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Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Boeing in CIA "Torture Flight" Program

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit about the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program under President Bush, which sent terrorism suspects abroad to be tortured. In a ruling issued Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama administration's argument that the rendition program constitutes a state secret and its legality cannot be decided by courts. The lawsuit was brought against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan, Inc. Ref. Source 7

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Torture victim sues Obama administration over `Kafkaesque nightmare':

A Syrian man now living in Europe is suing the U.S. Government for damages from what he calls a ``Kafkaesque nightmare.'' The 44-page lawsuit by Abdul Razak al Janko, 32, described a decade-long odyssey of detention -- first in Taliban-era Afghanistan, where he was tortured as an alleged pro-American Israeli spy, and later in U.S. Military prisons Ref. Source 2

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US teen allowed to return home:

A US teenager stuck in Kuwait for a month after being placed on the US government's no-fly list was reunited with his family at a Washington airport. Mohamed claims he was blindfolded, beaten and tortured while he was detained for nearly a month in Kuwait at the behest of the US authorities. Ref. Source 3

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'US prisons, crime against humanity':

An estimated 3,000 people are held and tortured in secret rendition prisons around the world by the US war apparatus of which 95% are reportedly innocent. Ref. Source 2

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Little Evidence That Torture Treatment Used By CIA Produced Any Counter-Terrorism Breakthroughs

People familiar with the inquiry said it consisted of as much as 2,000 pages in narrative accounts of how the CIA interrogation program worked, including specific case histories in which enhanced interrogation tactics were used. Ref. Source 7

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Torture with Impunity:

Yesterday, a dark chapter in American history got that much more disgraceful. Attorney General Holder announced the closure of the last two open criminal inquiries into abusive interrogations by CIA officials. The pronouncement means that not a single CIA official will be prosecuted in federal courts for any of the abuse, torture or even death that took place at the hands of CIA Ref. Source 2

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U.S. Used This Torture Box to Interrogate Gadhafi's Enemies:

They were "Chained to walls naked - sometimes while diapered - in pitch black, windowless cells, for weeks or months at a time," Human Rights Watch alleges Ref. Source 6

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Report finds CIA torture ineffective:

The Senate intelligence committee approved a report concluding that "harsh interrogation" measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said. The 6,000-page document, which was not released to the public, was adopted by Democrats over the objections of most of the committee's Republicans. Ref. Source 2