Endangered CIA Torture Report Sparks Shock, Anger And A Lawsuit
Government agencies are still working overtime to conceal a Senate report containing details on the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program.
Government agencies are still working overtime to conceal a Senate report containing details on the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program.
A heavily redacted trove details death of detainees and draft letter requesting interrogators be protected from prosecution.
The CIA on Tuesday released dozens of documents detailing its torture and rendition program under the Bush administration, from the horrific treatment of detainees to the agency’s 2002 plan to ask the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) not to prosecute interrogators. The heavily redacted trove of
A Danish news website has published documents backing up the allegations that in June 2013 a US plane with a connection to CIA black site programs was on call in Copenhagen ready to snatch NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as he was stranded in Moscow.
作者 RT
The story of the private aircraft, a Gulfstream V with registration number N977GA, was first reported by The Register in June 2014. The plane previously used by the American intelligence to secretly transport terror subjects to clandestine detention facilities in Europe, flew from Washington, DC over Scotland to
Resolution passed by European Parliament Thursday calls on member states to prevent whistleblower’s extradition, rendition.
The European Parliament passed a resolution Thursday urging its nations to afford NSA whistleblower Edward
A British human rights nonprofit turns up evidence that CIA planes refueled at Scottish airports, prompting Scottish police to open an investigation into Britain’s role in the U.S. post-9/11 torture program.
A small plane taxis at the airport in Szymany, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Lawyers and rights activists believe that this was the airport used to ferry terrorism suspects in and out of Poland when the CIA ran a secret prison in the eastern European country. Police in Scotland are now investigating CIA rendition programs in
Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.
Prosecutors have confirmed that police investigating the use of Scottish airports by CIA ‘rendition’ flights have asked that the US provide them with an un-redacted version of the Senate’s report on the detention and interrogation program.
作者 Reprieve
A small plane taxis at the airport in Szymany, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Lawyers and rights activists believe that this was the airport used to ferry terrorism suspects in and out of Poland when the CIA ran a secret prison in the eastern European country. Former U.S. intelligence officials have said the spy agency operated the site
In an interview at his Virginia home, torture whistleblower says CIA insiders objected to the arrest and torture of Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar.
Rendition and torture victim Maher Arar. (Photo: Huffington Post) CIA insiders objected to the arrest, rendition, and torture of Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar, but high-ranking officials ignored concerns that they were punishing an innocent man, according to former spy and whistleblower John Kiriakou in an