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The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration's practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/us/politics/25rendition.html



CIA interrogator threatened to kill children

Another agent allegedly told a second suspect the man's mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him. The agent has denied the allegation.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8219307.stm



CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees

The documents released by the CIA's inspector general said interrogators went too far - even beyond what was authorized under Justice Department legal memos that have since been withdrawn and discredited.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cia_interrogations



CIA Outsourced for Killers

Following reports the CIA hired private spies to be assassins, former U.S. intelligence officials are defending the use of contractors, estimating one out of three intelligence workers is on contract.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2009/08/137_50593.html



Who Needs Trials? Kill Terror Suspects!

By Nat Hentoff

Is it possible that the CIA would actually commit alleged war crimes - and the U.S. government would not hold the CIA and itself accountable in any way? Is water wet?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23995.htm


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By Chris Hedges

Between 40 and 62 percent of the American people, including 80 percent of registered Democrats, want universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans. The ability of the corporations to discredit and silence voices that represent at least half of the population is another sad testament to the power of our corporate state.

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By Peter Chamberlin

The wise men sitting safely on the Potomac think that real "men" and real "patriots" can just get over the trauma that they have witnessed or inflicted upon others, through a contrived simplistic form of auto-hypnosis.

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By Cindy Sheehan

I am cutting my writing-staycation short to head to Martha's Vineyard because I think the new titular head of the empire needs to know that his policies are devastating people as much as the same policies did when Bush was president.

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Greg Miller, The Los Angeles Times: "The CIA staged a mock execution and brandished weapons, including a gun and a power drill, during interrogation sessions with detainees, according to a long-secret internal CIA report expected to be released Monday. The episodes are part of a catalog of alleged abuses - a 2004 report by the CIA's inspector general - that has prompted Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to consider appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate cases in which the CIA strayed beyond its authorities."

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Civil Liberties Groups Prepare Delicate Message on CIA Probe

Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "Like many in the intelligence community, Tyler Drumheller is waiting to see if his former colleagues will be left holding the bag for the Bush administration. As early as Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate acts of torture performed by the CIA as part of the Bush administration's so-called 'enhanced interrogation' program."

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The Whitewash Begins: CIA Special Prosecutor Appointed
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/24-8

ACLU: Justice Department Office Says Detainee Abuse Cases Should Be Re-Opened
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/24-1

Constitution Project: Interrogation Reports Further Demonstrate the Need for Comprehensive Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/24-6

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Report: CIA used power drills, guns, threats against children

ABC News

08/24/09

CIA officers used power drills, mock executions and threats against children in often futile attempts to break high-value al Qaeda targets, according to portions of a 2004 report by the CIA inspector general that was made public today. ‘We now have a document that the world can read that shows in excruciating and disgusting detail that the United States violated its own beliefs and turned to the dark side when it didn’t have to,’ said Richard Clarke, a former national security official and now an ABC News consultant...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Leila Fadel, McClatchy Newspapers: "As Washington's policymakers debate health care bills and promise economic recovery, Cali tries to stay afloat, as do thousands of others in the District of Columbia and millions across the country. About $1.5 billion from the $787 billion stimulus package was set aside to go toward preventing homelessness, but most of the money hasn't been distributed yet, advocates for the homeless say."

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