Yahoo News | 3o June 2016 BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The CIA paid Romania “millions of dollars” to host secret prisons, a rights lawyer said Wednesday as the European Court of Human Rights heard accusations that Romania allowed the agency to torture terrorism suspects in a secret renditions program under President George W. Bush. Amrit…
News.com.au | 17 May 2016 Planes flying into the World Trade Center. Bodies falling from high-rise windows of the twin towers. The events of that day – the largest ever attack on American soil – are impossible to forget. The American public responded with fear and anger and the Bush administration responded with a plot…
RT | 15 May 2016 The US legal system has rejected the public disclosure of the full torture report, after American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued federal agencies just before the Senate’s release of a much shorter executive summary in 2014. “On the record before us, the Senate Committee’s intent to retain control of the…
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 14 Oct 2015 In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was 18 months after George W Bush had declared war on terror. “We cannot have enough blacksite hosts,” the official wrote. The reference was to one of the…
Washington’s Blog | 14 September 2014 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Veteran Intelligence Professionals Challenge CIA’s “Rebuttal” on Torture Former CIA leaders responsible for allowing torture to become part of the 21st Century legacy of the CIA are trying to rehabilitate their tarnished reputations with the release of a…
The Intercept | 19 May 2015 If you read the sketchy New York Times article on the Delta Force raid into Syria a few days ago — how an ISIS leader was killed when he “tried to engage” American commandos while his fighters used women and children as shields, and an 18-year-old slave was freed with no civilian casualties…
Bureau of Investigative Journalism | April 2015 An unprecedented picture of the 119 individuals secretly detained and tortured by the CIA as part of the US’s war on terror has been published following new research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Rendition Project. The analysis, which is summarised in our first quarterly report, reveals…
Nako Minchev | Global Research | March 04, 2015 It is common knowledge that at end-January 2015 the global movement Amnesty International published a report, titled “Breaking the conspiracy of silence: USA’s European “partners in crime” must act after Senate torture report”, which throws further light upon the information gathered within the US Senate investigation into torture…
The Guardian | 24 Feb 2015 he Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long…
TBIJ | 17 Feb 2015 The European Court of Human Rights today confirmed that the Polish government was complicit in the CIA’s secretive programme of rendition, detention and interrogation. The Court in Strasbourg today rejected a challenge from the Polish government to a landmark ruling from last July, a decision which now makes that original judgement final. July’s…