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Dumbed down news drives down newspaper circulation - Online Journal
Dumbed down news drives down newspaper circulation
Online Journal, FL - Jerry Mazza, Jerry Mazza
The Center has taken action accordingly -- from its numerous legal cases challenging attacks on dissent, unlawful detention, extraordinary rendition, torture and other abuses, to its advocacy and education work addressing those same issues -- in order ...
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Rice Defends Enhanced Interrogations - Washington Post
Rice Defends Enhanced Interrogations
Washington Post, United States - Glenn Kessler
If it were about torture, they (Eugene Robinson, et al) would be talking about Extraordinary Rendition invented by the Clinton-Gore administration. Please, oh please get off your high-horse about Americans not torturing during WW2. ...
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Garzón to Open Investigation into Creation of Guantánamo Prison Camp - CafeSentido.com
Garzón to Open Investigation into Creation of Guantánamo Prison Camp
CafeSentido.com, NJ - J.E. Robertson
Garzón's actions, in line with US Constitutional law, are intended, most likely, as a nudge to US officials to open a substantive criminal probe into extraordinary rendition, undisclosed detention and enhanced interrogation.
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Torture Flight Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Reinstated by US ... - Dissident Voice
Torture Flight Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Reinstated by US ...
Dissident Voice, CA - john andrews
As I reported in February, “as predictably as night follows day,” Obama's purported “change” administration “defended the CIA's practice of ‘extraordinary rendition' (kidnapping) of suspected ‘terrorists' to third countries where they are subject to ...
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The President's Equivocations on State Secrets - The Washington Independent
The President's Equivocations on State Secrets
The Washington Independent, DC - Daphne Eviatar
Jeppesen Dataplan, in which the plaintiff is suing the private company that helped the CIA carry out “extraordinary rendition” and torture — the Department of Justice could have easily asked for more time to consider the application of the “state ...
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Tristate Regional News, Thursday 4/30 - WTVW
Tristate Regional News, Thursday 4/30
WTVW, IN
Now, the court has reinstated allegations that the Boeing unit, Jeppesen Dataplan, provided critical flight planning to the cia's "extraordinary rendition" program. The ruling is a blow to both Boeing and the Obama administration, who asserted the ...
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Obama and Churchill - Politico
Obama and Churchill
Politico, DC - Ben Smith
... three prisoners) after 9/11 were patty cake compared to the things that the British did in WWII, the French did in Algeria, that the Syrians and Egyptians did to prisoners handed to them by the Clinton Administration after extraordinary rendition. ...
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Appeals Court Reinstates Black Site Torture Lawsuit - AllGov
Appeals Court Reinstates Black Site Torture Lawsuit
AllGov, CA
The ugly truth about the cia's extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim they ...
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Court Reins in State Secrets Privilege - Military.com
Court Reins in State Secrets Privilege
Military.com
The ruling, which was hailed by human rights advocates, came in connection with a lawsuit against a company known as Jeppesen DataPlan for its role in the government's "extraordinary rendition" program during the administration of former President ...
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Obama: State Secrets Privilege Is ‘Overbroad' - Wired News
Obama: State Secrets Privilege Is ‘Overbroad'
Wired News - Kevin Poulsen
Describing the Justice Department as essentially on auto-pilot when pushing for the blanket dismissal of warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition cases would be reasonable enough if this were Obama's 14th day in office, instead of his 100th. ...
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President Obama, We Want the Truth About the Bush Administration - AlterNet
President Obama, We Want the Truth About the Bush Administration
AlterNet, CA
We do not know what laws may have been broken through the use of "extraordinary rendition." This was the practice of sweeping people up and transferring them to secret CIA "black sites" or to countries -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan, ...
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Fed court revives rendition lawsuit against Boeing - San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription)
Fed court revives rendition lawsuit against Boeing
San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription), CA
(NYSE: BA) can be sued for allegedly flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons around the world to be tortured as part of the cia's "extraordinary rendition" program. You are not currently logged in at San Diego Source. To view the complete article ...
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Tortured by the world's greatest democracy - Socialist Worker Online
Tortured by the world's greatest democracy
Socialist Worker Online, IL
... preferred torture technique of the Spanish Inquisition--was officially entered into the American arsenal in the so-called war on terror, along with "preemptive war," "extraordinary rendition" and the "indefinite detention of enemy combatants. ...
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The State-Secrets Privilege, Tamed - New York Times
The State-Secrets Privilege, Tamed
New York Times, United States
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated a civil lawsuit brought against a government contractor by five victims of the extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners ...
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Cheney's Twisted World - Australia.TO
Cheney's Twisted World
Australia.TO, Australia
... exact figure provides into the supremely secretive world of “extraordinary rendition” and secret prisons that exists beyond the cases of the 14 “high-value detainees” who were transferred to Guantánamo from secret CIA custody in September 2006. ...
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Obama's 100 Days - Center for Research on Globalization
Obama's 100 Days
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
... massive government spying operation directed against the population—the better to continue and expand it, and block the efforts of victims of US crimes such as “extraordinary rendition” to hold accountable those who participated in such actions. ...
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Court rebuffs state secrets claim in rendition case - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Court rebuffs state secrets claim in rendition case
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, VA
yesterday reinstated a lawsuit brought by former detainees who claim they were tortured as part of the Central Intelligence Agency's “extraordinary rendition" program. The case, Binyam Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., was brought by five ...
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Courts Give up Hope on Executive Branch State Secrets Claims - OMB Watch
Courts Give up Hope on Executive Branch State Secrets Claims
OMB Watch
On April 28, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Boeing subsidiary Jeppeson DataPlan, which participated in flying suspected terrorists to foreign countries to be tortured as part of the CIA “extraordinary rendition” program, can be sued. ...
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Something Bigger Than Phil: An Agnostic Looks Up During the Swine ... - Huffington Post
Something Bigger Than Phil: An Agnostic Looks Up During the Swine ...
Huffington Post, NY
Extraordinary rendition to avoid having blood on our hands? The destruction of a major American city while grossly incompetent Bush cronies look the other way? Melamine in our baby formula? Melamine in our pet food? ...
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Memo to President Obama on Torture - Consortium News
Memo to President Obama on Torture
Consortium News
In contrast, we believe you were badly misguided in giving a prominent White House post to former CIA director George Tenet's protégé John Brennan, who has publicly defended “extraordinary rendition” in full knowledge that its purpose was torture. ...
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