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schumi84f1 a écrit:la France aurait aidé l'Irak à cacher des ADM

sccc a écrit:schumi84f1 a écrit:la France aurait aidé l'Irak à cacher des ADM
Ben oui, tu savais pas?
Il paraît en plus que vous en avez vendu à Saddam pendant la période des sanctions.


Bloomberg a écrit:Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.
The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.
``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. ``This undermines that assertion.''
The lawsuit is related to an alleged NSA program to record and store data on calls placed by subscribers. More than 30 suits have been filed over claims that the carriers, the three biggest U.S. telephone companies, violated the privacy rights of their customers by cooperating with the NSA in an effort to track alleged terrorists.
``The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T's participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause `exceptionally grave harm to national security' and would violate both civil and criminal statutes,'' AT&T spokesman Dave Pacholczyk said in an e-mail.
U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller and NSA spokesman Don Weber declined to comment.
Pioneer Groundbreaker
The NSA initiative, code-named ``Pioneer Groundbreaker,'' asked AT&T unit AT&T Solutions to build exclusively for NSA use a network operations center which duplicated AT&T's Bedminster, New Jersey facility, the court papers claimed. That plan was abandoned in favor of the NSA acquiring the monitoring technology itself, plaintiffs' lawyers Bruce Afran said.
The NSA says on its Web site that in June 2000, the agency was seeking bids for a project to ``modernize and improve its information technology infrastructure.'' The plan, which included the privatization of its ``non-mission related'' systems support, was said to be part of Project Groundbreaker.
Mayer said the Pioneer project is ``a different component'' of that initiative.
Mayer and Afran said an unnamed former employee of the AT&T unit provided them with evidence that the NSA approached the carrier with the proposed plan. Afran said he has seen the worker's log book and independently confirmed the source's participation in the project. He declined to identify the employee.
Stop Suit
On June 9, U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel in New York stopped the lawsuit from moving forward while the Federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington rules on a U.S. request to assign all related telephone records lawsuits to a single judge.
Robert Varettoni, a spokesman for Verizon, said he was unaware of the allegations against AT&T and declined to comment.
Earlier this week, he issued a statement on behalf of the company that Verizon had not been asked by the NSA to provide customer phone records from either its hard-wired or wireless networks. Verizon also said that it couldn't confirm or deny ``whether it has any relationship to the classified NSA program.''
Mayer's lawsuit was filed following a May 11 USA Today report that the U.S. government was using the NSA to monitor domestic telephone calls. Earlier today, USA Today said it couldn't confirm its contention that BellSouth or Verizon had contracts with the NSA to provide a database of domestic customer phone call records.
Jeff Battcher, a spokesman for Atlanta-based BellSouth, said that vindicated the company.
``We never turned over any records to the NSA,'' he said in a telephone interview. ``We've been clear all along that they've never contacted us. Nobody in our company has ever had any contact with the NSA.''
The case is McMurray v. Verizon Communications Inc., 06cv3650, in the Southern District of New York.
Hugues a écrit:On a appris ces dernières heures que les écoutes de la NSA n'ont pas débuté après le 11 septembre 2001.
Mais que l'Administration Bush et la NSA les avaient entrepris au moins 7 mois avant cette date...
Autrement dit, à peine un mois après avoir pris ses fonctions, Bush demandait qu'on espionne la nation qui lui avait donné sa confiance.

von Rauffenstein a écrit:Pas oublier le Majestic Twelve les gârs ! C'est la faute aux p'tits gris de Roswell tout ça
http://www.mj12.com/
'tain sérieux bévé ! C'est les p'tits gris tout ça !B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:Pas oublier le Majestic Twelve les gârs ! C'est la faute aux p'tits gris de Roswell tout ça
http://www.mj12.com/
Les petits gris n'ont rien à voir là-dedans. Je suis sur qu'au moment de la première frappe sur la Chine, tu trouveras encore le moyen de penser que c'est en riposte à un bol de riz cantonnais frelaté trouvé à Chinatown.

von Rauffenstein a écrit:'tain sérieux bévé ! C'est les p'tits gris tout ça !B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:Pas oublier le Majestic Twelve les gârs ! C'est la faute aux p'tits gris de Roswell tout ça
http://www.mj12.com/
Les petits gris n'ont rien à voir là-dedans. Je suis sur qu'au moment de la première frappe sur la Chine, tu trouveras encore le moyen de penser que c'est en riposte à un bol de riz cantonnais frelaté trouvé à Chinatown.
B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:'tain sérieux bévé ! C'est les p'tits gris tout ça !B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:Pas oublier le Majestic Twelve les gârs ! C'est la faute aux p'tits gris de Roswell tout ça
http://www.mj12.com/
Les petits gris n'ont rien à voir là-dedans. Je suis sur qu'au moment de la première frappe sur la Chine, tu trouveras encore le moyen de penser que c'est en riposte à un bol de riz cantonnais frelaté trouvé à Chinatown.
L'ironie c'est qu'à force de jouer les gros bras, les yankees font de moins en moins peur. Les chinois, mais aussi les russes, les sud-américains, tous ceux-là les envoient de plus en plus ouvertement chier. Ca sent les gesticulations de fin de vie pour les anglo-saxons. Ils vont s'écrouler comme des merdes. Nous autres européens, nous serions bien inspirés d'arrêter trés vite de leur lecher le cul, faute de quoi on va avoir une mauvaise surprise quand ils s'affaisseront.

Ceci dit, le bouquin d'Emanuel Todt "Après l'Empire", (je crois) est très intéressant. Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.B.Verkiler a écrit:Tu ne sais pas mener une discussion géo-stratégique sérieuse, Panzer. .

von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
La psychanalyse ? Ou le conte de fée ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
Oui, ça doit être trés intéressant. Mais j'ai un peu peur que çe soit hors-sujet.

von Rauffenstein a écrit:La psychanalyse ? Ou le conte de fée ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
Oui, ça doit être trés intéressant. Mais j'ai un peu peur que çe soit hors-sujet.
Balance moi don' ce surmoi incongru aux orties.B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:La psychanalyse ? Ou le conte de fée ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
Oui, ça doit être trés intéressant. Mais j'ai un peu peur que çe soit hors-sujet.
Les deux.

von Rauffenstein a écrit:Balance moi don' ce surmoi incongru aux orties.B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:La psychanalyse ? Ou le conte de fée ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
Oui, ça doit être trés intéressant. Mais j'ai un peu peur que çe soit hors-sujet.
Les deux.
hmmm ? Pour SW, il faut s'adresser au spécialiste. Et c'est pas moi qui fait des yoda en origami pour se le foutre au bout de la bite.B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:Balance moi don' ce surmoi incongru aux orties.B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:La psychanalyse ? Ou le conte de fée ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit: Mais je conseille aussi la lecture parrallèle de "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" de Bruno Betheleim.
Oui, ça doit être trés intéressant. Mais j'ai un peu peur que çe soit hors-sujet.
Les deux.
La psychanalyse, on a vu ce que ça donne quand tu te laches avec sur Starwars, hein.

t'es american citizen ? Et sinon, en France, t'en penses quoi de la sureté nationale qui n'est pas censée exister ?B.Verkiler a écrit:Et sinon, à part ta psychanlyse, une explication à ce drôle de phénomène qui consiste à mettre les citoyens sur écoute à grande échelle en vue de lutter contre le terrorisme (je suppose que c'est pour ça, quoi d'autre dans le pays des libertés ?) et ce alors même que le gouvernement américain n'a pas encore pris conscience du risque terroriste, puisque le 11/09 qui leur ouvrira les yeux n'a pas encore eu lieu ?

von Rauffenstein a écrit:t'es american citizen ?B.Verkiler a écrit:Et sinon, à part ta psychanlyse, une explication à ce drôle de phénomène qui consiste à mettre les citoyens sur écoute à grande échelle en vue de lutter contre le terrorisme (je suppose que c'est pour ça, quoi d'autre dans le pays des libertés ?) et ce alors même que le gouvernement américain n'a pas encore pris conscience du risque terroriste, puisque le 11/09 qui leur ouvrira les yeux n'a pas encore eu lieu ?
Et sinon, en France, t'en penses quoi de la sureté nationale qui n'est pas censée exister ?
Bin tu critiques qui tout l'temps ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:t'es american citizen ?B.Verkiler a écrit:Et sinon, à part ta psychanlyse, une explication à ce drôle de phénomène qui consiste à mettre les citoyens sur écoute à grande échelle en vue de lutter contre le terrorisme (je suppose que c'est pour ça, quoi d'autre dans le pays des libertés ?) et ce alors même que le gouvernement américain n'a pas encore pris conscience du risque terroriste, puisque le 11/09 qui leur ouvrira les yeux n'a pas encore eu lieu ?
Quel rapport ?
Bin ouais...Et sinon, en France, t'en penses quoi de la sureté nationale qui n'est pas censée exister ?
Elle me protège des terroristes depuis le 11 septembre 2001. J'ai bon ?

von Rauffenstein a écrit:Bin tu critiques qui tout l'temps ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:t'es american citizen ?B.Verkiler a écrit:Et sinon, à part ta psychanlyse, une explication à ce drôle de phénomène qui consiste à mettre les citoyens sur écoute à grande échelle en vue de lutter contre le terrorisme (je suppose que c'est pour ça, quoi d'autre dans le pays des libertés ?) et ce alors même que le gouvernement américain n'a pas encore pris conscience du risque terroriste, puisque le 11/09 qui leur ouvrira les yeux n'a pas encore eu lieu ?
Quel rapport ?
Mais sur le fond, on pourrait être bien d'accord. Simplement, les muzzies, y m'cassent les couilles gravos maint'nant. Stout. Qu'on les nuke et qu'y nous foutent la paix une bonne fois pour toute.B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:Bin tu critiques qui tout l'temps ?B.Verkiler a écrit:von Rauffenstein a écrit:t'es american citizen ?B.Verkiler a écrit:Et sinon, à part ta psychanlyse, une explication à ce drôle de phénomène qui consiste à mettre les citoyens sur écoute à grande échelle en vue de lutter contre le terrorisme (je suppose que c'est pour ça, quoi d'autre dans le pays des libertés ?) et ce alors même que le gouvernement américain n'a pas encore pris conscience du risque terroriste, puisque le 11/09 qui leur ouvrira les yeux n'a pas encore eu lieu ?
Quel rapport ?
Probablement parce que je ne refuse pas de me poser les questions que toi tu refuses absolument de te poser. Alors je répète la question.


Some day all of us have to give an account before God for what we have done. Are you certain in your own heart that when you come to that point of accounting that you’ll spend eternity with God in Heaven?
No question.
One day when you stand before God, if He says to you, “Why should I let you into my Heaven?” What you would say in response?
That’s an interesting question. Because I loved Your Son and because I know He died for my sins. I know He was resurrected at Your right hand and I served Him. You know we’re covered with, our sins are covered with His blood and so we are blameless before Him. We are as white as snow.
What role do you think people of faith should play in politics and government?
The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.
"God is the one who chooses our rulers"
That's funny, I thought it was Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court who chose...
I think she's right. But she needs to just stop at "Separation of church and state is a lie." The rest of her speak is batshit lunacy. I think the Bush administration has made it quite clear that we are all to live by the morals and principles of the Holy Bible. Thank you George. I appreciate it when fascist rulers dictate what moral guiding principles their constituency should adhere to, because we're too dumb to think for ourselves.
I'm actually curious about the answer you would give to the following 3 questions.
1. What is freedom?
2. Is Christian Theology / Dogma / people agaist that version of freedom
3. If yes, What would freedom have to be and/or what would Christian Theology / Dogma / people be in order to be pro Freedom / pro Christian.
Liberation a écrit:Bush reconnait l'existence de prisons secrètes de la CIA à l'étranger
Par F. Ro.
LIBERATION.FR : Mercredi 6 septembre 2006 - 20:39
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C'est une première. Jusque-là, George W Bush avait tout démenti. En bloc.
Mercredi soir, pourtant, pour la première fois, le président américain a reconnu que des étrangers soupçonnés de terrorisme avaient été détenus en dehors des Etats-Unis par des agents de la CIA.
Allant encore plus loin, à quelques jours du cinquième anniversaire du 11 septembre, Bush a même défendu ce programme de la CIA visant à interroger des suspects, estimant qu'il s'agissait d'une source capitale de renseignements.
«Notre sécurité dépend de notre faculté à obtenir ce genre de renseignements» a déclaré Bush.
Le programme de la CIA avait été révélé l'année dernière par le Washington Post, et avait soulevé un tollé international contre l'administration Bush, laquelle n'avait jamais reconnu officiellement l'existence de tels centres de détention secrets. Une enquête européenne avait démontré que certains des prisonniers interrogés par la CIA avaient transité par plusieurs villes européennes. Et l'existence de prisons secrètes dans l'ex bloc de l'Est avait été évoquée.
Le Figaro a écrit:Bush reconnaît l’existence des prisons secrètes de la CIA
lefigaro.fr (avec AFP, AP, Reuters).
Publié le 06 septembre 2006
Actualisé le 06 septembre 2006 : 20h45
Le président américain a justifié mercredi soir le «programme» des prisons secrètes par les nécessités de la «guerre contre le terrorisme». 14 prisonniers détenus par la CIA ont été transférés à Guantanamo dans l’attente de leur jugement. Parmi eux, Khalid Cheik Mohammed, le «cerveau» des attentats du 11 septembre.
Changement de cap. Lors d’un discours mercredi devant plusieurs familles de victimes des attentats du 11 septembre, George Bush a annoncé plusieurs modifications majeures de sa politique concernant les prisonniers capturés dans le cadre de la «guerre contre le terrorisme».
Pour la première fois, le président américain a reconnu que certains suspects ont été détenus et interrogés à l’étranger par la CIA. L’information, révélée par la presse américaine, était jusqu’ici niée par la Maison Blanche. Bush a justifié ce «programme», réservé à «un petit nombre» de détenus de valeur, expliquant qu’«il a été nécessaire de déplacer ces individus dans un environnement où ils pouvaient être tenus au secret, interrogés par des spécialistes et, le cas échéant, poursuivi pour leurs actes terroristes ».
A l’appui, il a cité des cas où les aveux d’un terroriste présumé avaient permis d’empêcher un attentat. Quatorze de ces prisonniers, parmi lesquels Khalid Cheik Mohammed, le «cerveau» des attentats du 11 septembre, «affronteront» la justice. Ils ont été transférés à la prison de Guantanamo dans l’attente de leur procès, devant des «tribunaux militaires».
Le Pentagone appliquera la Convention de Genève pour les prisonniers soupçonnés de terrorisme
George Bush a également martelé que les Etats-Unis «ne pratiquaient pas la torture et ne la pratiqueraient jamais». Plus tôt dans la journée, le Pentagone avait annoncé qu’il appliquerait désormais l’article 3 de la Convention de Genève. Ce texte proscrit toute torture ou mauvais traitement à l’égard d’un prisonnier. «Tous les détenus devront être traités humainement et en accord avec les lois américaines, les lois de la guerre», affirme la directive, signée par le numéro deux du Pentagone, Gordon England.
Cette décision constitue un changement majeur de la politique appliquée depuis 2002. George Bush avait alors qualifié les membres d’al-Qaida et autres détenus soupçonnés de terrorisme d’ «combattants ennemis» ne bénéficiant pas de la protection de la Convention de Genève. Toutefois, comme l’a précisé le ministère américain de la Défense, la nouvelle directive ne s'applique qu’aux prisonniers sous la responsabilité du Pentagone. En clair, elle ne concerne pas les détenus interrogés par des agents de la CIA à l'étranger.
New York Times a écrit:President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantánamo
David Scull for The New York Times
President Bush urged Congress to pass legislation that would authorize new military commissions to put terrorism suspects on trial, to replace rules struck down by the Supreme Court.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: September 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — President Bush said Wednesday that 14 high-profile terror suspects held secretly until now by the Central Intelligence Agency — including the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks — had been transferred to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to face military tribunals if Congress approves.
The suspects include Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, thought to be the Sept. 11 mastermind, and other close associates of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Bush said he had decided to “bring them into the open” after years in which the C.I.A. held them without charges in undisclosed sites abroad, in a program the White House had not previously acknowledged.
The announcement, in the East Room of the White House, was the first time the president had discussed the secret C.I.A. program, and he made clear that he had fully authorized it. Mr. Bush defended the treatment the suspects had received but would not say where the so-called “high-value terrorist detainees” had been held or what techniques had been used to extract information from them.
The transfer of the high-level suspects to Guantánamo Bay effectively suspended the extraordinary program, in which the intelligence agency became the jailer and interrogator of suspects counterterrorism officials considered the world’s most wanted Islamic extremists.
The government says the 14 terror suspects include some of the most senior members of Al Qaeda captured by the United States since 2001, including those responsible for the bombing of the destroyer Cole in 2000 in Yemen and the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Most of the detainees have been interviewed extensively and are believed to have little remaining intelligence value.
With the transfer of the suspects to Guantánamo, which is run by the Defense Department, the International Committee of the Red Cross will monitor their treatment, Mr. Bush said. He used the East Room appearance to urge Congress to authorize new military commissions to put terror suspects on trial, replacing rules established by the administration but struck down in June by the Supreme Court. [Page A21.]
“As soon as Congress acts to authorize the military commissions I have proposed, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, can face justice,” Mr. Bush said, to an audience that included family members of the victims. He added, “To start the process for bringing them to trial, we must bring them out into the open.”
To that end, the president sent Congress legislation proposing new rules for the commissions and detailing specific standards for the humane treatment of detainees. Yet the proposal hews closely to the old commission model, and it retains several provisions the court found troublesome, including language that permits defendants to be excluded from their own trials.
At the same time, the Pentagon released a new Army Field Manual that lays out permissible interrogation techniques and specifically bans eight methods that have come up in abuse cases. Among the techniques banned is water-boarding, in which a wet rag is forced down a bound prisoner’s throat to cause gagging; intelligence officials have said Mr. Mohammed was subjected to that treatment while in C.I.A. custody.
Although the C.I.A. has faced criticism over the use of harsh techniques, one senior intelligence official said detainees had not been mistreated. They were given dental and vision care as well as the Koran, prayer rugs and clocks to schedule prayers, the official said. They were also given reading material, DVD’s and access to exercise equipment.
Administration officials said the timing of Mr. Bush’s decision to bring the terror suspects to trial was driven not by politics but by the need to respond to the Supreme Court’s decision and the fact that the suspects were no longer regarded as sources of valuable intelligence.
On Capitol Hill, some Republicans reacted warily. But even those who criticized the proposal said it was imperative for Congress to pass legislation setting up tribunals soon.
“I do not believe it is necessary to have a trial where the accused cannot see the evidence against them,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, a former military prosecutor who has played a central role in the debate. But Mr. Graham said he believed his differences with the White House “can be overcome.”
Mr. Bush’s speech was the third in a series he is delivering on the war on terror in the days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and it carried potential political benefits for a White House that is intent on maintaining Republican control of Congress this November.
The address helped put a face on the enemy, reminding Americans that while Osama bin Laden — to whom Mr. Bush referred repeatedly in a speech on Tuesday — is still at large, many terrorists have been captured. Five years after the attacks, Mr. Bush gave the families of Sept. 11 victims something to cheer about, and those in the audience did, as he announced he wanted to put the suspects on trial.
By moving the high-profile suspects to Guantánamo just two months before the midterm elections, the administration is putting intense pressure on lawmakers to act before adjourning to campaign. If Democrats try to thwart legislation to try senior members of Al Qaeda, they will risk being labeled weak on national security, a label they can ill afford in an election that may turn on the question of which party is better suited to keep Americans safe.
“This is certainly a logical and very sound step both substantively and politically,” said David Rivkin, who served in the White House counsel’s office under the first President Bush and is sympathetic to this administration’s approach. “It’s reminding the country and the world of the folks we are fighting against. Nobody can say these are just pitiful foot soldiers; these are pretty senior guys.”
The C.I.A. program, though officially a secret, has been the subject of numerous news reports in recent months. By speaking publicly about it for the first time, Mr. Bush hopes to build support for it on Capitol Hill, and in the public.
The White House released biographies of the 14 suspects and details of the accusations against them. They include such well-known Qaeda operatives as Abu Zubaydah, who the administration said was trying to organize a terrorist attack in Israel at the time of his capture, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who the authorities say helped facilitate the Sept. 11 attacks.
Despite the new information, human rights organizations were critical of Mr. Bush’s announcement.
“It’s wonderful that at last the United States has acknowledged that these detention sites exist,” said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A. But Mr. Cox described the program as “a form of torture,” and said the United States should suspend it.
In his speech, Mr. Bush fiercely resisted that characterization. “I want to be absolutely clear with our people, and the world,” he said. “The United States does not torture. It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values. I have not authorized it — and I will not authorize it.”
A senior intelligence official said there had been fewer than 100 detainees in the C.I.A. program since its inception shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Beyond the 14, the remainder have either been turned over to the Defense Department as so-called unlawful enemy combatants, returned to their countries of origin or sent to nations that have legal proceedings against them.
The official described the C.I.A. detainees as the government’s “single largest source of insight into Al Qaeda,” saying they accounted for 50 percent of everything the authorities had learned about the terrorist network. But, he said, “Some of these people have been held for a considerable period of time, and their intelligence value has aged off.”
Mr. Bush said the C.I.A. would not relinquish its capability to detain and question terrorism suspects, and the senior intelligence official said the administration intended that the program would continue. But agency officials — who feared employees might be subject to lawsuits or criminal prosecution — welcomed the hand-off of the detainees and the prospect that the C.I.A.’s role would be limited in future cases.
“I am confident that this will be greeted with relief by agency employees,” said Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general counsel for the C.I.A. “Many of them were uncomfortable with their role as jailers.”
Military justice experts say that if Congress passes the legislation, trials of some terror suspects at Guantánamo could begin relatively quickly, in three to four months. But the trials of the 14 high-value suspects, who are held in a special high-security facility separate from other detainees, might not begin for at least a year, because the government would have to build its case .
One expert who has been critical of the administration’s plan, Eugene R. Fidell, predicted that the proposal would attract a lawsuit.
“Going the way they have done this is in fact quite unfair to the very families of 9/11 victims who President Bush had at his meeting today,” Mr. Fidell said, “because those people need closure and in fact what he’s done is guarantee further protracted delay because of the inevitable litigation.”
On Capitol Hill, Democrats were also critical. Representative Jane Harman of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Mr. Bush should have disclosed the program years ago and called his speech “the opening salvo in the fall campaign.”
David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting for this article.
Washington Post a écrit:Bush Says Detainees Will Be Tried
He Confirms Existence of CIA Prisons
By R. Jeffrey Smith and Michael Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 7, 2006; A01
President Bush yesterday announced the transfer of the last 14 suspected terrorists held by the CIA at secret foreign prisons to the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said he wants to try them before U.S. military panels under proposed new rules he simultaneously sent to Congress.
Bush's statement during an impassioned East Room speech represented the first time he has confirmed the existence of the CIA program under which Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and others have been secretly held and subjected to irregular interrogation methods.
The president's dramatic speech committed Washington to putting senior al-Qaeda members -- including some believed to be the architects of the attacks -- on trial in proceedings that may be at least partly open. Only one person, Zacarias Moussaoui, has been convicted of conspiring in the attacks, and he had little to do with the actual plot.
Standing before an audience that included family members of attack victims, Bush delivered remarks timed to stake out a new policy position before the November elections -- and also to pressure lawmakers to approve quickly the administration's version of legislation on detainee matters that have been hotly debated for years.
Bush largely defended his administration's controversial detainee policies. But he spoke on the same day that the Defense Department, under pressure from Congress and the Supreme Court, separately ruled out the military's future use of interrogation methods that officials have said were practiced on the CIA's detainees -- including the use of temperature extremes and waterboarding, which simulates drowning.
Together with the emptying of the secret CIA sites, the imposition of the new interrogation rules amounted to a policy shift for the White House. The administration has come under substantial foreign and judicial criticism for insisting on the right to hold detainees at will and to subject them to interrogations that international experts have repeatedly called abusive and illegal.
But Bush also said he wants the CIA in the future to have the authority to question terrorists under a program separate from the military's that would not be subject to the interrogation rules the administration put forward yesterday. Several human rights groups criticized this proposed exemption, even as they hailed the new rules.
Retired Brig. Gen. Stephen N. Xenakis, an adviser to Physicians for Human Rights, said he is "proud to see the U.S. military adopt standards by which we would want our own soldiers to be treated, but it is profoundly disappointing that the President continues to insist on a parallel, clandestine interrogation system in absolute conflict with our laws and values."
Other aspects of the new administration policy provoked immediate controversy. The 86-page draft law on the new military courts, called "commissions," that Bush sent to Capitol Hill would allow defendants to be prosecuted with evidence they are not permitted to see, as well as evidence obtained through coercive interrogations that fall short of torture.
Human rights experts and uniformed military lawyers have criticized both provisions, arguing that they set a dangerous precedent for foreign trials of captured U.S. military personnel. Three influential Republican senators -- John W. Warner (Va.), John McCain (Ariz.), and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) -- have drafted competing legislation that gives defendants access to the evidence against them and provides other rights that Bush opposes.
But Bush's push yesterday produced political gains among other Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who earlier said he was considering bringing the bill drafted by his colleagues to the floor next week, shifted ground yesterday and said he will instead soon bring the administration's version to the floor.
In his speech, Bush endorsed controversial legislation that would exempt U.S. officials and CIA officers from prosecution for some past detainee abuse. He called "unacceptable" provisions in a 10-year-old U.S. law on war crimes that subjects officials to possible prosecution for humiliating or degrading detainees.
In some cases, Bush said, "it has been necessary to move . . . individuals to an environment where they can be held secretly, questioned by experts and when appropriate, prosecuted for terrorist acts." He did not say where the secret prisons were located, but said they were "outside the United States."
The Washington Post has withheld the names of several Eastern Europe countries involved in the effort since it first reported last November that secret prisons were established in eight nations, a disclosure that was heavily criticized at the time by Republican lawmakers.
Bush confirmed that among those held at these sites were Abu Zubaida, an associate of Osama bin Laden who allegedly helped train the Sept. 11 hijackers; Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks; and an alleged high-level accomplice, Ramzi Binalshibh.
Bush said the CIA had used an "alternative set of procedures" to question the men because they were trained to resist interrogations, and that these procedures -- which he did not detail -- had borne fruit.
About 100 detainees have been held at the secret prisons at various times, many of whom were transferred months ago to Guantanamo Bay or their native countries, a senior U.S. official said yesterday. Bush said none remains after the "current transfers."
Sources have said that besides waterboarding and temperature extremes, the techniques included the repeated use of sleep deprivation and restricted diets beyond what is authorized under military rules. They also have said that -- contrary to international agreements governing prisoners in wartime -- the CIA's detainees were not allowed contact with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
At Guantanamo Bay, officials said, the 14 suspects will be allowed regular visits from the Red Cross, provided lawyers when they are charged and receive the same medical care afforded the U.S. military personnel guarding them.
Bush said that "by giving us information about terrorist plans we could not get anywhere else, this program has saved lives."
But an hour before Bush spoke, two senior military officers gave a different account of the efficacy of using such rough interrogation methods. Lt. Gen. John F. Kimmons, Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said in briefing reporters at the Pentagon on the military's new interrogation rules that "no good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices. I think the empirical evidence of the last five years, hard years, tell us that."
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles "Cully" Stimson said interrogators "tell you that the intelligence they get from detainees is best derived through a period of rapport-building, long-term."
Administration officials did not acknowledge any political calculation in yesterday's surprising announcement, saying that it was prompted by the need to bring the terrorism suspects to justice and by the reality that they have lost value as sources because they have been detained for so long. They also said Supreme Court's June decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which put the detainees under the protections of the Geneva Conventions, forced their hand.
"There are two reasons why I'm making these limited disclosures today," Bush said. "First, we have largely completed our questioning of the men -- and to start the process for bringing them to trial, we must bring them into the open. Second, the Supreme Court's recent decision has impaired our ability to prosecute terrorists through military commissions, and has put in question the future of the CIA program."
A senior administration official said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, recognizing pressure from European allies, was among those pushing for the administration to acknowledge the CIA program and to put it on sustainable legal footing.
"The program was extremely beneficial. But as time passed, the costs became more and more apparent," the official said on the condition of anonymity because of sensitivities about internal deliberations. "We concluded that the program needs to continue, but in a different way that was sustainable."
The year-long effort often pitted Rice and two of her closest aides -- legal adviser John B. Bellinger III and counselor Philip D. Zelikow, against Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington, according to officials close to the process.
Bush, who was hearing complaints from foreign leaders, pressed for options that would allow him to make a decision. The CIA supported the effort because its officials have worried about being accused of making detainees permanently disappear.
Leading Democrats reacted cautiously to Bush's speech, saying that they have always been in favor of trying terrorism suspects. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called the decision to prosecute the alleged masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks "long overdue" and said he backs an effort by Senate lawmakers to write the rules for the trials.
Staff writer Glenn Kessler and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
Dear Senator McCain,
I just returned to town and learned about the debate taking place in Congress to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture which I supported last year.
I have read the powerful and eloquent letter sent to you by one my [sic] distinguished predecessors as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Jack Vessey. I fully endorse in tone and tint his powerful argument. The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.
I am as familiar with The Armed Forces Officer as is Jack Vessey. It was written after all the horrors of World War II and General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of Defense, used it to tell the world and to remind our soldiers of our moral obligations with respect to those in our custody.
Sincerely,
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Ze a écrit:Cool, ils vont reintégrer le supplice de la roue

We Won! We're Marching!
When the NYPD told us there would be no marches in the vicinity of the UN that day, we announced that we would march anyway, even if it meant we went to jail. We have just learned that we are being given a permit for a march and rally that morning to call for an end to the war in Iraq.
Hugues a écrit:Certes, mais bon c'était pas tellement l'objet de mon post, plutôt que même Powell, suffisamment fidèle de Bush pour avoir été jusqu'à remettre sa crédibilité en cause par sa fameuse intervention à l'ONU en 2003, n'arrive plus à cautionner la politique de l'administration Bush..
Hugues

Hugues a écrit:Par ailleurs sur un plan plus anecdotique, le Washington Post indique que la CIA savait dès 2002 que Ben Laden n'avait aucun lien avec l'Irak, et en avait informé le président
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01545.html
Cela n'avait pas empêché Bush pourtant de prononcer quelques jours plus tard, le 25 septembre 2002, les mots suivants:
"Al-Qaeda se cache. Saddam ne se cache pas, mais le danger est, est qu'ils travaillent de concert. Le danger est, est qu'al-Qaeda devienne une extension de la folie de Saddam et sa haine et sa capacité à diffuser les armes de destructions massives tout autour du monde... On ne peut distinguer al-Qaeda et Saddam quand on parle de la guerre contre le terrorisme."
A propos de ce gigantesque mensonge justement, pour le moment 38 membres de la chambre des Représentants soutiennent la loi d'impeachment (qui est une loi d'inculpation, de mise en examen, Clinton a été empêché, pourtant il n'a pas été condamné) dénonçant ce mensonge:
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel ... entid=3906
Enfin, lors de sa venue au Nations Unies, le 19 septembre, NYPD, la police de New York a surprenamment décidé, de changer d'avis et de ne pas protéger les Nations Unies en interdisant la marche vers le batiment international. La marche est donc autorisée.We Won! We're Marching!
When the NYPD told us there would be no marches in the vicinity of the UN that day, we announced that we would march anyway, even if it meant we went to jail. We have just learned that we are being given a permit for a march and rally that morning to call for an end to the war in Iraq.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
Hugues

Donald Rumsfeld via DefenseLink.mil a écrit:SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The fact of the matter is - if Saddam Hussein were still in power in Iraq, he would be rolling in petrol dollars. Think of the price of oil today. He would have so much money. And he would be seeing the Iranians interested in a nuclear program, he would be seeing the North Koreans developing a nuclear program, and he’d say well why shouldn’t he - and he would. So we’re fortunate that he’s gone.
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