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19 Sep 2018, 3:30 pm
  Still, according to the U.S. government and the federal courts, the CIA’s operation of drones to hunt and kill terrorism suspects — a campaign that has killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children, in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — remains an official secret. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 3:10 am
Her decision to downplay these disagreements and focus on common interests has given U.S. [read post]
22 May 2007, 10:25 am
"We have repeatedly asked U.S. authorities to be notified and have access to all detainees, including those held by the CIA," said Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Washington. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 1:29 pm by Suzanne Ito
First, the President and the CIA Director have officially acknowledged the CIA's targeted killing program. [read post]
The government used the “state secrets” privilege to persuade U.S. courts to dismiss the case previously brought in the federal courts by the ACLU on behalf of the same victims against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a flight logistics company that facilitated CIA “torture flights” across the globe. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:16 pm
The lawsuit, filed under the Alien Tort Statute, claims that Boeing's subsidiary knowingly aided the CIA in transporting terror suspects to secret overseas locations, where they were tortured. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 10:51 am by Robert Loeb, Emma Kohse
  Under the state secrets doctrine, the U.S. government can seek to exclude evidence from any civil trial by asserting that legal proceedings on the topic risk disclosing sensitive information and pose a threat to national security. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 1:57 pm
By Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty Source: National Public Radio By Tom Gjelten December 14, 2009 Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security. [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 5:20 pm
In an earlier post, I wrote that there was really no difficult question with respect to prescribing CIA interrogation techniquesâ€â [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 4:22 pm by Bill Otis
But former and current U.S. officials who requested anonymity said Durham was looking at the deaths of Gul Rahman and Manadel al-Jamadi. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 6:55 pm by Brian Leiter
What the editorial says seems right--in shorter form, the U.S. is a lawless, criminal nation on the international scene, but we all knew that, right? [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 4:35 am
Michael Scheuer is an ex-CIA analyst, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden squad, and founder (during the Clinton Administration) of the extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 6:14 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The CIA, the National Security Agency, and the 15 other components of the U.S. intelligence community restructured, reformed, and retooled. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 3:11 pm
Two U.S. intelligence officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because of the sensitivity of the case, said the leak investigation involved a program that CIA Director Leon E. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 7:45 am by Brian Greer
In addition, if the study ultimately contributes to its goal of ensuring that the U.S. government never repeats these mistakes, it will have generated a critical achievement despite these flaws. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:42 pm by Freda Carmack
The Department cites concerns about the images inciting violence against Americans overseas and compromising confidential information about CIA and military techniques. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 2:34 am
The hacking group LulzSec, which has taken responsibility for breaching the websites of the CIA and the U.S. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:19 am by Federal and Extradition Defense
"Even while sneaking into the U.S. illegally aboard a yacht, an ex-CIA operative was more worried an interview with the New York Times on bombings in Havana would damage his standing with American authorities, a top prosecution witness testified Tuesday. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 12:37 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The CIA refuses even to confirm or deny that it has a drone program, and the U.S. government refuses to fully disclose to the public what rules it applies: The world knows that the United States is conducting these targeted killings on a regular basis, and the absurd fiction that the program is too secret for open discussion is increasingly untenable. [read post]