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The Assault on Liberties: Who’s Really Responsible?
By Barry Lando Bush’s Draconian measures range from the suspension of habeas corpus to warrantless eavesdropping to the right of the president to decide what constitutes torture, to prisons where hundreds... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Remote Polish airstrip holds clues to secret CIA flights
In late 2002 and 2003, there was a flurry of unusual activity at Mazury-Szczytno International Airport, a former military facility that happens to be near a Polish intelligence training complex where European... ...
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... ...
In Torture Case Against Rumsfeld, Lawyers Cite “Widespread Pattern” of Abuse
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be held accountable for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody. That was the argument made last week by the ACLU and Human Rights First... ...
Pinochet is gone, but his methods are still with us
A new report collating first-hand accounts gives us the clearest view yet of the torture going on in the US's secret prisons. http://www.guardian.co.u k/comment/story/0,,1970868 ,00.html Abusive Interrogations... ...
McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush
In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia representative Cynthia McKinney announced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. http://www.truthout .org/docs_2006/120806Z.sht ml A... ...
CIA acknowledges Bush signed secret directive on interrogating terror suspect
"A directive signed by President Bush granting the CIA the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and outlining interrogation methods that may be used against detainees," the... ...