Daily Archives: July 17, 2009 »
CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report
On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA information pertaining to the destruction of interrogation videotapes ordered CIA to release its 2004 Inspector General
Read More »Bush, Cheney knew they were violating law
Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good faith on their lawyers’ advice because they told their lawyers what advice to give,
Read More »Freedom of Information Act to be extended
The Freedom of Information Act looks set to be extended to include four new bodies. The government has published its response to a consultation launched in October 2007 about which new organisations, if any,
Read More »Obama on slavery
President Obama slowly walked across the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, a slave outpost in Ghana where hundreds of thousands of Africans were shipped as human cargo to a life of bondage in the
Read More »EU justice ministers call for more data protection
Stockholm – The European Union must balance its attempts to gather more security information on EU citizens with the need to protect their privacy, EU justice ministers said in Stockholm on Friday. ‘The question of
Read More »Indians to get biometric ID cards
The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will lead the project. The project team will face a huge challenge in securing
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