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25 Aug 2009, 11:38 am
Bybee, who before landing on the Ninth Circuit U.S. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 4:02 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Washington Post – WikiLeaks posts files it says are from the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal – “The anti-secrecy organization said the trove exceeded in scale and significance the massive collection of National Security Agency documents exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 12:00 pm by Mike "No Man" Navarre
The WaPo reports, here, that Raymond Davis, the former Special Forces soldier and current CIA contractor “who fatally shot two Pakistani men in January was released Wednesday after relatives of the victims received ‘blood money’ as compensation and agreed to pardon him, U.S. officials said. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:23 am by Brian Greer
For me personally, the proposition is simple: The United States should treat foreign detainees, even terrorists who don’t share U.S. values, in the same manner that we would expect our service members to be treated. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 1:21 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 4:38 pm by Jeralyn
With the declassified version of the Inspector General's report outlining the CIA's unauthorized intrusion into U.S. [read post]
For example, in March 2005, based in part on information provided by the CIA's OPA, the New York Times quoted an unnamed senior U.S. official as claiming that "intelligence obtained by those rendered, detained and interrogated ha[d] disrupted terrorist operations" and saved lives in the United States and abroad. * * * As these and other stories show, the CIA had an institutional interest in maintaining its ability to torture detainees ­– and the… [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 5:09 pm
“The accepted position is that there is no way this happened without him being aware or involved,” said a U.S. official familiar with the CIA’s conclusions....The CIA sees Mohammed as a “good technocrat,” the U.S. official said, but also as volatile and arrogant, someone who “goes from zero to 60, doesn’t seem to understand that there are some things you can’t do. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 12:17 pm by Suzanne Ito
Like in our separate FOIA case seeking information about the legal and factual basis for the targeted killing of U.S. citizens, the CIA takes the position in this lawsuit that it can neither confirm nor deny whether it has a drone strike program at all. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 6:32 pm by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
This motion came in our ongoing litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for records related to the detention and treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody abroad. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 12:48 pm by David Friedman
He assured me, and I am sure believed, that the NSA could be trusted, that organization culture would prevent them from illegal spying on U.S. citizens even if they thought they could get away with it. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 9:14 pm
"U.S. battling CIA rendition case in 3 courts": Bob Egelko will have this article Monday in The San Francisco Chronicle. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 1:12 am by Ryan Mulvey
BuzzFeed Says Trump Tweet Opens CIA's Syria Docs to FOIAChuck Stanley, Law360, Oct. 20, 2017Law360, Washington (October 20, 2017, 4:35 PM EDT) -- A senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News on Thursday filed suit against the CIA in D.C. federal court seeking documents related to alleged U.S. payments to Syrian rebels referenced in a July tweet by President Donald Trump.The CIA has failed to indicate whether it will comply with a Sept. 12 Freedom of… [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 11:39 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
While these measures are an important step in ensuring accountability for U.S. actions on the global stage, they do not absolve the U.S. from its own responsibility under international law to hold those who were responsible for CIA abuses accountable, and release information about the unlawful activities carried out as part of the extraordinary rendition program. [read post]