Nominee for CIA chief says casualties from drone strikes should be public

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s pick for CIA director, John Brennan, promised senators who will vote on his nomination more openness about U.S. counter-terrorism programs, saying the closely   Original post on reuters.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Exclusive: Inside A Secret CIA Prison In The Polish Countryside – All News Is Global

Exclusive: Inside A Secret CIA Prison In The Polish Countryside | Worldcrunch – Great stories from the world’s best news sources   Original post on worldcrunch.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Insight – Poland’s investigation into secret CIA prisons loses steam

WARSAW (Reuters) – Lawyers for two men who say they were held illegally in a secret CIA jail on Polish territory argue that a landmark criminal investigation into the black site is being stalled because   Original post on reuters.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Beaten and sodomized: European human rights court finds CIA guilty of torture

The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever. A German citizen was illegally detained, tortured and sodomized by a CIA “rendition team’ after being mistaken for an al-Qaeda member.   Original post on rt.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Benghazi, Not Petraeus Affair, Is Focus at Hearings

David H. Petraeus the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said hat classified intelligence reports revealed that the assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were linked to Al Qaeda to avoid tipping off the groups.   Original post on nytimes.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan

UNKNOWN gunmen have killed a polio vaccinator in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, highlighting resistance to the country’s immunisation campaign, officials say.   Original post on news.com.au    Comments on reddit.com   

Italy Court Upholds American Convictions

Italy’s highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities.   Original post on nytimes.com    Comments on reddit.com   

US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya – Human Rights Watch

(Washington) – The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human R   Original post on hrw.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Obama’s justice department grants final immunity to Bush’s CIA torturers – Glenn Greenwald – Comment is free

Glenn Greenwald: By closing two cases of detainees tortured to death, Obama has put the US beyond any accountability under the rule of law   Original post on guardian.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Revealed: CIA secretly operates on Syrian border, supplies arms to rebels – RT

American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious.   Original post on rt.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Privacy and Security Fanatic: CIA wants to spy on you through your appliances

Smart appliances and devices connected to the web, the coming Internet of Things, will be like Americans planted bugging devices in their homes. The CIA is looking forward to such an opportunity for mass monitoring. In the not-too-distant future, household appliances and web-connected devices will offer the government unfettered access to spy on citizens.   Original post on networkworld.com    Comments on digg.com   

AP Sources: CIA-led force may speed Afghan exit – Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: Top Pentagon officials are considering putting elite special operations troops under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, just as they were during last year’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, sources told The Associated Press.   Original post on yahoo.com    Comments on digg.com