EU threatens sanctions against any member housing secret US prisons
European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs Franco Frattini said Monday that although the informal EU investigation into the alleged existence of secret US prisons in European Union nations has revealed...
European court considering probes into CIA rendition practices
Courts in Spain, Italy and Germany are considering inquiries into CIA operations in Europe, specifically its rendition program, where suspected terrorists are kidnapped and sent to countries that will torture them. The Spanish investigation began in March when a...
Senator seeks to defer to DOJ in CIA prison leak investigation
The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Pat Roberts (R-KS) , has told Senate leaders that Congress should not push for a probe into the leak of classified information on secret prisons to the Washington Post...
The US Department of Justice is considering a request from the Central Intelligence Agency to open a criminal investigation into the leak of possibly classified information on the existence of secret CIA detention centers for suspected terrorists...
Frist, Hastert call for investigation into leak of CIA secret prison information
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday called for a Congressional investigation into who leaked information on secret Central Intelligence Agency prison facilities in Eastern Europe rumored...
The European Commission said Thursday that it plans to investigate allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using a Soviet-era compound in eastern Europe as part of a secret prison system to...
CIA reportedly holding al Qaeda terror suspects in covert prison system
The Central Intelligence Agency has held and interrogated some of its most important al Qaeda suspects at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that Americans should start caring about the denial of legal process to prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) not just out of sentimentality or...
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...
German citizen wrongly held in Kabul until Rice release order
US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...
