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Supreme Court upholds government's claim of secrecy in case of prisoner tortured by CIA

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday the government may invoke the "state secrets" privilege to block former U.S. contractors from testifying about the now well-known waterboarding and torture of prisoners held at CIA sites in Poland.

Los Angeles Times

Former CIA chief says Russia’s economy could collapse and Moscow scared of even opening stock exchange

‘They are in the precipice of a very very dire situation’

The Independent UK

Supreme Court Splinters Over State Secrets Privilege

Justice Breyer delivers the opinion for the Court in a heavily fractured opinion in U.S. v. Zubaydah.

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White House announces new sanctions on Russian oligarchs and Putin’s ‘cronies’ – as it happened

‘We want him to feel the squeeze,’ says press secretary Jen Psaki

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court blocks Gitmo detainee’s search for testimony about CIA torture - Roll Call

The Supreme Court has blocked testimony about CIA torture programs sought by Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah.

Roll Call

China ‘asked Russia to delay Ukraine war until after Olympics, US officials say’

China has denied the claims saying they were “intended to blame-shift” onto them

Evening Standard

China asked Russia to delay Ukraine invasion until after Olympics -NYT

Senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the New York Times reported, quoting Biden administration officials and a European official who cited a Western intelligence report.

Reuters

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Brickbats: March 2022

Norma Garcia-Lopez resigned as the co-chair of the Racial Equity Committee at Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas after media reported she doxxed several parents who challenged the school system's COVID-19 mask mandate and who spoke out against critical race theory. Garcia-Lopez posted the names, home addresses, phone numbers,…

Reason

Americans should not be concerned about potential nuclear war, Biden says – as it happened

Biden’s comments come one day after Vladimir Putin directed Russian military leaders to transfer the country’s nuclear weapons to a “special mode of combat duty”.

The Guardian - US

Russian forces appear to shift to siege warfare in Ukraine - U.S. official

Russia, frustrated by early battlefield setbacks in Ukraine, could be shifting its strategy to siege warfare just as President Vladimir Putin raises the risk of a catastrophic miscalculation by putting nuclear forces on heightened alert, a senior U.S. defense official said on Sunday.

Reuters

Trump’s Putin praise draws harsh rebuke from former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

Siding with Vladimir Putin is "the kind of stuff that can cost lives," former defense secretary says

Chicago Sun-Times

Jean Guerrero: Are electromagnetic weapons involved? Taking victims of 'Havana syndrome' seriously

The U.S. investigation into mysterious symptoms known as the "Havana syndrome" could provide Americans with long-overdue insights into the emerging threats of directed-energy devices.

Los Angeles Times

Haryana home minister Anil Vij asks Panipat SP to suspend eight cops booked in kidnapping case

AMBALA: Haryana home minister Anil Vij has instructed the Panipat superintendent of police (SP) to suspend eight police officials posted in Panipat district on Tuesday.

The Times of India

Nicholas Goldberg: What if the CIA is spying on Americans?

Last week two U.S. senators revealed that the CIA may once again be spying on Americans. But no one paid much attention.

Los Angeles Times

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The Independent UK

Why Donald Trump is once again claiming Democrats ‘spied’ on him

Ex-president and Republican allies cheer latest John Durham court filing alleging Democratic efforts to discredit his campaign in 2016 but how clear cut are the special counsel’s claims?

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How the latest Trump-Russia filing generated buzz

The latest filing from special counsel John Durham in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has been seized on by the conservative media and Donald Trump himself as vindication of the former president’s oft-repeated claims that he was “spied” on

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US Marshal Turned Real-Estate Mogul Shares Knowledge In His First Book

Antonio Buchanan's “Building Wealth Through Real Estate With AB” is a guide for both real estate and life.

The Times of India

Haryana: Mobile theft accused alleges police torture in Kurukshetra

KURUKSHETRA: The family members of a Kurukshetra resident have framed an allegation of torturing their kin against the crime investigation agency (CIA) of district police in a case related to purchasing of stolen mobile.

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Daily Mirror

Ukraine warned Russia may invade this week after 'false flag attack'

Brits and Americans have been urged to leave Ukraine immediately and the CIA has warned thousands of Russian troops could attack as early as Wednesday

Tribune News Service

US sees China watching Ukraine crisis as proxy for Taiwan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration increasingly believes that China is gauging the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis as a proxy for how America would deal with more aggressive action by Beijing against Taiwan, according to three senior officials.

The Guardian - US

Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversight

Reason

New Report Highlights an Old Problem—the CIA Is Still Snooping on Americans

In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.

The Independent UK

Senators say CIA is collecting Americans’ private data in secret bulk surveillance program

‘The secret nature of the CIA’s activities in PCLOB report raise these very concerns,’ Sens Martin Heinrich and Ron Wyden wrote.

The Guardian - US

White House confirms Biden-Putin call on Saturday – as it happened

US national security adviser urges Americans to leave Ukraine while US officials say Putin has decided to invade

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: Twenty years on, here's the legacy of American torture in the war on terror

Remember when the George W. Bush administration began sweeping up suspected terrorists and whisking them off, hooded and shackled, to offshore CIA "black sites" around the world where they were tortured into confessing to all sorts of crimes?

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