Amnesty International Walk

Amnesty International North County Chapter’s 20th Anniversary & Candlelight Walk for Human Rights
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 5:30pmAt the Oceanside Amphitheater - Next to the Pier(I-5 Exit in Oceanside @ Mission Ave. - West to the end)
Featuring speakers
• REBIYA KADEER: An "adopted" Prisoner of Conscience
• BRIDGET SUHR: International Criminal Court
• PETER SCHEY: Reconciliation Process in South Africa
• Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice will receive the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Defender Award 2008 Find details at the Amnesty International web site

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CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby WarrickWashington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 15, 2008; Page A01

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency's interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.

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