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• Review: The only thrill in 'Traitor' is knowing when this film is

  - 2008-08-27

  What's worse than a thriller with no thrills? A thriller that puts you to sleep. Flat and just plain boring most of the time, "Traitor" wastes some fine actors -- Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels and Said Taghmaoui -- and a topical story, finding no sparks in...

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• The body snatchers: inside the CIA's extraordinary rendition program—and the bungled abduction that exposed its secrets

  - 2008-03-01

  FOR HOURS, the words come pouring out of Abu Omar as he describes his years of torture at the hands of Egypt's security services. Spreading his arms in a crucifixion position, he demonstrates how he was tied to a metal door as shocks were administered to his nipples and genitals....

  Tags: CIA, Egypt, Government, Italy, Lady, Milan, phone, terrorism, torture

• Transcript of European Union/United States Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Press Conference

  - 2007-12-11

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008 or TDD: +1- 202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of a European Union/United States Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Press Conference:12:40 P.M.ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: Good afternoon. I am pleased to have this opportunity to host the European...

  Tags: CIA, Europe, Government, secretary, SECURITY, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Department of Justice

• Democrats call for probe of CIA tape destruction

  - 2007-12-08

  WASHINGTON -- Angry congressional Democrats demand- ed Friday that the Justice Department investigate why the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogation of two terrorism suspects. The Senates No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called on Attorney General Michael Mukasey to find out whether CIA...

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, terrorism

• Bar Association criticizes interrogations order

  - 2007-08-12

  SAN FRANCISCO -- President Bush's recent order on CIA interrogations of terror suspects should be overturned because it still allows harsh treatment in violation of international treaties, two American Bar Association committees say. The CIA should follow the same rigorous standards adopted by the military that are intended,...

  Tags: administration, CIA, Government, terrorism

• 'Intense' interrogations on terrorism OK, Mitt says

  - 2007-07-21

  DENISON, Iowa -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Friday more intense methods of CIA interrogation are acceptable in dealing with terrorism and he praised the broad powers granted law enforcement under the USA Patriot Act. During a question-and-answer session at an Iowa campaign stop, Romney was asked...

  Tags: CIA, Government, Iowa, Regulations, Republican, terrorism, torture

• Frayed Western alliance threatens war on terrorism

  - 2007-05-01

  My late father, Thomas Patrick Raleigh, always enjoyed a spirited political debate. Throughout the Cold War-Vietnam-Watergate era, heated discussions among opinionated Irishmen would take place on Friday nights between toddies at the Ancient Order of Hibernian hall in South Troy. To these I was a silent but attentive observer. ...

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• Amnesty International Calls on EU-U.S. Officials Not to Ignore Human Rights in Fight Against Terrorism

  - 2007-04-27

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Sharon Singh of Amnesty International, +1-202-544-0200, ext. 302 WASHINGTON, April 27, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Do not continue to ignore the human rights abuses in the fight against terrorism, appealed Amnesty International prior to the EU-U.S. Summit taking place in Washington on Monday, April 30. The organization urged that...

  Tags: CIA, Government, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Government, Washington

• Iran FM accuses US of supporting terrorism

  - 2007-04-23

  HAVANA AFP — Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday claimed in Havana that Washington supported terrorism in various parts of the world, criticizing last week's release of a former CIA operative convicted in the deadly 1976 downing of a Cuban airliner. The Iranian diplomat, who was on a...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Government, Iran, terrorism, U.S., Venezuela

• U.S. editorial excerpts -5-

  - 2007-02-05

  NEW YORK, Feb. 2 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: NO MORE RENDITIONS (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) THERE ARE PLENTY of legal and moral reasons why the CIA shouldn't be snatching terrorism suspects off the streets of Europe and shipping them to...

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