Some agencies deem the database system so valuable they have been making deals with offenders in exchange for a DNA sample by Patrick Kollman October 22, 2009 Since its discovery a quarter century ago, the DNA fingerprint has been hailed as a pivotal tool in solving crimes and exonerating those wrongly convicted. But as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, [...]

por Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy 22 de septiembre, 2009 Si el famoso poeta italiano Dante Alighieri hubiera vivido en nuestros tiempos, no hubiera dudado un ápice en incluir a la Central de Inteligencia de los Estados Unidos en cualquiera de sus círculos del Infierno. Dentro de éstos hubieran tenido cabida, sin lugar a dudas, todos los directores [...]

by Mark Mazzetti September 1, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency’s defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations. The C.I.A.’s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration [...]

by Glenn Greenwald August 24, 2009 I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder’s decision to “review” whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects — that can be read here — but I want to write separately about the release today of the 2004 CIA’s Inspector General Report (.pdf), both because it’s [...]

Bush went away, but domestic surveillance overreach didn’t. It’s now the law, and the ACLU is fighting back

por Andy Worthington 1 de julio, 2009 En estos últimos días se ha estado discutiendo mucho acerca de la publicación, largamente esperada (y dos veces retrasada), del Informe de 2004 del Inspector General de la CIA, que, como Glenn Greenwald explicó el martes [30 de junio], “cuestiona con toda firmeza la eficacia y la legalidad” de las [...]