News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 24 Aug 2009

Rendition of Terror Suspects Will Continue Under Obama 25 Aug 2009 The Obama administration will continue the Bush regime’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday. The administration officials, who announced the changes on condition that they not be identified, said that unlike the Bush administration, they would give the State Department a larger role in assuring that transferred detainees prisoners would not be abused. [See: Barack Obama: Change We Can Deceive In --A critique from the Left By Lori Price 19 Aug 2009.]

CIA 'threatened suspects' family' 24 Aug 2009 CIA agents threatened to kill a terror suspect's children as part of interrogation techniques, a newly declassified report has revealed. Another agent allegedly told a second suspect the man's mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him. The agent has denied the allegation. The report was made in 2004 but only a heavily censored version appeared and a judge ordered fuller disclosure.

Breaking: Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations 24 Aug 2009 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors mercenaries may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.