Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said in a newspaper interview published Sunday that the Swiss government has asked the United States for information about 74 alleged CIA flights through Swiss airspace and several landings of CIA aircraft...
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Investigator claims Europe complicit in CIA renditions, prisons
Swiss Senator Dick Marty , who has been investigating allegations of illegal renditions and secret detention centers in Europe sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , said Friday that he...
Swiss intelligence agents have been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months, according to documents leaked to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick . According to SonntagsBlick, Swiss military intelligence [official website...
Europe rights watchdog calls CIA secret prisons allegations 'credible'
Swiss senator Dick Marty submitted a report to the Council of Europe (CoE) Tuesday, concluding that allegations that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe and abducted and illegally transported terror suspects across Europe are...
Large CIA secret prisons unlikely, but post-9/11 Kosovo camp "shocking": Europe council
The head of the Council of Europe investigation into possible secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe said Friday that the existence of large detention centers for US terror detainees in the region was unlikely. In a statement...
EU states have said they plan to write a joint letter to the US government seeking clarification about whether the US has been running illegal covert prisons in the EU as part of its war on terror....
Estonia PM resigns after justice minister gets no-confidence vote
Estonian prime minister Juhan Parts dissolved his government and announced his resignation Monday after parliament voted no-confidence in Justice Minister Ken-Marti Vaher and a controversial new anti-corruption plan. Vaher's plan had called for a system...
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Friday that two lawsuits against the Federal Election Commission should be combinced, calling their claims "virtually identical." The 2004 Bush campaign and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. and Marty Meehan,...