Swiss Senator Dick Marty, who is investigating the CIA affair for the European Council, believes recent evidence intercepted by Swiss intelligence is an 'additional indicator of the existence of secret prisons.'

http://www.watchingamerica.com/sonntagsblick000002.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Name pulled after group dissed nominee.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0602,ridgeway,71682,6.html


From Information Clearing House

During this morning’s hearing, Sen. Russ Feingold noted that the same lawyers who created the legal justifications for Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program coached Alito about how to answer questions during the confirmation hearings.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/12/alito-murder-board/


From Information Clearing House

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said US law is unclear as to whether President George W. Bush could launch a military invasion of Iran or Syria without congressional approval.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11554.htm

AS WASHINGTON steps up pressure on Iran and North Korea to abandon suspected nuclear weapons programs, US officials are completing a nuclear deal with India that critics says is a threat to non-proliferation efforts.

http://tinyurl.com/8qd9r


From Information Clearing House

"It just confirms that the policies that were adopted at Guantanamo were adopted as a matter of policy and over significant objections, not just within the FBI but within units of the Army".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11555.htm

The soul of a nation is fatally wounded

By Abid Ullah Jan

Aircraft from Afghanistan have once more attacked Pakistan killing 18 Pakistanis in remote villages. Even non-US sources, such as Al-Jazeera has adopted the tone of embedded journalists, telling the world that the US attack on Pakistan killed 18 people in “a village stronghold of pro-Taliban Islamists.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11556.htm



U.S. missiles kill 18 civilians in Pakistan:

No al-Qaeda member or foreign citizen among those who died.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/13/content_4050019.htm


From Information Clearing House

The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306Q.shtml

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=49140


Informant: NHNE