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Cheney ‘ordered CIA to hide plan’
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say. The existence of the programme, set up after 9/11, was hidden for
Read More »Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the
Read More »CIA torture report delayed again
The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush administration. The report had been expected to be made
Read More »CIA Looks to Colleges for Future Spies
To the list of collegiate types — nerds, jocks, Greeks — add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they’ll be hard to spot. The Obama administration has proposed the creation of
Read More »Delay in Releasing CIA Report Is Sought
Justice Dept. Wants More Time to Review IG’s Findings on Detainee Treatment by Carrie Johnson The Justice Department needs a week to complete its review of a 2004 CIA inspector general’s report before releasing
Read More »CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations
Read More »Amnesty International responds to CIA’s denial of Cheney’s request for documents’ release
In response to today’s news from the Central Intelligence Agency that it was denying former Vice President Cheney’s request for the public release of two memos — on the basis that the documents are
Read More »CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes will be compromised if the agency is forced to turn over detailed documents to the American
Read More »CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates
By Jason Leopold | CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily “torture” updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged “high-level” terrorist detainee who was held at a secret “black site” prison and
Read More »CIA ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Missing
By William Fisher | At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have
Read More »CIA Kidnap Trial to Resume in April
An Italian judge says the trial of 26 U.S. agents and seven Italians accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect will resume next month, after the Constitutional Court clarifies key rulings in the case. Wednesday’s
Read More »CIA Confirms 12 of 92 Videotapes Destroyed Showed Prisoners Tortured
Heavily redacted government documents filed in a New York federal court Friday afternoon say the CIA destroyed 12 videotapes that specifically showed two detainees being tortured. The documents were filed in response to a
Read More »CIA destroyed 12 harsh interrogation tapes
Court documents show the CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92 videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed.
Read More »Panetta: No one to be punished for interrogations
Panetta: No CIA employees to be punished as a result of Senate review of harsh interrogations CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency employees who took part in harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects are not
Read More »CIA destroyed terror interrogation tapes
By Alex Spillius | The revelation that far more tapes had been destroyed than previously acknowledged came in a letter filed by US government lawyers in New York. The American Civil Liberties Union has
Read More »Revealed: Pentagon’s secret prisons, legal loopholes and CIA ‘ghost’ detainees
By Stephen C. Webster Three major human rights organizations have declared the Department of Defense was running secret prisons at Bagram and in Iraq, actively sought ways around the terms of the Geneva conventions
Read More »Report suggests CIA covered up role in missionary’s death
By Steve Gunn MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru
Read More »C.I.A. Chief Says Qaeda Is Extending Its Reach
WASHINGTON — Even as Al Qaeda strengthens its hub in the Pakistani mountains, its leaders are building closer ties to regional militant groups in order to launch attacks in Africa and Europe and on
Read More »CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations
Attorney General to investigate abuse claims By Robert Verkaik 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
Read More »CIA Can Hide Torture Allegations, Court Rules
By Ryan Singel The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the
Read More »Amnesty accuses Spain of allowing CIA flights to Guantanamo
Madrid – The human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused the Spanish government of not having tried to prevent US flights transporting terrorist suspects to illegal detention centres across Spanish airspace. At
Read More »Ex-CIA Official Pleads Guilty in Corruption Case
By Derek Kravitz | The story of the CIA officer, his mistress and his wealthy businessman friend appears to have come to an end, with the intelligence agency’s former executive director likely facing about
Read More »Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan
By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after
Read More »CIA memos reveal doubts over ‘key’ Lockerbie witness
By Guy Smith | A Libyan “double agent” who was central to the CIA’s investigation into the Lockerbie bombing exaggerated his importance in Tripoli’s intelligence apparatus and gave little information of value, yet is
Read More »A UK Window into CIA Abuses
Human Rights Watch | This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents
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