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Der UN-Sonderbotschafter Alston verlangt Aufklärung über das Programm, das gegen internationales Recht verstoßen könnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31409/1.html

Keine Unbeteiligten getötet?

Die Untersuchung des von Deutschen angeforderten Luftangriffs auf zwei entführte Tanklastwagen in Afghanistan wirft mehr Fragen als Antworten auf.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146449

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Drohne
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan

rudkla - 30. Okt, 09:49

When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home

Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski, Truthout: "The Louisiana board that licenses psychologists is facing a growing legal fight over torture and medical care at the infamous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. In 2003, Louisiana psychologist and retired Col. Larry James watched behind a one-way mirror in a US prison camp while an interrogator and three prison guards wrestled a screaming, near-naked man on the floor."

http://www.truthout.org/1029091

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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rudkla - 30. Okt, 09:40

Significant Changes to Bush-Era Military Commissions Signed Into Law

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "President Barack Obama signed a Defense Department spending bill into law Wednesday, which includes a provision that will change the way military commissions are structured. Human rights organizations and legal advocacy groups believe these controversial Bush-Era commissions primarily deny defendants the protections that federal courts provide and have responded with disappointment to their inclusion in defense legislation by a president who, during his presidential campaign, was quoted as saying he would 'reject the Military Commissions Act.'

http://www.truthout.org/1029098

Military Commissions Revived: Don't Do It, Mr. President!

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "I was so delighted that the Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday, included a hard-won concession that the administration can transfer prisoners from Guantanamo to the mainland to face trials (even though the legislation still bears the fingerprints of interfering lawmakers, and still, scandalously, prevents any innocent man from being rehoused in the country that falsely imprisoned him) that I overlooked two other distressing facts."

http://www.truthout.org/1103095

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Defense+Authorization+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+commissions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yana+Kunichoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington

rudkla - 30. Okt, 09:32

Secrets Claim Faces Another Review in Torture Case

William Fisher, Truthout: "The long road to the proverbial 'day in court' just got longer for five men who claim they were 'disappeared' and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency."

http://www.truthout.org/10290912

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

rudkla - 30. Okt, 09:25

The New Operations Manual from the F.B.I.

The new rules have given F.B.I. agents the most power in national security matters that they have had since the post-Watergate era.

http://documents.nytimes.com/the-new-operations-manual-from-the-f-b-i#p=1

Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns

One section lays out a low threshold to start investigating a person or group as a potential security threat. Another allows agents to use ethnicity or religion as a factor - as long as it is not the only one - when selecting subjects for scrutiny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29manual.html?_r=1

From Information Clearing House

rudkla - 30. Okt, 09:06

Pentagon officials won't confirm Bush propaganda program ended

The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.

http://snipurl.com/swrpg

From Information Clearing House

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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rudkla - 30. Okt, 08:57

NSA Supercenters to Store Americans' Private Data Permanently

By Thomas R. Eddlem

The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people's telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Antonio, Texas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23838.htm

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+R.+Eddlem

rudkla - 30. Okt, 08:28