cia

Doctors who oversaw CIA waterboarding 'guilty of war crimes'

Niluccio — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:14:27 +0100

The medical ethics group has investigated the role of doctors and psychologists, in alleged cases of torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, Bagram and other US detention sites where the worst abuses appear to have taken place.

Source: Doctors who oversaw CIA waterboarding 'guilty of war crimes'

Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:59:25 +0100

CIA interrogators threatened a captured al-Qaida leader with a power drill and a pistol in what was described as a mock execution, according to a long-suppressed report due to be released on Monday.......The full findings on the CIA's interrogation programme are to be made public after a federal judge upheld an appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union for their release.
The report is understood to describe mock executions where interrogators tried to get detainees to talk by firing a gun in an adjoining room to pretend another prisoner had been killed.

Source: Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked | World news | guardian.co.uk

CIA hired Blackwater for al-Qaida assassination programme, sources say

DrPot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:19:04 +0100

The CIA enlisted the infamous security company Blackwater in a secret programme to track down and kill al-Qaida leaders, US intelligence sources confirmed today.
Blackwater staff, many of whom are former members of US special forces and former members of the CIA, were recruited in 2004 as part of the programme, estimated to have costs millions of dollars. No raid to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was ever carried out and the programme was closed down this year.
But the employment of Blackwater raised new questions about the legality of the CIA's behaviour during the Bush administration and about the agency's widespread use of outside contractors.

Source: CIA hired Blackwater for al-Qaida assassination programme, sources say

CIA and US military planned programme to assassinate al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries, former US intelligence officials say | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:05:06 +0100

Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without the knowledge of their governments, according to former intelligence officials.
Former counter-terrorism officials who retain close links to the intelligence community say that the hidden operation involved plans by the CIA and the military to launch operations, similar to those by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to hunt down and kill al-Qaida activists abroad without informing the governments concerned, even though some were regarded as friendly if unreliable.

Source: CIA and US military planned programme to assassinate al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries, former US intelligence officials say | World news | guardian.co.uk

Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

Niluccio — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:42:37 +0100

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say.

The existence of the programme, set up after 9/11, was hidden for eight years and even now its nature is not known.

Source: Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

Why the Bush torture architects must be prosecuted: A counter-terror expert speaks out

Niluccio — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:04:38 +0100

Reading the Bush Administration torture documents released last Thursday by the Department of Justice - documents all about inflicting pain, suffering and discomfort - I felt plenty of my own.

Source: Why the Bush torture architects must be prosecuted: A counter-terror expert speaks out

Obama publishes 'torture' memos

Niluccio — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:44:35 +0100

The US has published four secret memos detailing legal justification for the Bush-era CIA interrogation programme.

Critics of the programme say the methods used amounted to torture.

Source: Obama publishes 'torture' memos

U.S. Slaughters 200,000 in Guatemala

CapitalistHolocaust — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:40:38 +0000

US 'has launched secret attacks on al-Qaeda since 2004'

Niluccio — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:02:19 +0000

A classified order authorising attacks on al-Qaeda anywhere in the world, even in countries not a war with the US, was approved by Mr Bush and signed by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the newspaper said, citing anonymous US officials.

Despite the order, each mission required high-level government approval, the Times reported.

Source: US 'has launched secret attacks on al-Qaeda since 2004'

Iran used to be a Democracy

CapitalistHolocaust — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:46:53 +0100