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According to reports, Blackwater Worldwide released riot control gas on U.S. troops in 2005

January 11, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today sent the following letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, calling on him to respond to reports that Blackwater Worldwide allegedly dispersed CS gas, a riot control substance, in an intersection populated by U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians in 2005.    » read more »

11 January 2008 -- The human rights group Amnesty International staged protests around the world Friday to mark the sixth anniversary of the first arrival of detainees at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The group is demanding the prison be shut down. Meanwhile, a U.S. appeals court in Washington has ruled against four British men who allege they were tortured during their detention at Guantanamo.    » read more »

Parliament Approval Key to Ending Culture of Impunity for Serious Abuses

(New York, January 9, 2008) – Iraq’s parliament should approve legislation to end immunity for foreign private security contractors, Human Rights Watch said today. The legislation would effectively rescind Order 17 of the now-defunct, US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which grants foreign contractors and their non-Iraqi employees immunity from Iraqi criminal prosecution.    » read more »

December 19, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) gave the following statement at the Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing on "Enforcement of Federal Criminal Law to Protect Americans Working for U.S. Contractors in Iraq." Today, former KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones, testified that she was raped and held captive by her KBR/Halliburton colleagues while serving as a contractor in Iraq.    » read more »

December 18, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy sent the following letter to Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, regarding the destruction by the CIA of videotapes of the interrogation of two detainees.

Senator Kennedy requests notification as to whether or not the FBI has retained such videotapes or transcripts, and if so, that they be preserved and make available for inspection.

The text of the letter is below.

December 18, 2007

Robert S. Mueller III

Director    » read more »

December 14, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Barack Obama (D-IL), and Jon Tester (D-MT) today sent letters to the Attorney General, and the Inspector Generals of the Defense and State Departments, seeking information about their apparent failure to investigate allegations made by former Halliburton/KBR administrative assistant Jamie Leigh Jones that she was drugged and raped by several co-workers while employed at Camp Hope in Baghdad, Iraq.    » read more »

December 12, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today called for an investigation of allegations by Jamie Leigh Jones that she was brutally raped and forcibly detained while serving as a contractor in Iraq. According to news reports, more than two years later, no United States government agency or department has undertaken a proper investigation of the incident.    » read more »

12 December 2007 -- Researchers in the Amazon, attending the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, say a vicious cycle of climate change and deforestation could destroy the world's largest tropical rain forest more quickly than expected. Trish Anderton explains, in a background report.

Researchers say vicious cycle of climate change, deforestation could destroy world's largest tropical rain forest more quickly than expected    » read more »

Washington, D.C. -- December 11, 2007 -- The U.S. Congress should vote in favor of the legislation currently before the House and Senate outlawing harsh interrogation techniques and requiring all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, to abide by the U.S. Army Field Manual, Freedom House said today.    » read more »

12/11/2007 -- SANTA FE, NM-- New Mexico Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Richardson today issued the following statement regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on the destruction of CIA videotapes of interrogation techniques used against a terror suspect:    » read more »

December 11, 2007 -- Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today on the floor of the U.S. Senate, calling for a full accounting of the circumstances surrounding the destroyed tapes of CIA interrogations. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:

“As the end of 2007 continues to draw near, we have a busy week ahead of us. We hope to complete action on the appropriations process, which will require the White House, along with House and Senate Republicans, to be reasonable in the pursuit of common ground.    » read more »

December 11, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) sent a letter to Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President, asking him to confirm that the White House and the Office of the Vice President are preserving all documents related to the Central Intelligence Agency’s policies and programs regarding the detention and interrogation of individuals involved in international terrorism.    » read more »

Wilmington, DE (December 6, 2007) – Sen. Joe Biden today issued the following statement in response to news reports [Politico, 12/5/07] that Vice President Cheney “predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office,” and called “the current U.S. surge strategy ‘a remarkable success story’ that will be studied for years to come”:    » read more »

Sees further evidence supporting impeachment of Bush, Cheney

December 04, 2007 -- DES MOINES, IA – Democratic Presidential candidate and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich issued the following statement today to elaborate on comments he made yesterday regarding the U.S. intelligence reports revealing that Iran ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003.    » read more »

November 26, 2007 -- "The Vice President visited his doctors at George Washington University Hospital this afternoon for evaluation and treatment of atrial fibrillation (an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart) which was discovered incidentally this morning during examination for a lingering cough from a cold.

An electrical impulse was used to restore the upper chambers to normal rhythm. The procedure went smoothly and without complication. The Vice President has returned home and will resume his normal schedule tomorrow at the White House. "

Source: White House