Friday, May 21, 2010
Bagram prisoners lose in USAppDC
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts does not extend to foreigners held at Bagram Air Force Base in the Afghan theater of war, and reverses a U.S. district judge who allowed the detainees' petitions.
David Sentelle, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is an appointee of President Ronald Reagan. Harry Edwards was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, and David Tatel by President Bill Clinton. David Sentelle is the only member who remains from the panel that appointed Kenneth Starr as an independent counsel, who, at the time, was considered to be a partisan choice.
Labels: Afghanistan, Bagram, David Sentelle, David Tatel, detainees, Harry Edwards, prison
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Black Sites
Kyle D. Foggo, Dusty: In November 2004, he was named the C.I.A.’s executive director, in effect its day-to-day administrative chief. He was eventually convicted in a bribery scandal involving former Representative Randall Cunningham of California. Mr. Foggo pleaded guilty and is serving a sentence on the fraud count. here
Labels: black site, CIA, detainees, Foggo, John Rizzo, prison
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Remaining USNS Lewis and Clark pirates gone
U.S. Navy on March 5 handed over seven suspected Somali pirates who were arrested in the Indian Ocean to the Kenyan police. Dressed in orange overalls and bare feet, the suspects who looked frail and tired were led into the cells of the port police station under tight guard. In January, the U.S entered into an agreement with Kenya to hand over suspected pirates to be tried in the country. Britain has already reached a similar agreement to hand over pirates to the Kenyan authorities. U.S. Embassy in Kenya released nine others in Bomasso Puntland, implying Kenya wouldn't accept them.
Labels: black site, detainee, Kenya, lewis clark, NCIS, pirates, prison, usns
Friday, February 27, 2009
USN offers pirates to Puntland
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya has contacted authorities in Somalia's self-governing State of Puntland to 'transfer' over a group of suspected pirates, The U.S. Navy apprehended the pirate suspects in the Gulf of Aden and has been holding them aboard USNS Lewis and Clark. The implication is that Kenya doesn't want them.
Labels: black site, extraordinary rendition, Kenya, lewis clark, pirates, prison, Puntland, rendition, usns
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
No Brave New World - V
Preventive Detention
Labels: CIA Director, detainee, National Security Council, Obama, pentagon, Preventive Detention, prison
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Creative Rendition
On February 11, the navy said, the MV Polaris, sailing under a Marshall Island flag, sent a distress call saying that seven men on a skiff had tried to force their way on board using a ladder. The Vella Gulf intercepted the skiff, found weapons and seized the suspects. For now the group is being held aboard the Lewis and Clark, a U.S. Navy ship equipped with bare-bones holding cells. Pentagon video footage showed thin black pallets and pillows spread on the floor and surrounded by coils of barbed wire.
USNS Lewis and Clark
Crew124 civilian, 11 naval, helicopter detachment when required
Overall Length210m
Length Between Perpendiculars199.55m
Beam32.2m
Design Draught9.12m
Scantling Draught (Maximum to Which Vessel is Loaded)9.50m
Displacement at Design Draught
The ships, which are not armed and are classified as non-combatant ships, are capable of operating independently for extended periods at sea while providing underway replenishment services and contribute to the US Navy's ability to maintain a forward presence.
Labels: black site, detainee, John le Carré, lewis clark, prison, rendition, T-AKE+1, usns
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
“Thoroughly vetted with the appropriate officials "
Justice lawyer, Douglas N. Letter, made the state-secrets argument on February 9, startling several judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit hearing the Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. case.
“Is there anything material that has happened” that might have caused the Justice Department to shift its views, asked Judge Mary M. Schroeder, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, coyly referring to the recent election.
“No, your honor,” Mr. Letter replied.
Judge Schroeder asked, “The change in administration has no bearing?”
Once more, he said, “No, Your Honor.” The position he was taking in court on behalf of the government had been “thoroughly vetted with the appropriate officials within the new administration,” and “these are the authorized positions,” he said.
Labels: black site, cia flights, detainees, Jeppesen, John le Carré, prison, rendition
Monday, February 09, 2009
Extraordinary Rendition "remains a state secret"
Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU: “Eric Holder’s Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government.
In Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.a San Jose Boeing subsidiary. A source inside of the Ninth U.S. District Court tells ABC News that a representative of the Justice Department stood up to say that its position hasn't changed, that new administration stands behind arguments that previous administration made, with no ambiguity at all. The DOJ lawyer said the entire subject matter remains a state secret.
Labels: cia flights, extraordinary rendition, Jeppesen, prison
Thursday, January 22, 2009
No brave new world -3rd
President Obama is expected to sign executive orders that would allow its officers abroad to temporarily detain terrorism suspects and transfer them to other agencies, but would no longer allow the agency to carry out long-term detentions. They could also allow Mr. Obama to reinstate the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation operations in the future, by presidential order, as some have argued would be appropriate if Osama bin Laden or another top-level leader of Al Qaeda were captured. The White House might be open to allowing the use of methods other the 19 techniques allowed for the military.
Labels: black site, CIA, cia flights, craig obama, extraordinary rendition, John le Carré, prison
Monday, January 12, 2009
No brave new world - con'd
What Bush and Cheney did was different less in kind than in degree—creating a vast program of renditions and secret prisons, as well as aggressively pursuing "targeted killings" of "high-value targets." Congressional leaders were informed, but some said that the briefings were cryptic. National security is an unavoidably murky world. But it doesn't have to be quite so dark as Cheney et al. made it, loosing the dogs of war from some "undisclosed location." So much of the anger against the Bush administration could have been avoided if Bush had gone to Congress in the first place. Obama’s Cheney Dilemma By Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas claimed that when Americans are "under threat, we sort of make this pact" with the government allowing it to "[g]o off and be secret and do dirty things" without "tell[ing] us about it." wmv
Labels: black site, CIA, detainees, Evan Thomas, flight, Obama, Panetta, prison, rendition
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Third director of national intelligence
Retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair, Blair, a Rhodes scholar, will oversee the operation of secret CIA prisons overseas, and the ongoing wiretapping of e-mails and calls that pass through the United States according to government officials familiar with the selection process.
Labels: Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, extraordinary rendition, prison, privacy civil liberties board, tapes
Friday, July 27, 2007
Mauritania?
Mauritania denies having secret CIA prison
The General’s Report, By Seymour M. Hersh, 25 June, 2007, The New Yorker
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Labels: black site, CIA, detainee flight CIA, detention, flight, Mauritania, prison, rendition
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