Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014.  Center for American Progress Vice President for National Security and International Policy Vikram Singh issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its long-awaited report on the use of torture by the CIA after 9/11: We commend Sen. Feinstein and[Read More…]

New York –(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2014. Based on early reports on the release of the executive summary and the conclusions and findings of the Senate inquiry into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy issued the statement below. Attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014.  In response to the release today of a declassified version of the summary and findings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on CIA detention and interrogation, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, Steven W. Hawkins, issued the following statement: “Today’s release once again makes crystal[Read More…]

UK–(ENEWSPF)–9 December 2014.  Commenting on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture, Clare Algar, Executive Director at international human rights NGO Reprieve said: “This is a good start, but it is far from the whole picture.  The names of many victims of rendition and torture are absent – not[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014.  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today released the executive summary and findings of its landmark report on the CIA’s rendition, secret detention, and torture program. The full report was adopted in December 2012 by a bipartisan majority of the committee after nearly five years of[Read More…]

New York –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2014.  In response to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s call today that Governor Andrew Cuomo grant him the power to investigate in instances of police shootings of unarmed civilians, Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), issued the following statement:[Read More…]

  FINLAND, Minn. –-(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2014.  Today eight voters and the Yes on Measure 92 campaign to pass a mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling law, sued to require to the state to count about 4600 votes that the campaign alleges were illegally tossed out. The suit, filed in the Circuit[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 8, 2014. University of Chicago Law Professor Craig Futterman and writer Jamie Kalven issued a statement today calling on the City of Chicago to release video footage of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old black youth, on October 20. On the basis of their investigation of the[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—December 8, 2014. On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict an NYPD officer who used an illegal chokehold on unarmed Eric Garner, leading to his death. Two weeks ago, twelve-year old Tamir Rice, was fatally shot in a two-second encounter with Cleveland police. Both follow several instances[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2014.  The U.S. Department of Justice released a revised version of its Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, today. The initial Justice Department guidance was issued in 2003 by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The Ashcroft Guidance banned racial profiling, but contained gaping loopholes[Read More…]