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Court Grants Impunity To Covert Operations

http://www.dailykos.com/…
by ohwilleke
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 09:32:12 PM PST
Promoted from the diaries, with minor editing ~ smintheus
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California held yesterday in the case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. that the state secrets doctrine bars all suits against anyone involving “allegations of covert U.S. military or [...]

“State Secret” Privilege Used to Block Lawsuit on Behalf of Torture Victims

By Maya Harris, ACLU Northern California
Posted on February 10, 2008, Printed on February 11, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/76543/
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen and legal resident of the United Kingdom, was abducted in 2002 by masked men and flown, blindfolded, from Pakistan to Morocco. For 18 months, Mohamed was regularly beaten into unconsciousness by his interrogators. After a scalpel [...]

Secret CIA Flights to Greenland Reported

http://hosted.ap.org/…
By GABRIEL GABIRO
Associated Press Writer
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will investigate claims that the CIA secretly used an airport on the Nordic country’s remote Arctic territory of Greenland to transport prisoners in the U.S. war on terror, the prime minister said Thursday.