Friday, December 11, 2009
Excessive government secrecy is an enemy of human rights and the rule of law. President Obama deserves praise for rejecting the underlying policies that caused the United States so much harm during the Bush years. But in withholding photos of detainee abuse, preventing legal challenges to torture and warrantless surveillance, and thwarting impartial hearings into [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, CIA, DEA, Detainees, DOJ, Eric Holder, FOIA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Law, National Security, Public Trust, Secrecy, Secret Prisons, Torture, Transparency
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Former DEA agent Richard Horn, with the help of his attorney, former federal prosecutor Brian Leighton, recently brought the mighty CIA to its knees.
For some 15 years, Horn waged a legal battle in federal court against a former CIA official whom Horn alleged had illegally eavesdropped on him as part of a CIA- and State [...]
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Also tagged Arthur Brown, Brian Leighton, Burma, CIA, Courts, DEA, Drug Trafficking, Franklin Huddle, George Tenet, Intelligence, John Rizzo, Myanmar, National Clandestine Service, NCS, Richard Horn, Robert Eatinger, Royce Lamberth, Wiretapping
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table.
Rather than comply with a court order to provide lawyers in the case with what the U.S. government says is classified information, the government has [...]
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Also tagged Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v Obama, Burma, CIA, Courts, DOJ, Horn v Huddle, Law, Myanmar, Richard Horn, State Department, Wiretapping
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Why is Sibel’s tale important for every American and why is it being ignored by our elected officials and the Fourth Estate? The story is important because it is about massive and systematic corruption of our elected officials and senior bureaucrats with the active connivance of the media. Worse, the corruption was carried out by [...]
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