Posted on November 18, 2009 by dandelionsalad
by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
18 November 2009
The Mighty Agency on it’s Knees in a Legal Battle
After 15 years of legal battles the CIA agrees to pay $3 million to a former DEA agent who accused a former CIA official of illegally eavesdropping on him as part of a joint CIA [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2009 by dandelionsalad
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talkingsticktv
November 13, 2009
Talk by 27-year Veteran of the CIA Ray McGovern on “Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security and Our Souls” given November 12, 2009 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Talk sponsored by Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture http://www.wsrcat.org
more about “Ray [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by dandelionsalad
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by Mizgin Yilmaz
Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post
Wednesday, 11. November 2009
Mizgin’s Desk Reports
As mentioned earlier, Brent Scowcroft will be ending his nine-year reign as chairman of the American Turkish Council (ATC) and will be succeeded by former Bush administration Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage.
Armitage may be best remembered for leaking information to Robert [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2009 by dandelionsalad
by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
9 November 2009
Afghan Carpetbaggers Hit Pots of Gold in Washington
Once Upon a Time a General…
Once upon a time there was an Afghani general named Abdul Rahim Wardak. He had studied in both US and Egyptian military schools before joining the army in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2009 by dandelionsalad
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By Paul Craig Roberts
November 06, 2009 “Information Clearing House“
The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2009 by dandelionsalad
by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
5 November 2009
In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2009 by dandelionsalad
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By Robert Stevens
www.wsws.org
5 November 2009
A US registered plane named in a 2007 European Parliament report into alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “extraordinary rendition” flights was observed to land at Birmingham Airport in England on October 2 of this year.
The 22-seat Gulfstream jet was met minutes later by two special forces helicopters belonging to Britain’s [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2009 by dandelionsalad
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by John Hooper
guardian.co.uk
4 Nov 2009
Italian court convicts Robert Lady and 23 others in absentia
First prosecution for US abduction of suspects to torture states
The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary [...]
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