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31 Mar 2008, 2:50 pm
Kurnaz's story, like that of fellow German citizen and victim of extraordinary rendition Khaled el-Masri, is a shameful indictment of the inhumane practices and policies of the Bush administration's so-called war on terror. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 11:29 am
Torture on Trial: How the Alien Tort Statute May Expose the United States Government's Illegal ‘Extraordinary Rendition' Program Through its Use of a Private Contractor Jamie Rodriguez Satellite Remote Sensing: Commercialization of Remote Sensing. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 2:06 pm
The readings highlighted the U.S. government's unlawful use of torture and cruelty, secret and arbitrary detention, and extraordinary rendition in its counterterrorism efforts. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 8:38 am
On Monday, the AP reported that the CIA has increased its legal liability insurance to cover two-thirds of all CIA personnel, not just the ones who are subject to lawsuits accusing them of unlawful torture, harsh interrogation techniques, and extraordinary rendition (all of which violate U.S. and international law). [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 10:19 am
It also bristled at allegations with regard to the racially and ethnically discriminatory character of extraordinary renditions. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 12:28 am
“Britain’s denials that its territories have been used for ‘extraordinary rendition’ were dramatically undermined last night after the United Nations claimed that Diego Garcia has been used as a detention centre to hold US suspects. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 1:56 pm
What they are really seeing is the handiwork of the Billboard Liberation Front, which declares in a press release that it's celebrating "an extraordinary rendition of a public-private partnership. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 11:32 am
" Best Documentary award-winner Alex Gibney also wore an ACLU orange ribbon and joked about his film Taxi to the Dark Side, "Truth is, I think my dear wife Anne was kind of hoping I would make a romantic comedy, but honestly, after Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, that simply wasn't possible. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 11:12 pm
"Wills proceeded to link misapprehension of that term to the Nixon-era firing of special prosecutors appointed to investigate Watergate and, more recently, to what he called the "fetishistic ... secrecy" that's enabled the current administration to obscure extraordinary renditions and other excesses of its post-September 11 campaign against terrorism. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 5:15 am
  In other words, the Court did not go to the original source for the quote but relied on a secondary rendition. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 10:30 am
[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband [official profile; BBC profile] said Thursday that two US planes landed on the UK territory of Diego Garcia in 2002 to refuel during extraordinary rendition flights [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 6:54 am
MPs from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition used powers under the Freedom of Information Act to request minutes of US/UK political military talks held in a Washington in September last year. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 1:13 pm
In other torture news, ACLU of Northern California Executive Director Maya Harris authored an op-ed for the Sacramento Bee today about today's hearing in San Jose in our extraordinary rendition case against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 8:08 am
Let’s hope our case lives to see another day so that five victims of extraordinary rendition will get their day in court too. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 4:32 am
  On the other hand, he's still one of my favorite pianists because his performances are so extraordinary!!! [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 1:52 pm
Director Gavin Hood's film "Rendition" dealt with the practice of extraordinary rendition, a practice the ACLU has been challenging through litigating of two cases. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 10:16 am
"I don't think a country that practices extraordinary rendition and has denied people habeas corpus and has practiced torture, that is not a country I am very proud of," he said. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 2:19 pm
This is no idle speculation, given what we know about “extraordinary renditions” and CIA black sites, and in light of rumors of the closing of the detention center at Guantánamo.Hopefully the court will heed the findings of groups such as the ACLU who have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in this case. [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 12:29 am
Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects. [read post]