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Renditions and Secret Prisons
There is no doubt that the murkiest corner of the shadow war on terrorism has been the CIA's kidnapping suspected terrorists and shipping them to secret prisons around the globe--where obeying the Geneva Conventions is more an exception than the rule--a practice known as rendition. Unfortunately, some...
Cell-phone access can mean chaos. Brazilian officials say cell phones are used to organize and plan widespread riots that are endemic to their crowded prisons; Canadian prosecutors said a notorious drug kingpin continued business behind bars using his cell phone; and a man awaiting trial on a homicide charge...
That, Maliki said, would leave tens of thousands of Iraqi detainees in U.S.-run prisons - a not-so-subtle hint to Sunnis and Sadrists, who complain that many of their supporters are unfairly detained. And U.S. soldiers and contractors would remain immune from Iraqi law, a fact that angers Iraqis...
A few grace notes, however, begin to sound softly in her life. Her parole officer is notably sympathetic to her. Her nieces are chipper and accepting of her - and they occasionally ask her the direct questions about her past that the adults prefer not to bring up. The speechless grandfather...