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Feb 11, 2022 · Fri 11 Feb 2022 12.51 EST. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been secretly collecting Americans’ private information in bulk, according to newly declassified documents that prompted...
- Project Mockingbird. > When: 1963-1965. > What: Domestic wiretapping. New York Times military correspondent Hanson Baldwin revealed in a report in 1962 classified information regarding U.S. and Soviet military operations.
- Operation Mockingbird. > When: 1950 till unknown. > What: Use of media. This alleged CIA operation that began during the Cold War was used to manipulate the media to promote certain agendas and anti-communist messages.
- Extraordinary rendition. > When: 1995 till unknown. > What: Extrajudicial transfers of detainees to another country for interrogation. Extraordinary rendition is the extrajudiciary transfer of foreign nationals suspected of terrorism to detention centers in other countries where illegal and inhumane interrogation methods may be applied.
- Enhanced interrogation. > When: 2001-2009? > What: Torture of all kind – physical, sexual, psychological. After 9/11, the Bush administration approved a torture program that defied the Geneva Conventions, labeling the program with the euphemism “enhanced interrogation.”
Aug 29, 2023 · NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday threw out an obstruction charge but mostly upheld the conviction of a former Central Intelligence Agency software engineer for carrying out the...
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Jul 2, 2007 · Reuters. White House political adviser Karl Rove was never charged in the CIA leak case. Matt Cooper, formerly of Time magazine, told a grand jury that Rove leaked to him that Ambassador Wilson's...