Austria has joined several other countries investigating whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted unauthorized flights through their airspace in 2003 while transporting terror detainees. An Austrian air force commander told state radio that a US...
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EU states have said they plan to write a joint letter to the US government seeking clarification about whether the US has been running illegal covert prisons in the EU as part of its war on terror....
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs revealed Monday that it is investigating reports that a plane allegedly used by the CIA to transport terror detainees landed at a Canadian airport last week. Montreal newspaper La Presse [media...
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday denied that the US Central Intelligence Agency has maintained any covert prisons in the country and has offered to allow investigations of two military bases used by the US...
CIA interrogators strictly obey torture laws when trying to obtain information from prisoners, according to CIA Director Porter Goss . In an interview published Monday, Goss told USA Today that the CIA employs "lawful capabilities to collect vital...
CIA prison flights may have refueled in Romania, says former defense minister
Former Romanian defense minister Ioan Mihai Pascu has acknowledged that US planes carrying detainees may have refueled in the country, but has denied the existence of a secret CIA-run prison there. His comments, published Saturday in Evenimentul Zileli [media website,...
80,000 US detainees since 9/11, alleged CIA secret prisons spark concern
The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The report comes amid increased criticism by human rights groups and European organizations...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the Senate compromise on the Graham Amendment limiting judicial review for Guantanamo detainees leaves the way open for grave mistakes and injustices that may further damage America's...
Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso announced Tuesday that the country would investigate allegations that US CIA planes carrying terrorism suspects made secret landings on Spanish soil before continuing to Libya, Algeria, Romania, Macedonia and Sweden....
Major US media organization Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of the Wall Street Journal and other publications, on Monday challenged efforts by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to keep documents secret in the CIA leak case...
