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In December 2014, the government declassified and released the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program. Among other things, it...
Mr. Bado arrived here as a political asylum-seeker from Burkina Faso after being prosecuted and tortured there for his political and religious beliefs. He was accused of misdemeanor sexual assault (...
In November 2014, Prince Jones was convicted for rape and robbery. To apprehend Mr. Jones, police used a “StingRay,” a device that captures a cellphone’s signal and measures the time it takes to communicate...
This Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks records related to the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism (“CVE”) program -- an expanding set of measures about which little has been publicly...
