Archive for the 'CIA' Category

U.S. Government Convicts Top Official of Authorizing Torture

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Via Glenn Greenwald:

[T]he Bush administration has righteously decided that torture is such a grotesque and intolerable crime that political leaders who order it simply must be punished in American courts to the fullest extent of the law . . . . if they’re from Liberia.

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. prosecutors want [...]

CIA and Peru lied about missionary plane shot down in 2001

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

There was a time when the CIA was a law unto itself and carried out all kinds of illegal activities. If you thought those days were gone, they apparently returned during the Bush presidency.
You may recall the incident in 2001 when a private plane carrying Baptist missionaries was shot down in Peru killing a [...]

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