"THE CON IS ON!" - American secret reliable sources

A Report on how, for years, American Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the Navy, Special Forces Command, the Air Force, and the Senate Intelligence Committee relied on a self proclaimed "scientist" to determine when to increase the terror threat level and how the truth about the false information is still classified.


The Article by Aran Roston HERE

“The Man Who Conned the Pentagon”

DISAPPEARING PEOPLE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES - America's Policy of Secret Prisons within USA

"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear."

Words spoken by James Pendergraph, executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination in August 2008.

Secret sites across the United States are being used to "disappear" people, as reported by The Nation Magazine.

The Nation magazine is also reporting American Immigration and Customs agents regularly impersonate civilians and rely on other illegal tricks in order to arrest longtime US residents who have no criminal history. ICE agents have posed as Occupational Safety and Health inspectors, insurance agents and even religious workers.

The full article at The Nation Magazine HERE:

America's Secret ICE Castles - December 16, 2009
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens

Call for Inquest into Bogus UK Investigation Into David Kelly's "Suicide"

Published December 12, 2009 - INVICTUS BLOG (here)

According to an article in the Daily Mail, six UK doctors will release a report sharply criticizing the Hutton Inquiry investigation into the supposed suicide of British scientist and weapons expert David Kelly in 2003.

Kelly was reportedly believed to be behind a leak to "the source of a [BBC] story that Tony Blair's government 'sexed-up' its dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction to justify invading Iraq." According to the Daily Mail, Kelly predicted he might be killed. Yet the coroner's investigation into his death was halted by the British government, which declared an inquiry by cronies of British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be sufficient. After years of controversy, the protesting UK doctors are not only preparing release of a dissenting report, they are asking the British High Court to reopen the inquest into Kelly's death. The law firm of Leigh Day and Co. are assisting them.

From the Daily Mail article:

The six [doctors] are Michael Powers, a QC and former coroner; trauma surgeon David Halpin; Andrew Rouse, an epidemiologist who established that deaths from cutting the ulnar artery – as claimed in Dr Kelly's case – are extremely rare; Martin Birnstingl, another surgeon; plus Stephen Frost and Chris Burns-Cox.

Lord Hutton concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by severing an ulnar artery in his left wrist after taking an overdose of prescription painkillers but he skated over the controversies about the causes of death....

Dr Kelly's death certificate states that he died of a haemorrhage, but the results of a post mortem examination have never been made public....

We have concentrated on the finding on the death certificate that the primary cause of death was a haemorrage. We are spelling out why he could not have died from a cut to the small ulnar artery.'

One of the doctors, who preferred not to be named, added: 'When the Romans committed suicide they would slit all four arteries in a warm bath, which keeps the blood flowing. The arteries would close up in the open air and you would not lose that much blood.'

A book on the unanswered questions surrounding the case by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker concluded that Dr Kelly may have been murdered by Iraqi exiles – but the finger has also been pointed at MI5 and the CIA.

H/T to The Anomaly at Daily Kos, whose diary on the UK proposed investigation is worth reading in full.

And I know, I've written a number of stories lately about suspicious suicides affecting key figures in the U.S. Global War on Terror. But I didn't invent the stories, and it certainly may have a lot more to do with U.S. and UK SOP in these affairs than it does with any morbidity on my part. Only one way to know for sure: let's open the investigations and expose truth to the light of day.

Reading: Call for Inquest into Bogus UK Investigation Into David Kelly's "Suicide"

USA 's Democracy - ALIGNING WITH THE DEVIL?

FBI'S SECRET MURDER PROGRAM IN THE 70's

UK Judges and Special Advocates refuse to back down regarding release of information on torture of innocent man Binyan Mohamed

Last Friday Lord Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Lloyd Jones , issued a sixth judgment on the case (PDF), declaring that the treatment of Mohamed “could never properly be described as ‘a secret’ or an ‘intelligence secret’ or ‘a summary of classified intelligence,’” .

They also restored two passages from their fifth judgment, which were removed at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Full text and details about the case HERE - "UK Judges Comapre Binyam Mohamed's Torture to that of Abu Zubaydah" - by Andy Worthington - November 26, 2009

Does American Congress matter for USA Military and Blackwater ("Xe Services")’s Assassins?

ASSASSINS FOR HIRE - USA MILITARY STRATEGIES:

"Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan"
Article published on November 23, 2009 - The Nation - HERE

Extracts:

"They make much more money being the smarts of these operations, planning hits in various countries and basing it off their experience in Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia," said the military intelligence source. "They were there for all of these things, they know what the hell they're talking about. And JSOC has unfortunately lost the institutional capability to plan within, so they hire back people that used to work for them and had already planned and executed these [types of] operations. They hired back people that jumped over to Blackwater SELECT and then pay them exorbitant amounts of money to plan future operations. It's a ridiculous revolving door."

"Colonel Wilkerson said that he is concerned that with General McChrystal's elevation as the military commander of the Afghan war--which is increasingly seeping into Pakistan--there is a concomitant rise in JSOC's power and influence within the military structure. "I don't see how you can escape that; it's just a matter of the way the authority flows and the power flows, and it's inevitable, I think," Wilkerson told The Nation. He added, "I'm alarmed when I see execute orders and combat orders that go out saying that the supporting force is Central Command and the supported force is Special Operations Command," under which JSOC operates. "That's backward. But that's essentially what we have today."

"There's no real oversight. It's not really on people's radar screen."

"Contractors and especially JSOC personnel working under a classified mandate are not [overseen by Congress], so they just don't care. If there's one person they're going after and there's thirty-four people in the building, thirty-five people are going to die. That's the mentality."

"According to federal lobbying records, Kestral recently hired former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega, who served in that post from 2003 to 2005, to lobby the US government, including the State Department, USAID and Congress, on foreign affairs issues "regarding [Kestral's] capabilities to carry out activities of interest to the United States." Noriega was hired through his firm, Vision Americas, which he runs with Christina Rocca, a former CIA operations official who served as assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs from 2001 to 2006 and was deeply involved in shaping US policy toward Pakistan. In October 2009, Kestral paid Vision Americas $15,000 and paid a Vision Americas-affiliated firm, Firecreek Ltd., an equal amount to lobby on defense and foreign policy issues."

INTERVIEW :

Deniable Torture Handheld Gadgets: One of them - "PAIN RAY DEVELOPED BY ISRAELI ACADEMICS

"Israeli ‘portable pain ray’ raises fears of non-lethal weapons proliferation"

"Torture at the touch of a button"
By Daniel Tencer
The Raw Story - November 13, 2009 - HERE

Israeli researchers have developed a portable device that causes excruciating sensations of burning and can be built for just $250,000, raising fears that even the world’s poorest, most oppressive governments will now be able to use advanced non-lethal weapons on their civilian populations.

The Man-Portable Active Denial System, developed by researchers at the College of Judea and Samaria, can beam a microwave ray that causes skin surface to heat up to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the nerve cells in the skin to think they’re on fire.

Full article here

Documentary: "AMERICAN FAUST: From Condi to Neo-Condi"

American Faust - A documentary that covers the career of American Condoleezza Rice - from the weapons of mass destruction lies to the torture program, she regrets nothing....

Worldwide Release December 2nd, 2009

DVD and download at:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvxjn4_american-faust_news

The trailer of "AMERICAN FAUST: From Condi to Neo-condi"

CIA - experts in torture and hiding crimes - Secret 'Torture' Prison Discovered - ABC News

OUTSIDE THE LAW : Stories From Guantanamo - An Evening with Andy Worthington , author of "The Guantanamo File"

More at:

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk

An Evening with Andy Worthington - "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo" from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

TORTURE MADE IN THE United States of America

Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Rendition Case | AfterDowningStreet.org

More on the first extraordinary rendition conviction:

Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Rendition Case

AfterDowningStreet.org

CIA "VIGILANTS" Convicted in Italy - Extraordinary Rendition First Conviction

At ABC News:
Convicted CIA Spy says: "We broke the Law"

By MATTHEW COLE, AVNI PATEL, and BRIAN ROSS
Nov. 4, 2009

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-convicted-cia-spy-broke-law/story?id=8995107


And " The Nuremberg Defense: We were following orders"

CIA INTELLIGENCE: Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

Published on November 4, 2009 - The Raw Story

"I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."

Full text at: http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/

Watch UK British Diplomat - October 21, 2009:

Former President goes on trial for crimes against humanity:illegal arrests, torture, and killings during the "First War on Terror" in Argentina

Published on the "JURIST Legal News and Research"

"Former Argentina president goes on trial for 'Dirty War' rights abuses"

Former Argentine president and general Reynaldo Bignone went on trial (in spanish - Centro de Información Judicial) Monday for crimes against humanity allegedly perpetrated during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The allegations, which include illegal arrest, torture, and killing of dissidents, stem from the 56 confirmed cases of torture at the Campo de Mayo military base outside Buenos Aires. An Argentinian judge ordered Bignone's arrest and ruled that he would face criminal charges [JURIST reports] in March 2007. Bignone, 81, is being tried along with five other Argentine generals, including Santiago Omar Riveros, who was convicted of human rights abuses [JURIST report] in August and sentenced to life in prison for killing 15-year-old Floreal Avellaneda and detaining his mother during the dictatorship. Witness testimony is set to begin November 10, and the trial is expected to last until March 2010.

Full text HERE

The "invisivel threats" : The Language of rapists and their accomplices on the case of Military Mother raped in Iraq in 2008

Military Mom Says She Was Brutally Raped in Iraq

Dawn Leamon told her story on Capitol Hill today.

By MADDY SAUER - 9 April 2008, 15:07

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4618275&page=1

 

Her description of "theater scenes " by contractors to silently intimidate her is presented in the Senate Hearing of April 9, 2008. 

Intimidation scenes were aired on CBC News, April 2008. KBR contracts threaten her just with "visual advises"

 Dawn Leamon, who has two sons on active duty in Iraq.

 

She told her horrific story to members of the American Congress on April 9, 2008 at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: 

Leamon told the Committee that she was raped in early 2008 by a U.S. soldier and a KBR(U.S. contractor Kellogg Brown Root) colleague while she was working in Iraq. 

 

Leamon says KBR then assigned full-time security guards to her which gave her no privacy to talk about the incident, and her movements around camp were restricted, yet her attackers' movements were unrestricted. She also talked about the harassment she was subjected to and the photo of one of the "scenarios" of the "harassment language" was presnted at the hearing. The video can be seen at ABC NEWS HERE: 

In Her Own Words: Raped in Iraq

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/another-iraq-contractor-worker-claims-rape/

Rogue Secret Services : A VAST NETWORK OF INFORMERS , HARASSERS , MURDERERS...

THE STASI

"The need to know everything about the lives of others" - The History of Stasi-the notorious and bygone East Germany intelligence agency:

Ministry for State Security (Mfs) also known known as "Stasi" - the East German Intelligence Agency Strategies:

Torture, Harassment, assassinations, persecution of dissent, illegal surveillance, mobbing and on:


As the enforcement arm of the German Democratic Republic's Communist Party, the Stasi at its height in 1989 employed 91,000 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army, along with 173,081 unofficial informants and 1,553 informants in West Germany. In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.
A bureaucracy almost three times the size of Hitler's Gestapo was spying on a population a quarter that of Nazi Germany. 10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.

MfS has been accused of a number of assassinations against political dissidents and other people both inside and outside the country. Examples include the East German football player Lutz Eigendorf and the Swedish journalist Cats Falck.

The Stasi had formal categorizations of each type of informant, and had official guidelines on how to extract information from, and control, those who they came into contact with. The roles of informants ranged from those already in some way involved in state security (such as the police and the armed services) to those in the oppositionalist movements (such as dissidents in the arts and the Protestant Church). Information gathered about the latter groups was frequently used to divide or discredit members.Informants were made to feel important, given material or social incentives, and were imbued with a sense of adventure, and only around 7.7%, according to official figures, were coerced into cooperating. A significant proportion of those informing were members of the SED; to employ some form of blackmail, however, was not uncommon.(pp. 242-243 - The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker,Fulbrook, Mary (2005), London: Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300144246)

OPERATIONS:
Full-time officers were posted to all major industrial plants (the extensiveness of any surveillance largely depended on how valuable a product was to the economy)and one tenant in every apartment building was designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the Volkspolizei (Vopo). Spies reported every relative or friend that stayed the night at another's apartment. Tiny holes were bored in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents filmed citizens with special video cameras. Similarly, schools, universities, and hospitals were extensively infiltrated.After the mid-1950s, Stasi executions were carried out in strict secrecy, and usually were accomplished with a guillotine and, in later years, by a single pistol shot to the neck. In most instances, the relatives of the executed were not informed of either the sentence or the execution.

More :
Stasi:The untold story of the East German secret police - Koehler, John O. (2000), , Westview Press, ISBN 0813337445



MOVIES:
The Lives of Others - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-winning German film Das Leben der Anderen (aka as The Lives of Others) involves the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the MfS - Stasi



ARTICLES:
Piecing together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi

Making a killing: War Profiteers join at the "International Peace Operations Association"

Aired October 27, 2009

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BLACKWATER: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenaries - By Jeremy Scahill



and at:Not Blackwater but Xe
http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2009/02/not-blackwater-but-xe-as-in-xena-warrior-princess.html

“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” - documentary film launched in London, UK

TRAILER AVAILABLE HERE

directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington , and inspired by Andy’s book, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, it was launched on October 21, 2009 in London, UK.(photos from the launch of "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo)

The film tells the story of Guantánamo (and includes sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular focus on how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international laws, how prisoners were rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening (and often for bounty payments), and why some of these men may have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan for reasons unconnected with militancy or terrorism (as missionaries or humanitarian aid workers, for example).

The film is based around interviews with former prisoners (Moazzam Begg and, in his first major interview, Omar Deghayes, who was released in December 2007), lawyers for the prisoners (Clive Stafford Smith in the UK and Tom Wilner in the US), and journalist and author Andy Worthington, and also includes appearances from Guantánamo’s former Muslim chaplain James Yee, Shakeel Begg, a London-based Imam, and the British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce.

Focusing on the stories of three particular prisoners — Shaker Aamer (who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (who was released in February 2009) and Omar Deghayes — “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” provides a powerful rebuke to those who believe that Guantánamo holds “the worst of the worst” and that the Bush administration was justified in responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by holding men neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects with habeas corpus rights, but as “illegal enemy combatants” with no rights whatsoever.

For further information, interviews, or to inquire about broadcasting, distributing or showing “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” please contact Andy Worthington(andy@andyworthington.co.uk) or Polly Nash(p.nash@lcc.arts.ac.uk).

“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a Spectacle Production (74 minutes, 2009).

Andy Worthington is a journalist, and the author of three books, including The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (Pluto Press). Visit his website here.

Polly Nash is a lecturer at the London College Of Communication (LCC), part of the University of the Arts, London, and has worked in film and TV for 20 years. Core funding for the film was provided by LCC.

Review at The Osterley Times :

"The film was intense and powerful, mostly because it did not attempt in any way to emotionalise the story it was laying out before us. [Andy] Worthington, Clive Stafford Smith and others simply told the story of how the US abandoned habeas corpus and found itself in a kind of war with its own legal system, whilst [Moazzam] Begg and [Omar] Deghayes told the tale of what it was like to be on the receiving end of this historic aberration of justice."

Comments:
"The film was brilliantly powerful — both understated and shocking. All night I have had the images in my head and thoughts of these men who, even when released, can’t contact their families. I hate to admit I had no idea about extraordinary rendition — you have lifted the lid on a world that far too many people, like myself, find too easy to avoid."

"I have just returned from a rather extraordinary evening. I attended the film premiere of Andy Worthington and Polly Nash’s film “Outside the Law” — a feature length documentary about Guantánamo. I urge you all to see it. Please do and then when you have seen it pass it on to your friends and family. I have not seen anything at all that compares to understanding the magnitude of what has been happening in Guantánamo and Bagram. After seeing this film and then staying for the Q&A, which featured the film makers, as well as former detainees Omar Deghayes and Moazzam Begg, I was moved, inspired and angered beyond any other event I have been to. People left the venue with changed opinions, far better informed and shocked. Once again please do try and get to a screening."

For more information : Andy Worthington Website at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/

Kerry Pither's Book "DARK DAYS" WINS 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction

Jurists — authors Deborah Gorham, David Mitchell and Lawrence Scanlan — about Dark Days:

“Dark Days is a compelling and powerful book about an important subject — racism in Canada and the clandestine activities of the RCMP and CSIS. The book tells the story of four Muslim Canadians — Maher Arar, Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin — all “terror suspects” tortured in Middle Eastern prisons before being released without charge. Writing with passion and empathy yet admirable restraint, Kerry Pither leaves the reader with a vivid, detailed and disturbing picture of what we do in the name of security.”

More about the author and the book at:

http://kerrypither.com/2009/10/dark-days-wins-city-of-ottawa-book-award/

UK: High court orders publication of US report, saying British foreign secretary's actions were harmful to the rule of law

UK Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ordered the release of a seven-paragraph summary of what the CIA told British officials about Binyam:

"The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security is inimical to the rule of law".
"Championing the rule of law, not subordinating it, is the cornerstone of democracy." Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled.

The case is that of Binyam Mohamed, torturers slashed his chest and genitals with a scalpel and told Binyam: "We are going to change your brain!"

The CIA secretly flew Mohamed to Morocco, Afghanistan and then Guantánamo Bay, the court has heard. The judges criticised MI5 and MI6 for the belated disclosure of documents that revealed an MI5 officer was in Morocco when Mohamed was held there in a secret jail

David Rose of the British paper The Mail reported the details of Binyam Mohamed's torture in an article on March 8, 2009 , entitled "How MI5 colluded in my torture: Binyam Mohamed claims British agents fed Moroccan torturers their questions" - HERE

The judgment by the two seniorUK judges roundly dismissing David Miliband, the British foreign secretary's claims that" disclosing evidence would harm national security and threaten the UK's vital intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US".

The full article published on the Guardian on October 16, 2009 can be read HERE:
Binyam Mohamed: Judges overrule attempt to suppress torture evidence

More on the case HERE:"What the British governemt knew about the torture of Binyam Mohamed"

CIA Lies: a "standard tecnique" - Former CIA Analysts Speak Out

CIA Influence on the Mass Media: How Disinformation Campaigns Work

TORTURE ON TRIAL - 2009

OUT OF CONTROL: Torture, Illegal Arms Pipeline, Drugs...and Impunity

Part I THE FIRST WAR ON TERROR " : OPERATION CONDOR Operation Condor was a covert Latin American military network created during the Cold War to facilitate the seizure and murder of political opponents across state borders in Central and South America. It involved kidnappings, torture, murder. As the revelations emerge that the United States of America is engaged in torture , murders, kidnappings and suspected terrorists captured by CIA and U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have been deliberately hidden from the Red Cross, severely tortured and abused to death, the History of the United States involvement in the "dirty wars" in Central and South America is a call to consider the consequences of clandestine operations in the name of democracy. The complicity of the American government with drug traffickers to protect American interests of national security or covert operations is also connected to Operation Condor and the "War on Drugs" . Some references: Cocaine Politics:Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall Guns, Drugs, and the CIA by Leslie Cockburn (full transcript HERE) Condor: The First War on Terror 

"TORTURE IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY"

PROUDLY MADE IN USA: TORTURE , MURDERS, DICTATORSHIPS AND ON. ..

They Lie to the World with Impunity while embracing TORTURE, WARS AND MORE : "No Day Light, No Public Oversigh, No Press Scrutiny"

"The irresistible unilateral power of Hiding the truth"

"as somebody who has fight a great deal of his life in a Court room, I feel a great deal of intense personal frustration when I know facts that would rebut a case that an administration is making and they have declassified their side of the argument and kept my side classified and I have to keep my peace eventhough the public is being mislead..."
American Senator Sheldon Whitehouse - October 13, 2009

A video with American Senator Sheldon Whitehouse where he talks about "misleading the public about what the actual facts really are" at the American Senate Intelligence Committee Nomination Hearing for David Gompert as principal deputy director of american national intelligence, on October 13, 2009.

The video can be watched C-SPAN.org at :
http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/10/13/HP/A/24220/Senate+Select+Intelligence+Cmte+Nomination+Hearing+for+David+Gompert.aspx

Or to redirect click HERE

Visit Right to Know Website at:

http://www.righttoknow.ca/en/Content/default.asp

About Right to Know: http://www.righttoknow.ca/en/Content/about_right_to_know.asp

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE "TORTURE FRIENDLY" NATION

Their Own Private Guantánamo

by Chisun Lee, ProPublica - July 22, 2009
This story was published as an op-ed in the New York Times and in "ProPublica"


The 10 men pictured have all gone before trial judges in Washington, D.C., to obtain their freedom. Each one represents a case study for the Obama administration as it struggles to craft a legal framework for detaining suspected terrorists.

As the Obama administration and Congress try to forge a legal framework for detaining suspected terrorists, they might want to take a close look at what's happening at the federal district courthouse just a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from both the White House and the Capitol.

Trial judges there have quietly decided 31 of some 200 cases brought by Guantánamo inmates seeking freedom. Dossier by dossier, the jurists have answered the core questions that policy experts have been addressing in theory: When can the president place someone in preventive detention, and how solid does the evidence need to be?

President Obama, like George W. Bush before him, has claimed the power to detain not only Qaeda and Taliban members, but also those who "support" them. Last year the Supreme Court ruled (PDF) that the courts can scrutinize these detention decisions and overturn them if they are invalid. But the court didn't say exactly what a valid detention looks like, and Congress hasn't stepped in to make it clear.

Thus the federal judges in Washington have had to develop their own guidelines — functioning, in essence, as the country’s national security court.

A close examination of the decisions shows that some of the fears about sending terrorism cases to civilian courts have not been realized. The judges haven't been particularly hard on the government, holding it to a low standard of proof: If more than half the evidence tips in the government's favor, then the detainee stays put — a far lower bar than "beyond a reasonable doubt." The judges have also admitted hearsay evidence, and they've sealed courtrooms to protect government secrecy.

Yet despite these allowances, the government has not fared well. Twenty-six detainees have won their lawsuits, known as habeas petitions, while five have lost. So far, the Obama administration has filed just one appeal.

These initial judgments may not be typical, because they involved relatively low-level suspects. But they offer the first tangible indication of what members of the third branch of government believe it takes to make preventive detention legal.

While the federal trial judges are working largely without guidance, the Supreme Court did offer some clues in its decision on a 2004 challenge by Yaser Hamdi, an American accused by the Bush administration of fighting the United States in Afghanistan. The justices said the situation in which he was captured was enough like a classic battlefield that detention without charge was justified until the end of hostilities, as is typical in wartime.

But the fight against terrorism won't have a "clear terminal point," as President Obama said recently, and many of the detainees weren't captured on an obvious battlefield. The president says he can detain not only anyone who contributed to the 9/11 attacks, but also people "who were part of, or substantially supported, Taliban or Al Qaeda forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States." The habeas suits have opened this claim to dispute. Some judges have pushed back at President Obama's assertion of power, particularly when assessing the concept of "supporting" the enemy.

In the case of Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani, a Yemeni being held at Guantánamo Bay, Judge Richard Leon agreed with the government that simply cooking meals for the Taliban was "more than sufficient 'support'" of the enemy to justify his detention. Yet Judge Gladys Kessler ordered another Yemeni, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed , freed despite the government's claim that he'd stayed at a suspect guesthouse and "traveled ... in the company of terrorist fighters fleeing the battlefield."

Another judge, Reggie Walton, who is handling the challenges of more than a dozen men, defined "substantial support" as membership in "the 'armed forces' of an enemy organization." Judge John Bates scrapped the "substantial support" concept altogether, which he said comes from the world of criminal law.

Perhaps the sharpest curb on presidential authority came from Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who ruled in March that even if a Taliban fighter named Yasin Muhammed Basardh had deserved detention when captured, he now deserved freedom because he had informed on other detainees and "any ties with the enemy have been severed."

The judges have been more accommodating of the government on technical matters, including the protection of national security secrets. All have routinely concealed important facts — sometimes even the very basis for deciding to keep someone locked up — despite the principle that American courts should be open.

That's what happened in the case of Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi, a Yemeni whose lawyer insisted he had traveled to Afghanistan to fight in its civil war, not against the United States, and was "easy prey for locals who were eager to hand over anyone they could find in return for American rewards." Judge Leon rejected the argument, saying there was "more than ample evidence" of Mr. Alwi's affiliation with America's enemies, but that evidence isn't revealed in the unclassified version of the judge's decision released to the public.

In the case of six Algerian men arrested in Bosnia, Judge Leon ruled in favor of five because the evidence that they had planned to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against the United States was unreliable. But the judge decided against the sixth man because of other "credible and reliable" evidence that he kept secret.

The judges have also overlooked technical imperfections in the government's evidence, admitting anonymous and other unverifiable information. One government lawyer explained that military and intelligence officers aren't accustomed to following the "finer points" of evidence rules, and the court doesn't appear to expect them to be: in no case has a judge decided against the government merely because its evidence lacked proper form, as far as the publicly available records show.

The judges were more demanding when it came to interpreting the substance of the government's evidence. In the case of Mr. Ahmed, Judge Kessler agreed to consider hearsay "because of the exigencies of the circumstances." But she eventually ruled that he should be released because the accuracy of the evidence was "hotly contested for a host of different reasons ranging from the fact that it contains second- and third-hand hearsay to allegations that it was obtained by torture to the fact that no statement purports to be a verbatim account of what was said."

The trial judges have also rejected much of the intelligence community's "mosaic theory," which calls for interpreting minor facts to suggest a greater threat. Judge Kessler, for example, refused to infer that Mr. Ahmed was an enemy fighter simply based on a "web of statements" that he had associated with enemy fighters.

She acknowledged that the mosaic approach "is a common and well-established mode of analysis in the intelligence community," but that the legal system required more specific evidence. Likewise, in January Judge Leon ordered the release of Mohammed El Gharani, a citizen of Chad, after dismissing the main evidence against him: contradictory statements from two detainees whose credibility the government itself had "directly called into question."

In the absence of guidelines from Congress and the president for evaluating preventive detention cases, these judges have succeeded in coming up with their own, individual approaches. Yet whenever ground rules seem ad hoc, people worry about fairness — is the man in the next courtroom getting a better shake? One step toward assuring the public that justice will be uniform is to establish clear standards.

At the top of the list, the government could clearly state what makes a person subject to indefinite detention by the president. Is "supporting" the enemy enough? If so, what exactly is "support?" And, once a judge has concluded that someone has been unjustifiably detained, what is the president required to do?

Seventeen of the 26 detainees who've been cleared for release by judges remain in custody. President Obama has given mixed signals on how he views the issue. He has resisted a judge's order to release immediately 13 Chinese Uighurs, saying that the courts can't override the president's discretion to decide when detainees will be freed. Yet that position contrasts sharply with his message in a recent televised speech , when he said he accepted judges' rulings that certain prisoners should be released. "The courts have spoken," Mr. Obama said. "We must abide by these rulings."

But as these cases show, neither the guidelines for deciding the cases nor the consequences of the decisions are quite so clear.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE

COMPLICITY

Abousfian Abdelrazik SPEAKS - OTTAWA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009

TWO EVENTS:

- 2:30 pm, Rm. 360 Tory Bldg., Carleton University,
Speakers include Abousfian Abdelrazik, organizers for Project Fly Home and a representative of the legal team. Organized by the Carleton University Human Rights B.A. Program and OPIRG-Carleton.

- 7:00 pm, TOM BROWN ARENA HALL, 141 Bayview Rd. at Scott
O-train or transitway to Bayview Station or Bus 16 to
Scott-Bayview stop.
Speakers include Abousfian Abdelrazik, organizers for Project Fly
Home, a representative of the legal team, and Paul Dewar, MP on
the political situation..
Free admission, refreshments. Organized by nowar-paix.

American Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Judge confirms that an Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions

Revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (PDF), point to th efact that the US government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth..

Full article and documents HERE

by Andy Worthington Post - September 30, 2009:

"A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions"

"THESE GUYS ARE ALL SCIENTISTS !!!!! "....."my dear..."

TORTURE SONG

TORTURE IS THE CORRECT WORD, not "ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUE"...

Estimated 500+ Aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years- The crisis of missing and murdered women

Event about the crisis of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada

The event will begin with the screening of Finding Dawn, a compelling documentary on the estimated 500+ Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years.

The documentary "Finding Dawn" illustrates the deep historical, social and economic roots of violence against Aboriginal women. It concludes with a message of hope and shared responsibility. Directed by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh.

The documentary: Finding Dawn: Justice for Aboriginal Women

When: Wednesday, October 7 at 7:00 PM

Where: Kailash Mital Theater, Southam Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa ON

Free admission (suggested donation $10)


Entry is free to public and all donations – suggested at $10 – will go to the Kelly Morrisseau Education Fund established by Paul Dewar. The fund is dedicated to Kelly Morrisseau’s children, a young aboriginal woman who was murdered in Gatineau Park in December 2006.

M.D. William Henry Anderson, former Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Guantanamo Bay, CALLS FOR THE KILLING OF 100,000 MUSLIN "ZEALOTS"

His article was published in the Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies .

Article published Monday August 31, 2009 - by Jeff Kayne: (HERE)

"This story reports on an extraordinary 2004 article by a Harvard lecturer and former Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Guantanamo Bay, which made the shocking claim that "hard-core zealots" had "brains that are structurally and functionally different from us." Furthermore, the article stated, 100,000 "zealots" within the Muslim body politic would have to be eliminated, the way "malignant [cancer] cells" are removed from a healthy body.

The author of the article, "Terrorism - The Underlying Causes," in the Winter/Spring 2004 issue of the Intelligencer, Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies (PDF), house organ for the American Federation of Intelligence Officers (AFIO), was William Henry Anderson, M.D. Anderson's piece received a stinging protest letter to the editor from psychologist and military ethics expert, Jean Maria Arrigo, but I'm not aware of any other complaint regarding this racist, fascistic article in the pages of a major intelligence services journal."

AMERICAN HISTORY OF ABUSES GOES ON - From MKULTRA to today experiments in Humans by USA

Originally published on The Public Record - Sep 9th, 2009 - by Jeffrey Kaye (HERE)

Experiments Linked to Torture Program:

A number of new articles have been published recently that have highlighted evidence of illegal human experimentation on U.S.-held “terrorism” prisoners undergoing torture. These articles followed the release of a “white paper” by Physicians for Human Rights [PHR], Aiding Torture: Health Professionals’ Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated in the May 2004 Inspector General’s Report.

To continue reading the article, click HERE

SHAMELESS USA : Rendition Torture Flights Doctor "Col. (Dr.) James W. Walter Gets Medal for Serving on Torture Program

Originally posted at Firedoglake

"Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, reported on September 17 that Col. (Dr.) James W. Walter has been awarded the Air Medal "for his meritorious service on delicate assignments providing medical care to enemy detainees."

From January 2007 to 2009 as the senior detainee movement flight surgeon, he provided 106 combat hours of support to the 14 Joint Task Force Detainee Movement Operations missions in the C-17A. His service included travel into 15 different countries, some of them in an active enemy fire zone."

Air Force Doctor Gets Medal for Serving on Rendition Torture Flights
By Jeff Kaye
Maxwell-Gunther Dispatch.com, the web news site for personnel and interested partisans of Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, reported on September 17 that Col. (Dr.) James W. Walter has been awarded the Air Medal “for his meritorious service on delicate assignments providing medical care to enemy detainees.”

From January 2007 to 2009 as the senior detainee movement flight surgeon, he provided 106 combat hours of support to the 14 Joint Task Force Detainee Movement Operations missions in the C-17A. His service included travel into 15 different countries, some of them in an active enemy fire zone.

The article goes into great detail about “self-professed military brat” Walter’s career as a NASA space shuttle launch and recovery physician, and says nothing more about the service for which he was awarded a medal. That’s because the military’s rendition program is highly secret. Stephen Grey in his 2006 book, Ghost Plane, noted the existence of the military’s rendition program, and proclaimed it was larger than the CIA’s. But Grey’s research concentrated on the CIA’s program. The Pentagon’s rendition program received its first major outing in the pages of the New York Times only in August 2008:

WASHINGTON – The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to American military officials.
The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by the Central Intelligence Agency since the Sept. 11 attacks to secretly transfer people suspected of being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned.

And tortured? The United States supposedly seeks “assurances” that the prisoners will not be tortured when sent back to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. An article by Eric Umansky at Pro Publica, published just after the Times expose, noted that though American officials insist they obtain guarantees that “detainees” will be treated “humanely,” rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch, aren’t so sure:

The growing weight of evidence and international expert opinion indicates that diplomatic assurances cannot protect people at risk of torture from such treatment on return. Sending countries that rely on such assurances are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a fig leaf to cover their own complicity in torture. In either case, governments seeking diplomatic assurances against torture are in effect trying to circumvent their own obligations not to return people to face such treatment.
All the governments offering diplomatic assurances have long histories and continuing records of employing torture, a fact that most sending governments acknowledge….
In October 2002, the U.S. government transferred Maher Arar, a dual Canadian-Syrian citizen, from New York via Jordan to Syria based on diplomatic assurances of humane treatment. Arar was released in October 2003. An independent fact-finder appointed by an official Canadian Commission of Inquiry into Arar’s treatment concluded in October 2005 that Arar had been tortured in Syrian custody, despite Syrian assurances to the contrary and several visits from Canadian consular officials.

While Col. (Dr.) Walter is said to have orthopedic experience, it’s most likely he was there to monitor and/or administer sedating drugs which numerous reports have indicated were administered to rendition victims. I suppose if a “detainee” needed some stitches after a beating, or even a bone set after an “incident,” the good doctor would be there to make sure the prisoner arrived in good shape for his Saudi or Egyptian torturer. Of course, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were surely not the only destinations for rendition flights, as the Maxwell-Gunther article notes Walter’s planes traveled to at least 15 different countries. It is worth noting here, by the way, that the Obama administration has refused to end the rendition program, though its officials offer the same bland assurances about prisoner safety as those of their GOP predecessors.
According to the New York Times article, once captured, the prisoners are first held in one of two Special Operations prisons, “in Balad, Iraq, and Bagram, Afghanistan, for up to two weeks,” more if Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gives the high sign. They are imprisoned without notice to the International Red Cross, until they’re ready for transfer. According to Steven Grey, no hearing takes place prior to their rendition back to a country that might torture them, as is required by international law. Perhaps that’s because the prisoners supposedly “can block their transfers to home countries.” As Pro Publica’s Umansky laconically noted, “No word on what happens to the prisoners if they choose to exercise their apparent right to veto.” Apparently, as of August 2008 over 200 prisoners had already been transferred to their home countries under the military’s rendition program. (In 2006, Grey thought the number as high as 1,000.) But with all the attention on the CIA’s rendition program, the Pentagon’s version appears to have flown under the radar, news-wise.
Until Col. (Dr.) Walter got his medal. How ironic it comes only days after Physicians for Human Rights released a “white paper” on doctors aiding torture. Steven Miles, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and America’s War on Terror, has written: “The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations” in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. The participation of doctors in the rendition program, which has sent an untold number of prisoners back to the torture dungeons of some of the most brutal regimes on this planet, is both a crime and a violation of medical ethics of the highest sort.
It is a painful truth that actions that should be condemned and punished are instead, in 2009 America, awarded medals. And how did Col. (Dr.) Walter respond to his high honor?

“It’s kind of neat to get a medal on the flying side rather than the medical side,” said Colonel Walter. “My father would be proud.”

USA Torture Program and America's History of Human Experiments and impunity - History Channel documentary

To read documents and to learn the History of US torture in SERE, Vietnam, Latin America, GMTO, Black Sites , see Michael Otterman's research site at:

http://www.americantorture.com/

Herta Oberheuser - Physician

Herta Oberheuser - female physician who worked under Dr.Kark Gebhart, performing human experiments during the Nazi regime. She worked at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp from 1940 to 1943.

April 8, 1947

She made some of the most gruesome and painful medical experiments conducted in 86 women, 74 of whom were Polish political prisoners in the camp.

Her experiments focused on deliberately inflicting wounds on the subjects. In order to simulate the combat wounds of German soldiers fighting in the war, Herta Oberheuser rubbed foreign objects, such as wood, rusty nails, slivers of glass, dirt or sawdust into the wounds.

Oberheuser killed healthy children with oil and evipan injections, then removed their limbs and vital organs.

UK NEWS - Control Orders to be revoked (control orders in Canada are the "Security Certficates" equivalente

News in The Guardian - Sep 7, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/07/control-orders-terror-suspects-revoke

Most of the remaining control orders imposed on terror suspects are expected to be revoked following the decision by the home secretary, Alan Johnson, to free a man with Libyan and British nationality after three years under virtual house arrest.

Harm School - An article by William Saletan - SLATE Magazine - Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Rape, S&M, and the Bush torture program.


At : http://www.slate.com/id/2216702/pagenum/all/


September 2009:
Rape , Sadomasochism and the American Interrogation Program:

First, they make the person "a criminal" - no consent necessary...
Then, they go on dehumanizing those they have chosen as "specials". And then, there is no accountability...

GOMORRAH :sadism and hypocrisy

"Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah has become great, and because their sin has been very grave, I will descend and see...'"
(Sodom and Gomorrah - were two cities in the Bible which were destroyed by God.)

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party - by Max Blumenthal
"The book traces the rise of the radical right in the US and how it used the concept of personal crisis to grow as a movement and eventually capture control of the GOP to transform it from the party of Dwight Eisenhower to the party of Sarah Palin."




References to Gomorrah:
Quran - HERE
The Jewish Enciclopedia HERE
Christian - HERE

Movie:Gomorrah-by Matteo Garrone based on the book by Roberto Saviano. More HERE

Book - Republican Gomorrah: by Max Blumenthal

Europe starts receiving men released from Guantanamo - August 28, 2009

The two men are:

Mohammed al-Tumani, who was 18 when he was seized in Afganistan with his father, Abdul Nasir al-Tumani, and both were sent to Guantanamo.

Moammar Dokhan, who was 29 when he was captured on the Pakistani border.

On August 28, 2009 the Portuguese interior ministry announced that two Syrian prisoners had arrived from Guantánamo and had been released on their arrival in Portugal. Officials added that they are “not subject to any charge, they are free people and are living in homes provided by the state.”

Mohammed al-Tumani (identified by the Pentagon as Muhammed Khan Tumani), is now 27 and Moammar Badawi Dokhan is 37 years old. Both were kept in Guantanamo without charge for six years and were “subjected to beatings and physical and psychological torture,” including sleep deprivation.

US Justice Department explained the circumstances of the men’s release, stressing that the final say in approving their transfer had been taken by Congress. “As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantánamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of these cases,” the DoJ announced, adding, “As a result of that review, the detainees were approved for transfer from Guantánamo Bay. On Aug. 6, 2009, in accordance with Congressionally-mandated reporting requirements, the Administration informed Congress of its intent to transfer these two detainees.

Their stories, publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection to terrorism.

The circunstances of their transfer to Guantanamo and release: HERE


FULL STORY AT "THE GUANTANAMO FILES" - by Andy Worthington - HERE

Socializing with atrocities

From Dachau Concentration Camp to USA:

The monumental evil done by particular human beings who were trained to heal and cure - A reminder of

of how educated, ordinary people allowed themselves to commit barbaric acts and became torturers and killers ...
THE SECRECY
"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual
engine of biological necessity. The rest of the population is not deemed
ready for full knowledge; there is an ambivalence between secrecy tinged
with shame and pride of achievement as the genocidal radius moves outward
into an increasingly enveloping system of order and policy, of bureaucratic
and technological arrangement"
PROFESSIONALS
"The KILLING PROFESSIONALS-Genocidal projects requires the active participation of educated professionals... - who combine to create not only the technology of genocide
but much of its ideological rationale, moral climate and organizational
process...."
TECHNOLOGY
"In the process of being improved, technology itself comes increasingly to dominate the perpetrators field of attention."
"The technology helps create a hermetic world in which everyone is motivated to make things "work". And the preoccupation takes on a sense of everydayness, of normality"
NUMBING
"The GENOCIDAL SELF - Extreme numbing can, as we have seen, lead to amoral self-process; and numbing and doubling to evil-self-process, sometimes with
the self losing its capacity to distinguish between good and
evil.....Precisely when the principle called upon takes on a strong
therapeutic tone can self-process move readily toward genocide"....

THESE ARE EXTRACTS FROM:
The Nazi Doctors - Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert J. Lifton
"A powerful reminder of the monumental evil done by particular human beings who were trained to heal and cure."--Robert Coles, "Boston Globe"

CIA doctors face human experimentation claims

The Guardian UK - September 2, 2009 - Ed Pilkington

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)

Morning Routine - (IRCT)

Another illegal Human Experiment by the CIA in progress ?

The History of CIA Torture: "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror"

The Canadian connection with the the "no-touch torture" techniques of the CIA:

Interview with Professor Alfred W.McCoy in the ABC Radio National Australia, "LateNightLive", aired March 16, 2006:

LISTEN HERE:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2006/1593534.htm

Topics of the interview include:
- the Canadian Defence Board sponsored experiments to induce psychosis
- the sensory deprivation chamber commissioned at McGuill University (the Manhatan Project of the Mind) - t in Montreal to today

Professor Alfred W.McCoy has been studying the CIA for twenty years, in his new book he traces the the evolution of CIA interrogation methods back to the failed mind control experiments of the Cold War, and argues that the images from Abu Ghraib reveal a systematic and deliberate application of those methods.

Title: A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Author: Alfred W McCoy
Publisher: Henry Holt

Rape and torture -by the graduates of american "School of the Americas" Led by also graduate Romeo Vasquez -The american taught way of doing business

Despite US government claims that they've cut all military ties with the Honduran golpistas, the SOA continues to train Honduran soldiers. article HERE.

Take action: HERE http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27691

RAPING THE WORLD: THE AMERICAN TORTURE INSTRUCTIONS- “Reception at Black Site”: WELCOME HOME !! and then "The insult slap "

The essence of American Torture, wherever it takes place:

"pressure" in a comprehensive, systematic and cumulative manner...

"The insult slap “is often the first physical technique used with an High Value Detainee once an interrogation begins.”

It is all written in details, from the first "insult slap" to wherever it goes...

Among the documents released on Monday there is a "background paper" which describes the CIA’s process of “rendition” and the torture prisoners are then subjected to ( at least part of it)

Instructions on torture satrating at the "Welcome Home" upon arrival at the torture prisons :

Three stages and more : conditioning techniques, corrective techniques and coercive techniques...

“conditioning techniques” - detainee is reduced to a “baseline, dependent state”
"corrective techniques" - “insult slap,” “abdominal slap,” “facial hold,” and “attention grasp.”...
"coercive techniques" - .....

Background paper - HERE "The Combined techniques of the United States of America Torture Program:
Documents released (only a fraction of what exists, for sure)

"Getting Used to it???" It took decades to USA to go from experiments in humans(MKULTRA) to a Torture Policy. Why blaming George Bush now?

The American Torture Program and a small, very small piece of its details is revealed and the atrocities are in no way far away from madness and cruelty. This could not have happened just "because of Bush". This has to be the result of a History of years and years of impunity and atrocities.

As History tells and in a very similar manner to detainees expected condition (as described in the memos) , America's History of atrocities become each day more and more "predictable" and probably "sustainable" as impunity is also in the USA agenda.. Because "Yes, they can"!

Although the documents released Monday , August 24, 2009, probably described only a small piece of the CIA’s detention and torture program and are "outdated" since the report dates back to 2004, hopefully it is still shocking to Americans to learn that their country, the self proclaimed "Bastian of democracy" has actually a real face that is far from decent besides having invested itself with the power of turn the rest of the world into witnesses to atrocities and impunity it proclaims to be unacceptable from others.

The memos speak for themselves - They show the real face of the United States of America and of its disregard for any rule or Law that is not convenient for the CIA and "others".

An interesting article about the content and link to the memos by Jason Leopold , The Public Record, August 25, 2009:
"Revealed: Docs Describe in Extraordinary Detail Process of ‘Rendition,’ Torture" HERE

USA The Torture Regime: A Lot more than "waterboarding"

Is the CIA Interrogation Probe for real? or just for "low-level sadists" as in the Abu Ghraib scandal?

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, constitutional law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com.

Missing Aboriginal Women - Sisters in Spirit

As The Manitoba government, RCMP and Winnipeg Police Service formally established a task force Wednesday to review cases involving missing and murdered women in the province as announced on August 26, 2009, a retrospective of the struggle that has been going on for so many years.
More at:
Amnesty International Canada Campaign -Stolen Sisters HERE
Sisters in Spirit HERE
Updates at http://www.missingjustice.ca/

"Guns, Drugs and the CIA " - An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing

Guns, Drugs and the CIA is a PBS Documentary aired on FRONTLINE on May 17, 1988 - Watch HERE - An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing

See also:
''The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia''-Alfred W. McCoy - HERE - ''New York Review of Books''

"Crack the CIA" - documentary winner of the 2003 Sundance Online Film Festival

Author Kerry Pither - Lecture and field comments on her book, " Dark Days "

Author Kerry Pither will lecture and field comments and questions on her much praised book, " Dark Days ".
Date: WEDNESDAY, September 16th, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - Doors open at 6:45 pm
Place: Hintonburg Community Centre
1064 Wellington Street, Wellington Room Ground Floor,
(3 blocks west of Somerset)
Ottawa, Ontario
Free parking in the back of the community centre
Bus: No 2