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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 02:43 PM Feb 2015

TYT: Secret CIA Black Sites In American Heartland For 'Disappearing' Citizens



"Two former senior Justice Department officials are calling on their colleagues to investigate a secretive warehouse used for interrogations by Chicago police and likened to a CIA “black site” facility.

Sam Bagenstos, who during Barack Obama’s first term was the Justice Department’s No 2 civil rights official, said that the Guardian’s exposé of the Homan Square police warehouse raised concerns about “a possible pattern or practice of violations of the fourth and fifth amendments” that warranted an inquiry.

William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/25/chicago-homan-square-former-justice-officials-call-for-investigation
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TYT: Secret CIA Black Sites In American Heartland For 'Disappearing' Citizens (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2015 OP
Nothing will be done unless we do it. DeSwiss Feb 2015 #1
"we"? Could you define "we" ? uhnope Feb 2015 #4
Pinochet is smiling in his grave . He went from black sites to bodies falling from airplanes with no geretogo Feb 2015 #2
FASCISM blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #3
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
1. Nothing will be done unless we do it.
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 03:15 PM
Feb 2015

You get that? I said:

- [font size=10=]Nothing will be done unless we do it![/font]

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K&R

And if you're expecting the ''Constitutional Professor President to do something, check your pulse.....

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
2. Pinochet is smiling in his grave . He went from black sites to bodies falling from airplanes with no
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 03:28 PM
Feb 2015

parachutes .

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