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Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records - President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. [Examiner.com]

Judge says Berlusconi can testify in CIA kidnap case - MILAN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi can be called to testify in a trial of U.S. and Italian spies who are accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, a Milan judge ruled on Wednesday. [Reuters International News]

Documents Show CIA Spying on Journalists, Including Brit Hume and Michael Getler - WASHINGTON Little-known documents made public Thursday detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago — wiretappings of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more. [Editorandpublisher.com Most Viewed]

S.J. Firm Sued Over Alleged CIA Torture Flights - CBS 5 has learned that a San Jose company accused of helping the Central Intelligence Agency torture people will be sued by the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday on behalf of three alleged victims. [cbs 5 SF Top News]

Rights group slams CIA secret prisons - The Bush administration's continued policy of using secret CIA prisons for terror suspects has come under renewed criticism by Human Rights Watch. [upi.com]

Italy Indicts 26 Americans Over CIA Kidnap - An Italian judge has indicted 26 Americans " mostly CIA agents " for the kidnap of Osama Moustafa Hassan on a street in Milan. The case stems from the broader rift over "extraordinary rendition" between Washington and Europe. [CBS World News]

Cheney admits expanded military spying role inside US - US Vice-President Dick Cheney has admitted that the US military and CIA have been spying on the financial dealings of Americans -- intelligence gathering normally authorized only by civilian policing agencies. [breitbart.com]

German tells court CIA kidnapped him - A German citizen testified Monday in a Spanish court that he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S. intelligence agents in 2003, ...

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Lawsuits proposed to aid detainees in secret jails - Deborah Pearlstein, a lawyer with Human Rights First and a visiting scholar at Princeton University, said in an interview, "Human rights advocates for some time have been talking about how to resolve the legal status of the CIA-held detainees who have been effectively disappeared." [International Herald Tribune]

Italian spy director arrested over CIA kidnap - ROME (Reuters) - Police have arrested a director at Italy's military intelligence agency on suspicion of helping the CIA in the alleged kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, officials said on Wednesday. [Reuters Politics]