacy website] report [text; press release] written by Malcolm Smart, the director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa unit. [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 2:39 am
[JURIST] The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri [JURIST news archive], a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive], the German Justice Ministry [official website, in German] said Sunday. [read post]
27 Jun 2006, 3:34 pm
[JURIST] The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly [official website] on Tuesday passed a resolution [draft text] adopting the report [PDF text] of Swiss legislator Dick Marty accusing European countries of colluding with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in transporting terror suspects in a "global spider's web" [COE graphic] of secret prisons and rendition flights. [read post]
23 Jun 2006, 12:58 am
[JURIST] US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] counterterrorism agents secretly reviewed financial records of Americans listed in an international database after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks [JURIST news archive], focusing on people with links to al Qaeda, according to reports by the New York Times late Thursday and the Los Angeles Times Friday. [read post]
22 Jun 2006, 6:04 am
[JURIST] No evidence has surfaced to disprove the extraordinary rendition allegations [statement] of the German man who sued the US Central Intelligence Agency, a German prosecutor familiar with the evidence collected by the German government in the case said Thursday. [read post]
13 Jun 2006, 1:35 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] to force the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] to turn over two documents relating to the CIA's overseas interrogation practices under the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text; DOJ materials] request. [read post]
12 Jun 2006, 4:56 pm
[JURIST] A European Parliament [official website] committee [official website] approved a report Monday that supports allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] was "directly responsible for the illegal seizure, removal, abduction and detention of terrorist suspects" in Europe. [read post]
12 Jun 2006, 5:59 am
[JURIST] Spain's National Court said Monday it would investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] used an airport on the island of Mallorca in its alleged "spider's web" of extraordinary rendition flights to transport terror suspects. [read post]
