“A C.I.A. abduction in 2004 landed them in Libya, where the man was tortured by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s security forces and imprisoned for six years.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/europe/britain-libya-apology-cia-rendition-torture.html
“The bottom line is that no one – not the United States, not Israel, not the International Atomic Energy Agency – ever really believed Iran was developing nuclear weapons.”
“Posada Carriles would later boast that ‘the CIA taught us everything… they taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in sabotage.’“
“The Canadian government funded Cameron with roughly $500,000 between 1950 and 1965 — $4 million in 2018 dollars, along with sizeable funding from the CIA.”
“He confessed it was his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who doubted the intentions of the government’s intelligence agency.”
“There exist a considerable number of Americans who just find it inconceivable that the CIA would do the things that it, by its own admission, was specializing in.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/24/a-remarkable-lawyer-and-a-fascinating-case/
“Clapper said without knowing exactly what the FBI’s concerns were at the time, it’s hard to say if Mr. Trump should have been warned about the use of informants.”
“The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge.”
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“How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International Criminal Court for running a torture prison get appointed the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency?”
Read more: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/05/19/64514/
“The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/24/yemen-war-uae-torture-ro-khanna/