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White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Under Secretary for
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey and National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen join Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to talk about the ongoing response to the BP Oil Spill and BP’s establishment of
a $20 billion escrow account to pay claims for damages. June 16, 2010.
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White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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NEW YORK, Feb 23 (IPS) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed members of Congress from both political parties numerous times about the agency’s interrogation and detention programmes, several prominent human rights groups said Monday.
The groups – Amnesty International USA, the Centre for Constitutional Rights and the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law – filed a lawsuit in 2007 based on their requests for information about the programme under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The FOIA requests, dating back to 2004, sought records about rendition, secret detention, and enhanced interrogation.
The rights groups announced receipt of several new documents in response to their FOIA litigation.
Among other new information, the documents show that while Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in authorising waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques has been public, a newly obtained Feb. 4, 2003, CIA memo documents the role of Counsel for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in analysing and approving the CIA techniques.
David Addington was counsel to the vice president until he succeeded Lewis Scooter Libby, who was convicted of perjury in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Libby’s prison sentence was commuted by then President George W. Bush.
The rights groups said that, according to CIA meeting records and the Feb. 4, 2003 memo, it seems that in one of his first acts as chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas discontinued efforts by previous chair, Democratic Senator Bob Graham of Florida, to implement greater oversight of these programmes, thus abdicating the role of Congress in overseeing the CIA rendition, secret detention, and torture programmes.
They said there are significant questions about how clear the CIA was with Congress – including in then-CIA Director Michael Hayden’s previously classified briefing on Apr. 12, 2007 to the Senate Intelligence Committee – about the timing, nature and results of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, particularly prior to the Aug. 1, 2002 memo prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
It is known that Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in 2002. OLC lawyers at the time, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, were the principal drafters of that memo, which has come to be known as the torture memo.
Chip Pitts, president of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee and former chair of Amnesty International USA, told IPS, In order to finally achieve the transparency and accountability that is so indispensable to learning lessons and avoiding calamitous policy failures like the prior administration’s recourse to torture, the need is clearer than ever for a broad and impartial criminal investigation of all the facts surrounding the torture programme.
He added, No lawyer or other official, high or low, should be immune from the investigation and prosecution required by our national interest, domestic law, and the international treaty obligations the country has undertaken under the Convention Against Torture.
Gitanjali Gutierrez, an attorney at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, said, Members of Congress must come clean about whether they encouraged or objected to torture during these many secret meetings with CIA officials and we need a complete accounting of Cheney’s counsel, David Addington’s, role in the creation of the torture programme.
These new documents show that the CIA may have lied to Congress about the role of interrogation techniques in detainee deaths and key members of Congress abdicated their oversight role. This new information points even more strongly to the need for a full criminal investigation of the torture programme, up the entire chain of command, Gutierrez said.
In a related development, after years of stonewalling, an official Polish government agency has admitted that airspace and landing facilities in that country were used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to detain, house and transport terrorism suspects.
It was the first time Polish authorities have admitted that their country houses one of the CIA’s so-called black sites – part of the agency’s network of secret prisons.
The CIA kidnapped suspected al Qaeda members and transported them to the black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called enhanced interrogation techniques as part of the C.I.A.’s programme of extraordinary rendition.
Prosecutors in Poland are now investigating the country’s participation in the programme.
The admission from the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) came in response to charges by two rights groups, the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human
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White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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Part 6
This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by thimerosal mercury in the baby vaccines. In one chart, David shows how the vaccine companies could be forced to pay $100 billion in lawsuit claims if this evidence is brought into court.
$100 billion is a vast sum of money. Now we wonder, what would these vaccine companies do to try to protect that $100 billion?
http://www.safetylawsuits.com/
Duration : 0:9:58
Part 1
This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by thimerosal mercury in the baby vaccines. In one chart, David shows how the vaccine companies could be forced to pay $100 billion in lawsuit claims if this evidence is brought into court.
$100 billion is a vast sum of money. Now we wonder, what would these vaccine companies do to try to protect that $100 billion?
http://www.safetylawsuits.com/
Duration : 0:9:47
Part 4
This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by thimerosal mercury in the baby vaccines. In one chart, David shows how the vaccine companies could be forced to pay $100 billion in lawsuit claims if this evidence is brought into court.
$100 billion is a vast sum of money. Now we wonder, what would these vaccine companies do to try to protect that $100 billion?
I myself recently filed an anti-vaccine lawsuit in federal court USDNJ #09-3803.
http://www.safetylawsuits.com/
Duration : 0:10:0
Part 5
This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by thimerosal mercury in the baby vaccines. In one chart, David shows how the vaccine companies could be forced to pay $100 billion in lawsuit claims if this evidence is brought into court.
$100 billion is a vast sum of money. Now we wonder, what would these vaccine companies do to try to protect that $100 billion?
I myself recently filed an anti-vaccine lawsuit in federal court USDNJ #09-3803.
http://www.safetylawsuits.com/
Duration : 0:10:0
Part 6
This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by thimerosal mercury in the baby vaccines. In one chart, David shows how the vaccine companies could be forced to pay $100 billion in lawsuit claims if this evidence is brought into court.
$100 billion is a vast sum of money. Now we wonder, what would these vaccine companies do to try to protect that $100 billion?
I myself recently filed an anti-vaccine lawsuit in federal court USDNJ #09-3803.
http://www.safetylawsuits.com/
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