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20 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
Terrorism - The Constitutional Court of Italy, in a ruling delivered on March 11, 2009, held that wiretap surveillance on Italian secret service agents by Milan prosecutors in the Abu Omar rendition case had violated state secrecy laws.... [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
Terrorism - The Constitutional Court of Italy, in a ruling delivered on March 11, 2009, held that wiretap surveillance on Italian secret service agents by Milan prosecutors in the Abu Omar rendition case had violated state secrecy laws... [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 8:02 am
And if the threat of an ICC investigation makes future American leaders think twice before approving extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects or torture of prisoners -- actions that deeply compromised this nation's core principles and its moral standing in the world -- so much the better.Court opponents also make much of the fact that suspects are tried exclusively by judges rather than juries. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 8:34 am
Author and journalism professor Mark Danner points out in his newly published New York Review of Books article that American journalists have written often of the existence of "black sites" -- secret overseas prisons -- and of associated controversies over "extraordinary rendition" of terror suspects and the use of torture, by U.S. officials or their foreign proxies. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 2:46 pm
This sounds like the "extraordinary rendition"/"rendition" debate.PS: Bush also advanced arguments based on the law of war and the AUMF. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 7:59 am
[T]he Obama Justice Department backstopped the Bush Justice Department's assertion of the state secrets privilege to block lawsuits challenging wiretapping and extraordinary rendition. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 10:33 am
Times published a story which reported that Obama would continue the practice of rendition -- despite having ordered the end of torture and the closure of CIA prisons.Many liberals rushed to defend the government through formalistic arguments, which parsed Obama's "rendition" and Bush's "extraordinary rendition. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 10:36 pm
Many liberals strained to parse the differences between "good" rendition and "bad" extraordinary rendition once it became clear that Obama would continue the practice. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 7:28 pm
For example, in a lawsuit brought against the Jeppesen company, a Boeing subsidiary, by five alleged victims of “extraordinary rendition,” the Obama administration invoked the “state secrets” doctrine to keep certain documents out of the hands of the plaintiffs, with the apparent aim of depriving them of their day in court. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 3:50 pm
The Obama Justice Department today released nine OLC memos from the Bush administration ruling on everything from executive military detention of U.S. citizens to executive authority to engage in extraordinary rendition. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 6:51 am
[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Defence John Hutton [official profile] gave a statement [MOD press release] to the UK House of Commons [official website] Thursday providing details of participation with US forces in the rendition of terrorism suspects from Iraq to US detention in Afghanistan, possibly by way of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition [JURIST news [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 6:26 pm
Justice Department lawyers already asserted the state secrets privilege once this month to dismiss a suit over the government's controversial extraordinary rendition program, and today the DOJ filed an emergency motion in the Ninth Circuit U.S. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 6:07 am
"A nasty privilege, reasserted": The Boston Globe today contains an editorial that begins, "The Obama administration parroted the Bush administration last week in asserting a state-secrets privilege in a civil suit involving so-called 'extraordinary rendition' and the torture of terrorist suspects. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 4:12 am
That is, in Le Piege de Meduse (7 pieces for piano), it is reported that at the first rendition Satie placed pieces of paper among the piano strings to create interesting sound effects. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 3:09 pm
., the Ninth Circuit case on extraordinary rendition (more here, and see Glenn Greenwald's excellent analysis at Salon.com), legislation has been re-introduced in the... [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 9:21 am
Department of State (DOS), resulting from their lawsuit seeking the disclosure of government documents that relate to secret detention, extraordinary rendition, and torture. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 12:38 pm
So we've got news that Obama will continue with the extraordinary renditions policy of the Bush administration (sans the 'torture'; also people need to get their terminology straight: 'rendition' or 'ordinary rendition' is taken to refer to transfers regulated by law - e.g. extradition; extraordinary rendition is any extra-judicial transfer and so as such doesn't necessarily involve torture). [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 8:45 am
The most famous example is the use of Guantanamo Bay as a detention center, but many other examples of extraterritorial activity exist, such as the practice of "extraordinary rendition. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 12:03 am
Torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition are the most vividly visible examples. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 9:31 am
., which they say provided aircraft to the Central Intelligence Agency for the "extraordinary rendition" program. [read post]
