Ukraine Implicated in CIA Renditions

An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA-operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program.

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EU Lawmakers Allege Numerous CIA Flights

The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 clandestine flights in Europe since 2001, and some of them secretly took away terror suspects to countries where they could face torture, European Union lawmakers said Wednesday.

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In March 2003, two C.I.A. officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief of the agency's main European supply base, with an unusual request. They wanted his help building secret prisons to hold some of the world's most threatening terrorists.

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Poll This Myth that George Bush kept America safe is a lie plain and simple and a Republican attempt to rewrite history.

The plain and simple truth is that George Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001 and the era of the Clinton Presidency officially ended that same afternoon as one President passed on his power and the responsibility for safe guarding the nation to the newly sworn in Pr …

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President Obama reverses himself and now says he will not release prisoner photos

Poll These pictures are so bad that President Obama just announced today 05/13/2009 a reverse of his position and announced that he he now must oppose the release of these photos because of their potential to create more harm and danger to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Poll Would President Ronald Reagan have authorized Torture?

Would the President who signed the international treaty banning torture have authorized the use of Torture by American military and intelligence personnel. Did Ronald Reagan' s Department of Justice ever prosecute any one for torture?

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The proclamation that President George W. Bush issued on June 26, 2003, to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture seemed innocuous, one of dozens of high-minded statements published and duly ignored each year.

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Last week, we pointed out that one of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect [1] named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called "enhanced interrogation techniques." The CIA …

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Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the last two years of George W.

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The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.

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The CIA is to close down its global network of secret prisons, where "war on terror" suspects were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, Leon Panetta, the agency's director, has said.

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The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced.

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Closing Gitmo and CIA Prisons: Who is fighting hardest to KEEP this blot against the U.S. global character?

This article was first begun as a tangential comment on an Adam Goldman AP article about a 1970s-era terrorist about to finish his 30-year prison term and be up for release, having paid his court-mandated legal penalty for the crime he committed.

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I knew I was in Tajikistan this week when my Lebanese roaming mobile phone welcomed me to "Russia" on arrival at Dushanbe airport. Yup folks, Alpha Beirut really believed I was in Mr Putin's empire.

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Outgoing Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Friday refused to deny the CIA had engaged in transporting terror suspects to countries that routinely practice torture, when asked by a Danish television reporter.

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Thirty-eight retired generals and admirals today appealed to the United States Senate to enact legislation ending the practice of holding "ghost detainees" by requiring that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) be notified of and given access to all prisoners in th …

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A Polish newspaper has reported that a top secret memo confirms the existence of a secret CIA prison in Poland, a claim rejected by the Polish government.

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Interrogators were told: 'If a detainee dies, you're doing it wrong.' By Nat Hentoff Wednesday, July 9th 2008

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The interrogator, Deuce Martinez, a soft-spoken analyst who spoke no Arabic, had turned down a C.I.A. offer to be trained in waterboarding.

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Lawyers for a terrorism suspect from suburban Baltimore who's imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claim they have evidence that their client "was subjected to a program of state-sanctioned torture" while he was in CIA custody. ...

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Yes, this is how it starts. The government starts tracking people without probable cause. Then, later, it seizes them and ships them to secret overseas prisons....outrageous.

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On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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CIA Director Michael V Hayden has mounted a highly unusual challenge to the agency's chief watchdog, ordering an internal investigation of an inspector general who has issued a series of scathing reports sharply critical of top CIA officials, according to government officials fam …

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The secret CIA overseas detention program first exposed by the Washington Post remains active, according to a senior US counterterrorism official who went on the record in Thursday's New York Times.

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By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN Published: October 4, 2007

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Fresh allegations that British airports were secretly used by the CIA to "render" Islamist terror suspects to be tortured in secret prisons or held in Guantánamo Bay are to be investigated by Scottish prosecutors.

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You don't have to dust for long before finding Dick Cheney's grimy fingerprints all over the Bush crime scene. It's becoming clearer by the day that behind every one of Bush's illegal actions lurks the shadow of the Vice President.

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