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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment

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Rice refuses to deny CIA transported suspects to countries using torture

http://rawstory.com…
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Saturday December 6, 2008
New investigation opened into Spanish administration for allowing flights to continue; Italy suspends rendition trial
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.
A new Danish government [...]

Link Love [25 November 2008]

1. GOP congressman says Congress must investigate the Bush administration…
There should be a thorough investigation of the ways in which the current Administration may have disregarded the Constitution

2. Mormon church under investigation for possible election fraud …
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) confirmed Monday that it will investigate allegations that the LDS Church failed [...]

CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations

http://www.independent.co.uk…
Attorney General to investigate abuse claims
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Friday, 31 October 2008
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured, after being arrested and questioned by American forces [...]

Update on CIA drug plane owned by “Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc”

http://www.boingboing.net…
h/t: blacklistednews.com
Here’s an update on the strange story of the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan last year. The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that European Parliament was investigating the circumstances surrounding the plane, which had previously been used by the CIA for “extraordinary rendition” flights.

Mexico drug plane used for US ‘rendition’ flights: report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/…
Thu Sep 4, 4:40 PM ET
A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

U.S. Planes Make Secret Landings In Kenya

http://www.roguegovernment.com/…
08-12-2008
Press TV
US military planes have been making secretive landings in Kenya in what is feared to be an effort to move terror suspects.
The night landings by US military planes at Nairobi’s Wilson Airport, carrying Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives, have raised suspicion among both local security agents and aviation authorities.

Source: British Territory Used for US Terrorism Interrogation

http://www.time.com/…
By Adam Zagorin
Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terrorism suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to take potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to [...]

U.S. assures UK over secret flights, doubts persist

reuters.com
Thu Jul 3, 2008 12:43pm EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has received new U.S. assurances that the CIA did not secretly smuggle terrorist suspects through its territory, but critics said on Thursday the government had failed to ask Washington the right questions.

And War Crimes for All…

http://www.atlargely.com/…
Larisa Alexandrovna
Hey folks, I am on deadline - sorry to be MIA - but just wanted to post this.
Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers
‘The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to [...]

Arar: DHS to Reopen Inquiry Into Suspect’s Expulsion to Syria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 6, 2008; A10
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office has reopened its investigation of the government’s treatment of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who, after being falsely named as a terrorist, was seized in September 2002 and sent to Syria, where he was tortured.