[124] The Parliament adopted a resolution in July 2006 endorsing the Council of Europe's conclusions, midway through its own investigation into the alleged program.[125]. “At about 3 a.m. the plane landed at Cairo. First, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, brought a sense of urgency to the interrogation of terrorism suspects, as it was feared that another attack was imminent. The American University Washington College of Law. justia. Inside a small room the detainee is waiting under armed guard, perhaps already blindfolded. [50][51][failed verification], In a number of cases, such as those of Khalid El-Masri and Maher Arar, suspects caught up in the procedure suffered lengthy detentions, despite ultimately being found innocent. The other suspected aircraft would have landed in Brest on 31 March 2002. It was estimated that more than 50 foreign governments had participated in the program to some degree. In the U.S. each twelvemonth, many of its ain native citizens are in cahoots with terrorists all over the universe. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition, CIA rendition flights stopped by Swedish military, "Kalla Facta program Part IV-"The Broken Promise, New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action, Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition, British Report Criticizes U.S. Other states seem to hold that extraordinary rendering is n’t a moral maneuver. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States", "The war against terrorism, international law and the growth of unchecked executive power in the U.S.", "Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up", "We have never been civilized: Torture and the Materiality of World Political Binaries. According to a 4 December 2005 article in The Washington Post by Dana Priest: Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs.
Zenith Radio Corporation v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. Zenith Radio Corporation v. United States, GET YOUR CUSTOM ESSAY Research by human rights groups, journalists and European governments subsequently revealed that the CIA had operated some 30 aircraft disguised by the use of companies like Premier Executive Transport Services and in other ways. [138] The New York Times reported that the 13 alleged CIA operatives were charged in indictments issued in Spain and in Munich, but because of "intense political pressure from Washington" Germany never requested their extradition. That is what happened to two Egyptian asylum seekers in Sweden on December 18, 2001, and to numerous other terrorist suspects since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted (despite previous government denials) that two U.S. extraordinary rendition flights had stopped on Diego Garcia in 2002, a U.K. That being Swedish territory, the Swedes believed they were in charge of the deportation of two men from their country. When the check had been completed, the second man was sent for and the same procedure repeated. Although it is hard to come to a cosmopolitan definition of terrorist act, it can be described as warfare affecting the usage or menace of force, typically against an influential noncombatant mark, with the thought of making fright in a wide audience ( Domestic Terrorism 1 ) . Several months before the publication of the Council of Europe report directed by Dick Marty, Gijs de Vries, the EU's antiterrorism coordinator, asserted in April 2006 that no evidence existed that extraordinary rendition had been taking place in Europe. Canadian citizen Maher Arar was born in Syria in 1970 and emigrated to Canada as a teenager, settling in Montreal. The technique was widely criticized, as prisoners were subject to indefinite imprisonment without trial and the possibility of torture, in violation of basic due process protections and international human rights law. Even before the Swedish government officially decided to return them to Egypt, a report by the Swedish ombudsman relates that the CIA offered use of an aircraft so the men could be expelled the moment a formal order was issued. 3) lowers us to the level of all those rogue and evil regimes that we have fought against in the past and against which we claim we are now struggling. Over Abduction.
[74], Khalid El-Masri (also Khaled El-Masri[75] and Khaled Masri,[76] Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈxaːlɪd elˈmɑsˤɾi, -ˈmɑsˤɾe], Arabic: خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police, and handed over to the U.S. CIA. [134][135] Spanish authorities identified the suspected CIA abduction team from hotel records after a stopover by their Boeing 737 in Palma de Mallorca. As Jeff Stein reported, CIA Assistant General Counsel Daniel Pines recently wrote a law review article asserting that the practice of extraordinary rendition, or the transfer of detainees in American custody to other nations for torturous interrogations, is legal. The Portuguese general prosecutor, Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced the opening of investigations on 5 February 2007. "[95] What they failed to recognize is they tend to make the same thing to any aliens in the United States that appear “ leery ” . “According to reports, a doctor was present in the changing room. Ralph, J. [101] On 15 September 2010 PolitiFact.com wrote about the Obama administration's record on renditions: The administration has announced new procedural safeguards concerning individuals who are sent to foreign countries. On the other hand, Dick Marty explained the difference of approach concerning terrorism between the EU and the US as following: While the states of the Old World have dealt with these threats primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems, the United States appears to have made a fundamentally different choice: considering that neither conventional judicial instruments nor those established under the framework of the laws of war could effectively counter the new forms of international terrorism, it decided to develop new legal concepts.
On 18 September 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings, entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. website.
Extraordinary rendering is normally referred to as merely a safeguard and nil more ( Extraordinary Rendition 1 ) .
A. and E.Z. The program began after the 9/11 attacks; within a week, President Bush signed a classified presidential “finding” authorizing an unprecedented range of covert operations, including capturing terrorists in foreign nations and what the Washington Post characterized as “the expenditure of vast funds to coax foreign intelligence services into a new era of cooperation with the CIA.” A portent of what was about to be unleashed came when Vice President Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. Finally loose hoods without holes for their eyes were placed over their heads. com/us/388/218/case. Egypt embraced the idea ... 'What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian,' Scheuer said. Thompson, A. C., and Trevor Paglen (2006).
[124] The Parliament adopted a resolution in July 2006 endorsing the Council of Europe's conclusions, midway through its own investigation into the alleged program.[125]. “At about 3 a.m. the plane landed at Cairo. First, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, brought a sense of urgency to the interrogation of terrorism suspects, as it was feared that another attack was imminent. The American University Washington College of Law. justia. Inside a small room the detainee is waiting under armed guard, perhaps already blindfolded. [50][51][failed verification], In a number of cases, such as those of Khalid El-Masri and Maher Arar, suspects caught up in the procedure suffered lengthy detentions, despite ultimately being found innocent. The other suspected aircraft would have landed in Brest on 31 March 2002. It was estimated that more than 50 foreign governments had participated in the program to some degree. In the U.S. each twelvemonth, many of its ain native citizens are in cahoots with terrorists all over the universe. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition, CIA rendition flights stopped by Swedish military, "Kalla Facta program Part IV-"The Broken Promise, New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action, Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition, British Report Criticizes U.S. Other states seem to hold that extraordinary rendering is n’t a moral maneuver. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States", "The war against terrorism, international law and the growth of unchecked executive power in the U.S.", "Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up", "We have never been civilized: Torture and the Materiality of World Political Binaries. According to a 4 December 2005 article in The Washington Post by Dana Priest: Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs.
Zenith Radio Corporation v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. Zenith Radio Corporation v. United States, GET YOUR CUSTOM ESSAY Research by human rights groups, journalists and European governments subsequently revealed that the CIA had operated some 30 aircraft disguised by the use of companies like Premier Executive Transport Services and in other ways. [138] The New York Times reported that the 13 alleged CIA operatives were charged in indictments issued in Spain and in Munich, but because of "intense political pressure from Washington" Germany never requested their extradition. That is what happened to two Egyptian asylum seekers in Sweden on December 18, 2001, and to numerous other terrorist suspects since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted (despite previous government denials) that two U.S. extraordinary rendition flights had stopped on Diego Garcia in 2002, a U.K. That being Swedish territory, the Swedes believed they were in charge of the deportation of two men from their country. When the check had been completed, the second man was sent for and the same procedure repeated. Although it is hard to come to a cosmopolitan definition of terrorist act, it can be described as warfare affecting the usage or menace of force, typically against an influential noncombatant mark, with the thought of making fright in a wide audience ( Domestic Terrorism 1 ) . Several months before the publication of the Council of Europe report directed by Dick Marty, Gijs de Vries, the EU's antiterrorism coordinator, asserted in April 2006 that no evidence existed that extraordinary rendition had been taking place in Europe. Canadian citizen Maher Arar was born in Syria in 1970 and emigrated to Canada as a teenager, settling in Montreal. The technique was widely criticized, as prisoners were subject to indefinite imprisonment without trial and the possibility of torture, in violation of basic due process protections and international human rights law. Even before the Swedish government officially decided to return them to Egypt, a report by the Swedish ombudsman relates that the CIA offered use of an aircraft so the men could be expelled the moment a formal order was issued. 3) lowers us to the level of all those rogue and evil regimes that we have fought against in the past and against which we claim we are now struggling. Over Abduction.
[74], Khalid El-Masri (also Khaled El-Masri[75] and Khaled Masri,[76] Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈxaːlɪd elˈmɑsˤɾi, -ˈmɑsˤɾe], Arabic: خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police, and handed over to the U.S. CIA. [134][135] Spanish authorities identified the suspected CIA abduction team from hotel records after a stopover by their Boeing 737 in Palma de Mallorca. As Jeff Stein reported, CIA Assistant General Counsel Daniel Pines recently wrote a law review article asserting that the practice of extraordinary rendition, or the transfer of detainees in American custody to other nations for torturous interrogations, is legal. The Portuguese general prosecutor, Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced the opening of investigations on 5 February 2007. "[95] What they failed to recognize is they tend to make the same thing to any aliens in the United States that appear “ leery ” . “According to reports, a doctor was present in the changing room. Ralph, J. [101] On 15 September 2010 PolitiFact.com wrote about the Obama administration's record on renditions: The administration has announced new procedural safeguards concerning individuals who are sent to foreign countries. On the other hand, Dick Marty explained the difference of approach concerning terrorism between the EU and the US as following: While the states of the Old World have dealt with these threats primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems, the United States appears to have made a fundamentally different choice: considering that neither conventional judicial instruments nor those established under the framework of the laws of war could effectively counter the new forms of international terrorism, it decided to develop new legal concepts.
On 18 September 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings, entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. website.
Extraordinary rendering is normally referred to as merely a safeguard and nil more ( Extraordinary Rendition 1 ) .
A. and E.Z. The program began after the 9/11 attacks; within a week, President Bush signed a classified presidential “finding” authorizing an unprecedented range of covert operations, including capturing terrorists in foreign nations and what the Washington Post characterized as “the expenditure of vast funds to coax foreign intelligence services into a new era of cooperation with the CIA.” A portent of what was about to be unleashed came when Vice President Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. Finally loose hoods without holes for their eyes were placed over their heads. com/us/388/218/case. Egypt embraced the idea ... 'What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian,' Scheuer said. Thompson, A. C., and Trevor Paglen (2006).
[124] The Parliament adopted a resolution in July 2006 endorsing the Council of Europe's conclusions, midway through its own investigation into the alleged program.[125]. “At about 3 a.m. the plane landed at Cairo. First, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, brought a sense of urgency to the interrogation of terrorism suspects, as it was feared that another attack was imminent. The American University Washington College of Law. justia. Inside a small room the detainee is waiting under armed guard, perhaps already blindfolded. [50][51][failed verification], In a number of cases, such as those of Khalid El-Masri and Maher Arar, suspects caught up in the procedure suffered lengthy detentions, despite ultimately being found innocent. The other suspected aircraft would have landed in Brest on 31 March 2002. It was estimated that more than 50 foreign governments had participated in the program to some degree. In the U.S. each twelvemonth, many of its ain native citizens are in cahoots with terrorists all over the universe. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition, CIA rendition flights stopped by Swedish military, "Kalla Facta program Part IV-"The Broken Promise, New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action, Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition, British Report Criticizes U.S. Other states seem to hold that extraordinary rendering is n’t a moral maneuver. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States", "The war against terrorism, international law and the growth of unchecked executive power in the U.S.", "Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up", "We have never been civilized: Torture and the Materiality of World Political Binaries. According to a 4 December 2005 article in The Washington Post by Dana Priest: Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs.
Zenith Radio Corporation v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. Zenith Radio Corporation v. United States, GET YOUR CUSTOM ESSAY Research by human rights groups, journalists and European governments subsequently revealed that the CIA had operated some 30 aircraft disguised by the use of companies like Premier Executive Transport Services and in other ways. [138] The New York Times reported that the 13 alleged CIA operatives were charged in indictments issued in Spain and in Munich, but because of "intense political pressure from Washington" Germany never requested their extradition. That is what happened to two Egyptian asylum seekers in Sweden on December 18, 2001, and to numerous other terrorist suspects since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted (despite previous government denials) that two U.S. extraordinary rendition flights had stopped on Diego Garcia in 2002, a U.K. That being Swedish territory, the Swedes believed they were in charge of the deportation of two men from their country. When the check had been completed, the second man was sent for and the same procedure repeated. Although it is hard to come to a cosmopolitan definition of terrorist act, it can be described as warfare affecting the usage or menace of force, typically against an influential noncombatant mark, with the thought of making fright in a wide audience ( Domestic Terrorism 1 ) . Several months before the publication of the Council of Europe report directed by Dick Marty, Gijs de Vries, the EU's antiterrorism coordinator, asserted in April 2006 that no evidence existed that extraordinary rendition had been taking place in Europe. Canadian citizen Maher Arar was born in Syria in 1970 and emigrated to Canada as a teenager, settling in Montreal. The technique was widely criticized, as prisoners were subject to indefinite imprisonment without trial and the possibility of torture, in violation of basic due process protections and international human rights law. Even before the Swedish government officially decided to return them to Egypt, a report by the Swedish ombudsman relates that the CIA offered use of an aircraft so the men could be expelled the moment a formal order was issued. 3) lowers us to the level of all those rogue and evil regimes that we have fought against in the past and against which we claim we are now struggling. Over Abduction.
[74], Khalid El-Masri (also Khaled El-Masri[75] and Khaled Masri,[76] Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈxaːlɪd elˈmɑsˤɾi, -ˈmɑsˤɾe], Arabic: خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police, and handed over to the U.S. CIA. [134][135] Spanish authorities identified the suspected CIA abduction team from hotel records after a stopover by their Boeing 737 in Palma de Mallorca. As Jeff Stein reported, CIA Assistant General Counsel Daniel Pines recently wrote a law review article asserting that the practice of extraordinary rendition, or the transfer of detainees in American custody to other nations for torturous interrogations, is legal. The Portuguese general prosecutor, Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced the opening of investigations on 5 February 2007. "[95] What they failed to recognize is they tend to make the same thing to any aliens in the United States that appear “ leery ” . “According to reports, a doctor was present in the changing room. Ralph, J. [101] On 15 September 2010 PolitiFact.com wrote about the Obama administration's record on renditions: The administration has announced new procedural safeguards concerning individuals who are sent to foreign countries. On the other hand, Dick Marty explained the difference of approach concerning terrorism between the EU and the US as following: While the states of the Old World have dealt with these threats primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems, the United States appears to have made a fundamentally different choice: considering that neither conventional judicial instruments nor those established under the framework of the laws of war could effectively counter the new forms of international terrorism, it decided to develop new legal concepts.
On 18 September 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings, entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. website.
Extraordinary rendering is normally referred to as merely a safeguard and nil more ( Extraordinary Rendition 1 ) .
A. and E.Z. The program began after the 9/11 attacks; within a week, President Bush signed a classified presidential “finding” authorizing an unprecedented range of covert operations, including capturing terrorists in foreign nations and what the Washington Post characterized as “the expenditure of vast funds to coax foreign intelligence services into a new era of cooperation with the CIA.” A portent of what was about to be unleashed came when Vice President Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. Finally loose hoods without holes for their eyes were placed over their heads. com/us/388/218/case. Egypt embraced the idea ... 'What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian,' Scheuer said. Thompson, A. C., and Trevor Paglen (2006).
Some bank employees identified him as the robber. Officer Y informed the American officials that A. If you want someone to disappear—never to see them again—you send them to Egypt."[55]. Robert S. Lady, the CIA's substation chief in Milan, has been implicated in the abduction. Help us change the world. Extraordinary rendition may be a new term, but it is not a new practice — the English did it in the 17th century, shipping prisoners to Scotland to be tortured. The war on terrorist act has been traveling on since the beginning of civilisation. The Berliner Zeitung reported the following day there was documentation of 85 takeoffs and landings by planes with a "high probability" of being operated by the CIA, at Ramstein, the Rhein-Main Air Base and others. The period of time an inmate may remain under SAMs depends on the time period designated by the Director, going up to one year, although the Director is also allowed, by the law, to extend the SAMs for additional 1-year periods, as long the Director receives written certifications from an intelligence agency head that there is danger of disclosure of classified information by the inmate, and therefore threatening national security (BOP, 2007). According to K.J., E.Z. What is terrorist act? The method of extraordinary rendering combines two illegal patterns to do a “ legal ” pattern. There is non ever clear grounds that the suspect is a terrorist.
[124] The Parliament adopted a resolution in July 2006 endorsing the Council of Europe's conclusions, midway through its own investigation into the alleged program.[125]. “At about 3 a.m. the plane landed at Cairo. First, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, brought a sense of urgency to the interrogation of terrorism suspects, as it was feared that another attack was imminent. The American University Washington College of Law. justia. Inside a small room the detainee is waiting under armed guard, perhaps already blindfolded. [50][51][failed verification], In a number of cases, such as those of Khalid El-Masri and Maher Arar, suspects caught up in the procedure suffered lengthy detentions, despite ultimately being found innocent. The other suspected aircraft would have landed in Brest on 31 March 2002. It was estimated that more than 50 foreign governments had participated in the program to some degree. In the U.S. each twelvemonth, many of its ain native citizens are in cahoots with terrorists all over the universe. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition, CIA rendition flights stopped by Swedish military, "Kalla Facta program Part IV-"The Broken Promise, New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action, Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition, British Report Criticizes U.S. Other states seem to hold that extraordinary rendering is n’t a moral maneuver. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States", "The war against terrorism, international law and the growth of unchecked executive power in the U.S.", "Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up", "We have never been civilized: Torture and the Materiality of World Political Binaries. According to a 4 December 2005 article in The Washington Post by Dana Priest: Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs.
Zenith Radio Corporation v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. Zenith Radio Corporation v. United States, GET YOUR CUSTOM ESSAY Research by human rights groups, journalists and European governments subsequently revealed that the CIA had operated some 30 aircraft disguised by the use of companies like Premier Executive Transport Services and in other ways. [138] The New York Times reported that the 13 alleged CIA operatives were charged in indictments issued in Spain and in Munich, but because of "intense political pressure from Washington" Germany never requested their extradition. That is what happened to two Egyptian asylum seekers in Sweden on December 18, 2001, and to numerous other terrorist suspects since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted (despite previous government denials) that two U.S. extraordinary rendition flights had stopped on Diego Garcia in 2002, a U.K. That being Swedish territory, the Swedes believed they were in charge of the deportation of two men from their country. When the check had been completed, the second man was sent for and the same procedure repeated. Although it is hard to come to a cosmopolitan definition of terrorist act, it can be described as warfare affecting the usage or menace of force, typically against an influential noncombatant mark, with the thought of making fright in a wide audience ( Domestic Terrorism 1 ) . Several months before the publication of the Council of Europe report directed by Dick Marty, Gijs de Vries, the EU's antiterrorism coordinator, asserted in April 2006 that no evidence existed that extraordinary rendition had been taking place in Europe. Canadian citizen Maher Arar was born in Syria in 1970 and emigrated to Canada as a teenager, settling in Montreal. The technique was widely criticized, as prisoners were subject to indefinite imprisonment without trial and the possibility of torture, in violation of basic due process protections and international human rights law. Even before the Swedish government officially decided to return them to Egypt, a report by the Swedish ombudsman relates that the CIA offered use of an aircraft so the men could be expelled the moment a formal order was issued. 3) lowers us to the level of all those rogue and evil regimes that we have fought against in the past and against which we claim we are now struggling. Over Abduction.
[74], Khalid El-Masri (also Khaled El-Masri[75] and Khaled Masri,[76] Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈxaːlɪd elˈmɑsˤɾi, -ˈmɑsˤɾe], Arabic: خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police, and handed over to the U.S. CIA. [134][135] Spanish authorities identified the suspected CIA abduction team from hotel records after a stopover by their Boeing 737 in Palma de Mallorca. As Jeff Stein reported, CIA Assistant General Counsel Daniel Pines recently wrote a law review article asserting that the practice of extraordinary rendition, or the transfer of detainees in American custody to other nations for torturous interrogations, is legal. The Portuguese general prosecutor, Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced the opening of investigations on 5 February 2007. "[95] What they failed to recognize is they tend to make the same thing to any aliens in the United States that appear “ leery ” . “According to reports, a doctor was present in the changing room. Ralph, J. [101] On 15 September 2010 PolitiFact.com wrote about the Obama administration's record on renditions: The administration has announced new procedural safeguards concerning individuals who are sent to foreign countries. On the other hand, Dick Marty explained the difference of approach concerning terrorism between the EU and the US as following: While the states of the Old World have dealt with these threats primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems, the United States appears to have made a fundamentally different choice: considering that neither conventional judicial instruments nor those established under the framework of the laws of war could effectively counter the new forms of international terrorism, it decided to develop new legal concepts.
On 18 September 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings, entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. website.
Extraordinary rendering is normally referred to as merely a safeguard and nil more ( Extraordinary Rendition 1 ) .
A. and E.Z. The program began after the 9/11 attacks; within a week, President Bush signed a classified presidential “finding” authorizing an unprecedented range of covert operations, including capturing terrorists in foreign nations and what the Washington Post characterized as “the expenditure of vast funds to coax foreign intelligence services into a new era of cooperation with the CIA.” A portent of what was about to be unleashed came when Vice President Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. Finally loose hoods without holes for their eyes were placed over their heads. com/us/388/218/case. Egypt embraced the idea ... 'What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian,' Scheuer said. Thompson, A. C., and Trevor Paglen (2006).