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Why would the Ghost of Kyiv do this?
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Why would the Ghost of Kyiv do this?
https://twitter.com/kyivpost/status/1502366157675941889?s=21
CIA black sites are state secrets, Supreme Court rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former CIA contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets.
Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for a badly fractured court, said the main question was whether the information sought by the detainee, known as Abu Zubaydah, would confirm the location of a CIA black site, which is widely known to have been in Poland.
The justices split 6-3 on the question of whether the case could proceed. In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the government sought to avoid “further embarrassment for past misdeeds.”
“The facts are hard to face,” he wrote. “We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally — more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls ‘rectal rehydration.’ Further evidence along the same lines may lie in the government’s vaults. But as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.”
“This court’s duty is to the rule of law and the search for truth,” Gorsuch wrote. “We should not let shame obscure our vision.”
Breyer, on the other hand, insisted that the question at issue was a limited one. “Obviously, the court condones neither terrorism nor torture,” he wrote, “but in this case we are required to decide only a narrow evidentiary dispute.”
He conceded that the location of the black site had been acknowledged by an international tribunal and a former president of Poland. But he wrote that official confirmation of the location of the torture by the U.S. government was a different matter.
“It stands to reason that a former CIA insider’s confirmation of confidential cooperation between the CIA and a foreign intelligence service could damage the CIA’s clandestine relationships with foreign authorities,” he wrote. “Confirmation by such an insider is different in kind from speculation in the press or even by foreign courts because it leaves virtually no doubt as to the veracity of the information that has been confirmed.”
Zubaydah sought to subpoena the contractors, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in connection with a Polish criminal investigation. The inquiry was prompted by a determination by the European Court of Human Rights that he had been tortured in 2002 and 2003 at secret sites operated by the CIA, including one in Poland.
When the case, United States v. Husayn, No. 20-827, was argued in October, David Klein, a lawyer for Zubaydah said he was not seeking testimony about the location of the black site. “I’m not planning to ask, ‘Did it happen in Poland?’” he said.
Rather, Klein said, he sought information about his client’s treatment.
“What happened inside Abu Zubaydah’s cell between December 2002 and September 2003?” he asked, giving the dates during which his client was understood to be held in Poland. “How was Abu Zubaydah fed? What was his medical condition? What was his cell like? And, yes, was he tortured?”
Breyer wrote that questions such as those “would inevitably tend to confirm or deny whether the CIA operated a detention site located in Poland.”
In a concurring opinion endorsing Breyer’s bottom line but not his reasoning, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, wrote that the executive branch was entitled to even more deference than the majority had given it.
Justice Elena Kagan, in a partial dissent in the case, said she agreed that the location of the black site must be protected but said the case could nonetheless proceed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/politics/supreme-court-cia-black-sites-guantanamo.html
Inside the CIA's Secret Polish Torture Site(2014)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/poland-cia-secret-prison-black-site/357344/
> Are they actually using admittedly FAKE footage to market the fake War?
It appears they are.
Gas price in New Hartford $3.99 America needs energy policies that stop our reliance on foreign oil Pres Biden’s policies hv taken US from energy independence to energy dependence How much r u paying for gas??
https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/1502649391718580225?s=21
Flynn…?
I was more going for the comms angle here with #3999 and Flynn in the news
Telephone conversation with Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz and President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.
March 12, 2022 16:35
In response to the issues raised by the leaders of France and Germany regarding the humanitarian situation on the territory of the military operation to protect Donbass, Vladimir Putin informed them of the real situation on the ground. In particular, the Russian leader cited multiple facts of gross violations of the international humanitarian law by the Ukrainian army and police: extrajudicial killings of dissenters, hostage taking and the use of civilians as human shields, deployment of heavy weaponry in residential areas, in proximity to hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and so on. At the same time, nationalist battalions regularly sabotage rescue operations and threaten civilians when they attempt to evacuate. Vladimir Putin urged Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz to influence Kiev authorities so as to stop such criminal acts.
The President of Russia gave a detailed account of the series of talks held via videoconference by Russian and Ukrainian representatives over the past days. In this connection the three countries’ leaders reviewed some issues pertaining to the agreements being worked out concerning the implementation of the earlier Russian demands.
The leaders agreed to continue their contacts on Ukrainian issues.
https://twitter.com/kremlinrussia_e/status/1502662572956430337?s=21
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67970