The still-classified programme operates under the authority of a Reagan-era executive order and is therefore “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection,” they said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) non-profit said: “These reports raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in...
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Influence Operation: ACLU Sues for Records of the CIA’s Haspel Nomination Campaign
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the CIA for records pertaining to the Agency’s campaign to support Gina Haspel’s nomination as director of the agency. The Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, filed Thursday, seeks records related to “Haspel’s potential conflict of interest in serving as the classification authority over information about her own role in...
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Doctors Diagnosis of CIA: Medical Complicity in Torture Program Was Sick
Physicians for Human Rights doesn’t mince words about release of a top secret report on CIA doctors who worked in the torture program between 2002 and 2009. The ACLU obtained the internal history last week. The 90-page document provides a chilling account of how CIA health professionals willingly participated in torture. The “Summary and Reflections” of...