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Central Intelligence Agency

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Los Angeles Times

... the detainees were being interrogated and tortured, and that they were sometimes given psychotropic drugs. Some, he believed, had died in custody... the detainees were not Taliban fighters or associates of Osama bin Laden. "By the time we go

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London Times

The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence

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London Times

The US is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects. Building was under way at Ain Aouda, above a wooded gorge south of Rabat’s diplomatic district. Run by the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substant

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New York Times

"It is my aim and it is my hope that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less

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National Journal

Vice President Dick Cheney directed his aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby to use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq war effort, the National Journal reported. This was the outing of CIA agent Valerie P

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Associated Press

The U.S. government wants an Iraqi court to prosecute an American citizen who is being held in Iraq on suspicion that he is a senior operative of al-Zarqawi. Once served in the Minnesota National Guard, held since late 2004 as an enemy combatant. No

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New York Times

Lawyers for a 44-year-old naturalized American citizen have been pressing a federal district judge to intervene in their client's case, saying that he had been arrested and held in Iraq for more than a year without being charged or given access t

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New York Times

Guards have begun strapping recalcitrant detainees into "restraint chairs," sometimes for hours a day, to feed them through tubes and prevent them from deliberately vomiting afterward. Detainees who refuse to eat have also been placed in is

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Washington Post

Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame

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Washington Post

The perjury trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff won't begin until January 2007, after the midterm congressional elections, in timing that Democrats consider favorable to Republicans. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walto

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by John Byrne and Ron Brynaert (Raw Story)

A series of striking revelations have emerged after the release of dozens of pages of court files in the CIA leak investigation. The outed agent’s husband will not testify at a trial, and that a third Time reporter has been fingered as having informa

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National Journal

Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the Africa

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Associated Press

"The damage has been very severe to our capabilities to carry out our mission," CIA Director Porter Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing disclosures about a variety of CIA programs that he suggested may have been compromised.

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Los Angeles Times

Despite protests from other countries, the United States is expanding a top-secret effort to kill suspected terrorists with drone-fired missiles as it pursues an increasingly decentralized Al Qaeda, U.S. officials say.

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Financial Times

The head of a high-profile probe of CIA prisons in Europe accused the US administration of “gangster-style methods” but failed to produce hard evidence that European governments [who didn't cooperate with probe] had hosted any such facilities.

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Reuters

US District Judge Jed Rakoff ordered in favor of the Associated Press, which sued the Defense Department in April, 2005, seeking the names of detainees and transcripts of military hearings held to determine whether they were properly classified as en

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US News and World Report

Since 2003, at least 3 unclassified CSI reports--all critical of the agency--have been withheld from the CIA's website. During that same time, the agency has placed online 3 other CSI reports, all of those relatively positive or neutral.

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Chicago Tribune

The CIA warned its operatives to stay out of Italy after learning that Italian prosecutors were preparing to seek arrest warrants in the agency's 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim preacher, according to an e-mail message recovered from the comp

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Reuters

The CIA has increased its use of pilotless drone aircraft to target al-Qaeda suspects along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border despite questions about the tactic's effectiveness. Drones armed with Hellfire missiles and controlled by the CIA have

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New Statesman (link to documents)

The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation centres. A hidden

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The News International

The Scottish National Party report lists planes, the dates on which they landed and 10 companies that have allegedly operated on behalf of the CIA. So-called extraordinary rendition flights are allegations that the CIA flew terror suspects through Eu

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News International

An Egyptian rights group called on the US to investigate the case of a detainee who had a leg amputated in the US military base of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Adel Fattouh Gazar’s left leg was amputated because of extensive injuries combined with a reluc

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