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Fate of Many "Ghost Prisoners" Still Unknown
The US government should account for all "ghost prisoners" detained by the CIA in secret prisons around the world, urges a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, "Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret... ...
New Light Shed on CIA's "Black Site" Prisons
Human Rights Watch has identified 38 people who may have been held by the CIA and remain unaccounted for. The number of detainees held in such facilities over nearly five years remains classified but is... ...
US: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing
The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. http://snipurl.com/1bjkz Full... ...
The Politics of the Man Behind "24"
For all its fictional liberties, "24" depicts the fight against Islamist extremism much as the Bush administration has defined it: as an all-consuming struggle for America's survival that demands the toughest... ...
Growth spurt predicted for US prisons
Salt Lake Tribune 02/16/07 Get-tou gh policies that lock up offenders for longer sentences are propelling a projected increase of nearly 200,000 in the nation’s prison population in the next five years,... ...
EU endorses damning report on CIA
The European parliament has approved a damning report on secret CIA flights, condemning member states which colluded in the operations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/ hi/in_depth/6360817.stm Switzerland... ...
US Refuses to Sign Global Ban on Secret Detentions
http://www.commondreams.or g/headlines07/0207-03.htm -------- U.S. fails to sign treaty banning secret prisons Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people... ...
UK admits prior knowledge of secret CIA prison network
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett admitted Friday in a written response to a parliamentary question that Britain was "aware of the existence of a secret US detention program" prior to a September... ...
Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power
President Bush's decision to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court represents the latest step back from the expansive interpretation of executive... ...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-------- A Time to Break Silence "A time comes when silence is betrayal." By Rev. Martin Luther King In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 --... ...