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Gordon Rayner and Duncan Gardham report in the Telegraph.co.uk that UK intelligence agencies are complaining that their officers are being diverted from intelligence work to prepare for lawsuits alleging human rights violations. One's view of this may depend on attitudes towards the alleged violations - and an assessment of the specific claims being litigated.
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From Government loses Binyam Mohamed torture appeal:
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has lost a bid to prevent the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident.
Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed says UK authorities knew he was tortured at the behest of US authorities during seven years of captivity.
Mr Miliband had said releasing the [...]
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Michael Schwirtz reported in the The New York Times of 13 October, the death of Vyacheslav K. Ivankov.Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, a Russian crime boss who survived tangles with the K.G.B., the F.B.I. and other violent criminals in a bloody career that spanned decades, was laid to rest at a Moscow cemetery. Hundreds attended the funeral.Mr. [...]
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NB: to follow this story with some nuance, readers are advised to read Trent Stamp's Take. TST is the blog of Trent Stamp (scroll down for bio), the founder of Charity Navigator. Many of comments are thoughtful and illuminating - suggesting that Stamp's created a small community with shared concerns about nonprofit governance.Link to Stamp's [...]
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This must be one of those "absent-minded" professors we're always hearing about. Because he's apparently not one of the "treehugging liberal elite," either.Celeste Monforton points out that Professor Rick Honaker of the University of Kentucky recently wrote an Op-Ed - but didn't disclose that his professorship, and his department, take money from mining interests - [...]
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Philip Rucker of the Washington Post reports that Mark Everson, late of the IRS, more recently head of the American Red Cross, has resigned. He'd only been with the Red Cross since May of this year. From Rucker's piece :American Red Cross president and chief executive Mark W. Everson resigned today because he engaged in [...]
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