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19 Jul 2011, 7:20 am
[JURIST] Three Pakistani men filed a complaint on Monday seeking to arrest former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] legal counsel for authorizing unmanned predator drone strikes [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
30 Nov 2005, 11:50 am
[JURIST] UK rights group Liberty [advocacy website] has threatened to take legal action [press release] against the British government and senior police officers unless they agree to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] has operated "torture flights" that have landed in the UK. [read post]
21 May 2012, 3:44 pm
"2nd Circuit shields CIA interrogation documents": Terry Baynes of Reuters has a report that begins, "The Central Intelligence Agency does not have to disclose records of interrogation techniques used against terrorism suspects in 2002, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 1:14 pm
Prosecutors accuse Lee of taking up to 11 billion won (USD $10 million) in bribes from his intelligence agency and other business groups, including Samsung [corporate website].... [read post]
18 Nov 2005, 5:50 am
[JURIST] A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] has called US Vice President Dick Cheney [official website] a "vice president for torture," saying that the Bush administration condones and even approves torture policies. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 6:22 am
Ghailani's lawyers had sought a dismissal of charges, arguing that he was denied the right to a speedy trial [JURIST reports] while being detained for nearly five years in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] secret prisons and later... [read post]
7 Jun 2006, 4:39 am
[JURIST] Fourteen European countries collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency by taking an active or passive role in a "global spider's web" of secret prisons and rendition flights, Swiss legislator Dick Marty said Wednesday in a report [PDF text] from the Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe [official website], as part of the CoE's investigation into alleged secret [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 8:46 am
[JURIST] A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] was not in contempt of court for destroying videotapes [press release] thought to have shown harsh interrogations of terror suspects, but ordered the CIA to pay attorneys fees to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website]. [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]
31 Oct 2014, 8:16 am
" Today at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a blog post that begins, "While Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for the Senate and the Obama Administration to lay bare the alleged abuse of detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody, his Justice Department is going to unusual lengths to impose a complete black-out on details about the investigations he supervised into those same incidents. [read post]
16 May 2006, 7:35 am
[JURIST] Martin Scheinin [official profile], UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, said Tuesday that US officials have been stonewalling investigations into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency [official website] flew terrorism [JURIST news archive] suspects through Europe to countries where they could be tortured [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 12:43 am
[JURIST] Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Royce Lamberth found [opinion, PDF] Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] committed fraud in its efforts to keep documents related to eavesdropping allegations a secret. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Wednesday again refused [decision, PDF] to hold the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] in contempt for destroying videotapes of detainee interviews following the events of 9/11 [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 4:39 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday applauded [press release] the Lithuanian Vilnius Regional Court [official website] ruling that Saudi Arabian national Mustafa al-Hawsawi has a right to investigate his alleged torture in a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] detention center. [read post]
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]
11 Dec 2007, 8:34 am
Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two terrorist suspects may offer a timely reminder for CIOs at private companies in the U.S. tasked with electronic evidence preservation rules since last December.The e-discovery rules — amendments to U.S. courts’ Federal Rules [...] [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 6:12 am
Rizzo to become the Central Intelligence Agency's top lawyer amid mounting opposition from Democrats over his role in the harsh interrogation of C.I.A. detainees. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 9:41 am
[JURIST] Two human rights groups released documents [text, PDF] Monday confirming that planes associated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive] landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 11:51 am
[JURIST] A Swiss judge on Thursday called for the prosecution of three engineers who have links to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] for allegedly smuggling nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan. [read post]
11 May 2012, 8:58 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colombia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the final volume in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] history of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba will remain secret. [read post]
