CIA Attempting To HIDE 7,000 Docs Relating To Rendition-Detention-Torture

[kpete]

CIA has 7,000 documents relating to rendition, detention, torture programs, filing shows

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday April 23, 2008

Documents suggest CIA stonewalled Congress

The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged having 7,000 pages of documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's secret rendition and detention programs, according to three international human rights groups.

Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law made the claim following a summary judgment motion by the agency this week to avoid a lawsuit that seeks to force the nation's top spy outfit to make the documents public under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

"Among other assertions, the CIA claimed that it did not have to release the documents because many consist of correspondence with the White House or top Bush administration officials, or because they are between parties seeking legal advice on the programs, including guidance on the legality of certain interrogation procedures," the groups wrote in a release. "The CIA confirmed that it requested—and received—legal advice from attorneys at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel concerning these procedures."

“For the first time, the CIA has acknowledged that extensive records exist relating to its use of enforced disappearances and secret prisons,” Curt Goering, AIUSA senior deputy executive director, said in a statement. “Given what we already know about documents written by Bush administration officials trying to justify torture and other human rights crimes, one does not need a fertile imagination to conclude that the real reason for refusing to disclose these documents has more to do with avoiding disclosure of criminal activity than national security.”

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CIA_has_7000_documents_relating_to_0423.html

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1. off to search my bookmarks for old story about -CIA Increases Legal Liability Insurance

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3023421

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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-17-08 11:48 AM
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CIA Widens Pool of Employees It Will Reimburse for Liability Insurance

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CIA Increases Legal Liability Insurance
By Paul Kiel - March 17, 2008, 1:44PM

Preparations begin for the end of the Bush administration.

From the AP:

The CIA announced Monday that it will now pay the full cost of legal liability insurance for about two-thirds of the agency workforce....

One shift is already looming: A change in administrations could make it more likely lawsuits will be filed against CIA interrogators for a controversial program approved by the Bush White House — the use of harsh interrogation techniques and the secret movement of prisoners, known as extraordinary rendition.

The insurance comes from private companies to cover legal expenses that arise out of actions undertaken in the course of a CIA officer's official duties. It is meant to cover potential litigation expenses including damages. It covers legal expenses associated only with those activities undertaken after liability insurance is taken. The reimbursement program began in 2000.

Agency Director Michael Hayden on Monday announced that he had expanded the pool of those eligible to be reimbursed for insurance to include all employees involved in covert activities, not just those involved in counterterrorism and counterproliferation.


As the president of one of the companies that provides the insurance to CIA agents and other government officials put it, "The things that help us are any negative events related to the federal government, and there have been plenty.”

[bobthedrummer]

2. k&r

[libodem]

3. They should shove them

up their ass and then let some big ham fisted thug look for them. What goes around should come around.

[annabanana]

4. k&r. . . . . . .. n/t

[Supersedeas]

5. meanwhile the Establishment Media continues to sleep

[Purveyor]

6. Thank you for posting this. K&R EOM

[bobthedrummer]

7. Kick+ some related links

"In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom: CIA 'no touch' torture" (active Editorials and Other Articles thread)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x333974

"Torture victim's records lost at Guantanamo, admits camp general" by Elana Schor (4-21-2008 Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/guantanamo.humanrights

[spanone]

8. it just never ends.

[bobthedrummer]

9. >>>KICK

[wildbilln864]

10. k&r! nt

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