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US court: CIA didn't violate Plame's speech rights

AP News 8 days ago

Appeals court backs decision barring Valerie Plame from disclosing length of CIA career A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court ...

Ex-spy Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 8 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and her publisher Simon & Schuster ...

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

AP Features 9 days ago

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Nov. 8 Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, on climate change: It's easy to see why people don't want to believe that global warming is real or that we can do anything about ...

A federal shield law

Las Vegas Sun 10 days ago

Congress should quickly pass legislation to protect freedom of the press Nearly every state, including Nevada, has a Òshield lawÓ that protects journalists from having to hand over notes, pictures, videos and the names of their sources to police and prosecutors. The ...

Under-pressure Karzai vows to tackle corruption

AFP South Asian Edition 12 days ago

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed to remove corrupt officials from government, after high-profile international criticism that graft has undermined coalition war efforts. In an interview to be broadcast Monday, Karzai told PBS that "individuals who are involved in corruption will have ...

Lithuania parliament to probe CIA jail allegations

Reuters US Online Report Top News 14 days ago

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament voted on Thursday to investigate allegations that the Baltic state hosted a secret CIA prison for al Qaeda suspects. U.S. broadcaster ABC news reported in August that Lithuania was the third European country after Poland and Romania ...

Italy convicts 23 US agents in CIA kidnapping trial

AFP Global Edition 15 days ago

An Italian judge convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, as Washington expressed dismay over the ruling. The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced Wednesday ...

CIA spy lashes out after Italian conviction

AFP American Edition 15 days ago

A CIA spy sentenced to five years in an Italian prison for her role in a US government-backed kidnapping plot admitted she "broke the law" but felt abandoned by her superiors. Sabrina DeSousa told ABC television that she and 22 other Americans ...

Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case

AP News 16 days ago

Italian judge convicts 23 Americans in absentia of kidnapping in CIA rendition of cleric An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world ...

US 'disappointed' at Italy verdict in CIA case

AFP American Edition 16 days ago

The United States said Wednesday it is "disappointed" with the convictions in Italy of 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. "We are disappointed by the verdicts against the Americans and Italians ...

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