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5 Dec 2006, 6:42 am
[JURIST] Italian prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to issue indictments for 26 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] agents and five officials from the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) [official website], including former SISMI chief Nicola Pollari, on kidnapping charges for allegedly orchestrating the extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] of [read post]
14 May 2009, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Speaker of the US House of Representatives [official website] Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) [official website] said Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] misled Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques [JURIST news archive] during the Bush administration. [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]
25 Feb 2014, 8:27 am by Bradley McAllister
[JURIST] Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation [official website, in Italian], on Monday dismissed the convictions of five Italian agents related to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [JURIST news archive]. [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]
8 Jun 2007, 2:17 am
[JURIST] The trial of 26 US Central Intelligence Agency agents [JURIST news archive] and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition [JURIST news archive] of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news archive; Wikipedia profile] opened in Milan Friday in the absence of all American defendants. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 1:59 am
[JURIST] Members of Congress on Monday called for an investigation into a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program designed to kill al Qaeda members. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 7:02 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Wednesday approved by voice vote a ban prohibiting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] from allowing private contractors to interrogate detainees. [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]
14 Dec 2017, 1:30 pm by Andrew Morgan
Melzer urged US authorities to take action on the findings in the 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee Report [JURIST report], which found that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] deliberately misled Congress and the White House about information obtained using enhanced interrogation techniques between 2002 and 2007, and that those... [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 8:54 am
[JURIST] The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] contacted Italian intelligence about the possibility of performing extraordinary renditions [JURIST news archive] in the days following the September 11 attacks, according to testimony during Italian judicial proceedings against US and Italian agents on Thursday. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 5:00 am by Gabe Rottman
The degree of involvement of these groups with intelligence agencies is a legitimate subject of national debate and intra-group discourse. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 8:30 am by Tom Smith
Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns announced in October that the agency is establishing two new major “mission centers,” one focusing on China and the other on frontier technologies. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
David Kris sat down with David Robarge, the chief historian at the Central Intelligence Agency, to discuss covert action. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 12:38 pm by Tom Smith
The Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets since winning a secret victory in 2018 when President Trump signed what amounts to a sweeping authorization for such activities, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter.The secret authorization, known as a presidential finding, gives the spy agency more freedom in both the kinds of operations it conducts and who it… [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 6:38 am by Terin Tashi Miller
The Central Intelligence Agency has avoided a potential showdown with a Manhattan federal judge. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 4:54 pm
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. [read post]
17 May 2019, 7:18 am by David Kris
As Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), testified to Congress in 2005, using a different metaphor, the “more success you have with regard to collection, the more you’re swimming in an ocean of data,” and so the intelligence community had to develop new technology “to help us deal with masses of information and to turn it into usable things for American… [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 4:58 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Several months after EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency, the agency has released the Inspector General’s report on the agency’s surveillance of Congress. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 10:00 am by Guest Blogger
Additionally, user groups develop meta-tools such as genome browsers and freely distribute them throughout the community, thus helping to make genomic data more intelligible. [read post]