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The world at war: The mind, journalism, freedoms... Retired Generals and Admirals Urge President Obama to Close Guantanamo, Release Senate Report on CIA Torture

We bring to the attention of our readers the letter by 31 retired generals to President Obama. While the latter tacitly endorses the Obama administration without focusing on the illegality and criminal nature of the Guantanamo detention facility, it nonetheless constitutes a timely initiative. The letter by the 31 retired military leaders calls upon President Obama to fully cooperate with the Senate intelligence committee to declassify and publicly release the 6000-plus page study that details the post-9/11 CIA rendition, detention, and interrogation program.

The following introductory text is by Human Rights First, followed by the transcript of the Open Letter (GR Editor M.Ch.)

Washington, D.C. – Thirty-one of the nation’s most respected retired generals and admirals today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to make good on his executive order to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. They also asked that he set the record straight on torture, a policy he also banned by executive order. Members of the coalition who signed today’s letter stood behind the president on January 22, 2009 – his second day in office – when the orders were signed.

“We appreciate your leadership this past year in recommitting to closing Guantanamo,” wrote the generals and admirals. “Guantanamo does not serve America’s interests.  As long as it remains open, Guantanamo will undermine America’s security and status as a nation where human rights and the rule of law matter.”

Today’s letter comes as Congress and the Obama Administration have made progress toward putting Guantanamo on the path to closure.  In December, Congress passed its annual defense bill that replaced confusing and cumbersome foreign transfer restrictions that the Obama Administration had said complicated the transfers of detainees to their home or third countries. The administration also transferred three Uighur detainees to Slovakia, ending the detention of men whom the administration says never posed a threat to the United States, but could not be repatriated to China where they faced certain persecution as a Muslim minority in that nation.

Progress toward closing Guantanamo continued this month as the Periodic Review Board (PRB), established by executive order in March 2011, concluded its first case. It ruled that Mahmoud Abdulaziz Al-Mujahid, a Yemeni citizen, no longer poses a significant threat to U.S. national security and is now cleared for transfer. In addition, media and nongovernmental organizations have been invited to observe PRB hearings at the end of the month. Despite this progress, the pace of transfers will have to increase dramatically to achieve closing the prison by the end of President Obama’s second term.

With regard to torture, the retired military leaders urged President Obama to direct his administration, particularly the CIA, to fully cooperate with the Senate intelligence committee to declassify and publicly release the 6000-plus page study that details the post-9/11 CIA rendition, detention, and interrogation program. The report, which was adopted by the committee over a year ago, has not yet come to a vote over declassification as the intelligence committee had been unable to move forward due to lack of cooperation from the administration.

“Former CIA officials who authorized torture continue to defend it in books and film, and public opinion is with them, based on mythology, not fact,” stated the letter.

“We believe that upon reviewing the facts the American people will agree that torture was not worth it, and that we as a nation should never return to the dark side.”

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TEXT OF LETTER

January 21, 2014

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Five years ago tomorrow, members of our coalition of retired generals and admirals stood behind
you in the Oval Office when you signed three executive orders that helped put our nation’s
counterterrorism efforts on a stronger footing, consistent with our laws and values. You banned
torture, closed the CIA “black sites” where torture occurred, and put Guantanamo on the path to
closure.

We appreciate your leadership this past year in recommitting to closing Guantanamo. Congress
responded, passing an annual defense bill that provides you with substantial additional flexibility
to repatriate or resettle the 77 detainees who have been cleared for transfer by our security
agencies. We encourage your administration to transfer all cleared detainees as soon as possible
and complete administrative reviews of the remaining eligible detainees by year’s end to determine
who else might be eligible for transfer. Guantanamo does not serve America’s interests. As long
as it remains open, Guantanamo will undermine America’s security and status as a nation where
human rights and the rule of law matter.

While you have made progress on Guantanamo this past year, we are concerned about the
enduring and false debate over torture by the CIA. Former CIA officials who authorized torture
continue to defend it in books and film, and public opinion is with them, based on mythology, not
fact. The American people deserve access to the voluminous, 6000-plus page study that details the
post-9/11 CIA rendition, detention, and interrogation program, adopted by the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. We call on you to direct your administration, including the CIA, to
fully cooperate with the committee to declassify with minimal redaction and publicly release the
study. We believe that upon reviewing the facts the American people will agree that torture was
not worth it, and that we as a nation should never return to the dark side.

 We thank you for your steadfast commitment to these issues at the heart of our national security
and values, and stand ready to assist in any way that we can.

Sincerely,

General Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.)
General Charles C. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)
General David M. Maddox, USA (Ret.)
General Merrill A. McPeak, USAF (Ret.)
General William G. T. Tuttle, Jr., USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant General Robert G. Gard, Jr., USA (Ret.)
Vice Admiral Lee F. Gunn, USN (Ret.)
Lieutenant General Arlen D. Jameson, USAF (Ret.)
Lieutenant General Charles Otstott, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant General Keith J. Stalder, USMC (Ret.)
Major General Paul D. Eaton, USA (Ret.)
Major General Eugene Fox, USA (Ret.)
Rear Admiral Donald Guter, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Major General Michael R. Lehnert, USMC (Ret.)
Major General Melvyn S. Montano, USAF (Ret.)
Major General William L. Nash, USA (Ret.)
Major General Thomas J. Romig, USA (Ret.)
Major General Walter L. Stewart, Jr., USA (Ret.)
Major General Antonio M. Taguba, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General John Adams, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General David M. Brahms, USMC (Ret.)
Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.)
Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General Dennis P. Geoghan, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General David R. Irvine, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General John H. Johns, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr, CSMR (Ret.)
Brigadier General Richard O’Meara, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General Murray G. Sagsveen, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General Anthony Verrengia, USAF (Ret.)

Brigadier General Stephen N. Xenakis, USA (Ret.)

URL of Letter http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/uploads/pdfs/Executive-Order-Letter-Jan-2014.pdf

For more information or to speak with any of the signatories of today’s letter, contact Corinne Duffy at [email protected] or 202-370-3319.

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Feds Set To ‘Release’ 2,300 Workers From Nation’s Most Contaminated Nuclear Site

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by Mikael Thalen
October 16th, 2013
Updated 10/16/2013 at 8:30 am

Federal government contractors at Washington state’s Hanford nuclear site are preparing to leave this week, following the decision to release 2,300 workers due to the government shutdown.

Workers were informed Tuesday that they would not be furloughed or laid off, but “released from work until further notice” beginning Friday. The Department of Energy has ordered the employees to create a contingency plan that lays out how the site will operate during their absence.

The work force will be stripped down to its bare minimum, allegedly enough to keep the area safe while discarding daily maintenance and environmental employees who work to clean Hanford, the nations most contaminated nuclear site.

According to reports from King 5 News, Hanford workers were told that even if a deal is reached in D.C. before Friday, the release would still last one or two weeks, given the amount of time it would take for the federal government to deposit the contractors’ pay.

Workers not only expressed their concern over lost wages, but also noted the inherent danger in removing so many workers from a site containing over 53 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste, two-thirds of all nuclear waste in the country.

“Why isn’t there any appropriated money… because of the greedy, selfish, (politicians) in Washington DC. This isn’t good news for anyone and hopefully this exercise in greed won’t happen at all,” said a Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council representative.

An anonymous worker expressed concern over the tank farm exhausters, which release flammable chemical vapors from underground radioactive waste tanks. If the tank’s vents malfunction, a gas buildup could result in a hydrogen explosion.

“If there’s a major problem, they won’t have the right staffing to deal with it. If there’s a major equipment failure, like an exhauster going down, we won’t have the staffing to handle it,” said the worker.

Travis Couture, candidate for Washington state Senate and former Nuclear Submarine Mechanic, told Storyleak that the situation is a perfect example of the federal government’s refusal to accept responsibility for the problems it creates.

“The lack of leadership in regards to the Hanford Nuclear waste site is astounding. A leak in this site was known to be a great possibility a long time before it happened and in true government fashion nothing was done to prevent it or slow it down,” Couture said.

“Now with the Government shutdown battle ensuing, congress and the president are more worried about spending money to frivolously shut down the view to Mount Rushmore than they are with cleaning up their mess in our state. The WA St. Attorney General and the Governor need to hold their pals in DC accountable for this travesty to our land, property and environment and clean this mess up.”

Just last February, a tank exhauster at Hanford’s “C Farm” began releasing smoke, prompting an immediate evacuation. The smoke later died down and reportedly released no radiation. Only months later, Hanford gained national attention after workers detected six leaking storage tanks producing radiation readings 1,600 times higher than normal, indicative of the most powerful radioactive isotopes.

Given the government’s track record, seen in incidents such as the 1959 partial meltdown at California’s Boeing-Rocketdyne nuclear testing facility, the severity of a radioactive incident would likely be withheld from the public. Only months after the Fukushima nuclear incident unfolded, the EPA rushed to raise the “safe” radiation exposure limits, in some cases raising allowable isotope levels by 100,000 times.

The government’s decision to release workers from the ever-deteriorating Hanford nuclear site is astonishing in light of what the government has deemed “necessary” in a “shutdown” that has 85 percent of the government still operational.

Only hours before the shutdown, the State Department was rushing to finalize a $ 5 million order for custom crystal glasses and bar accessories, an obvious necessity for a government with “nothing left to cut” in its budget.

While Senators and Congressman were busy partying and drinking on the first days of the shutdown, Americans learned that the private Congressional gym would still be funded by their tax dollars as a “necessary” service.

In light of the recently discovered USDA memo ordering states to withhold federal food assistance “until further notice” beginning November, it is likely that the government shutdown will continue with “essential” funding to congressional gym memberships as plumes of nuclear workers continue drifting from employment.

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Feds Set To ‘Release’ 2,300 Workers From Nation’s Most Contaminated Nuclear Site

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by Mikael Thalen
October 16th, 2013
Updated 10/16/2013 at 8:30 am

Federal government contractors at Washington state’s Hanford nuclear site are preparing to leave this week, following the decision to release 2,300 workers due to the government shutdown.

Workers were informed Tuesday that they would not be furloughed or laid off, but “released from work until further notice” beginning Friday. The Department of Energy has ordered the employees to create a contingency plan that lays out how the site will operate during their absence.

The work force will be stripped down to its bare minimum, allegedly enough to keep the area safe while discarding daily maintenance and environmental employees who work to clean Hanford, the nations most contaminated nuclear site.

According to reports from King 5 News, Hanford workers were told that even if a deal is reached in D.C. before Friday, the release would still last one or two weeks, given the amount of time it would take for the federal government to deposit the contractors’ pay.

Workers not only expressed their concern over lost wages, but also noted the inherent danger in removing so many workers from a site containing over 53 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste, two-thirds of all nuclear waste in the country.

“Why isn’t there any appropriated money… because of the greedy, selfish, (politicians) in Washington DC. This isn’t good news for anyone and hopefully this exercise in greed won’t happen at all,” said a Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council representative.

An anonymous worker expressed concern over the tank farm exhausters, which release flammable chemical vapors from underground radioactive waste tanks. If the tank’s vents malfunction, a gas buildup could result in a hydrogen explosion.

“If there’s a major problem, they won’t have the right staffing to deal with it. If there’s a major equipment failure, like an exhauster going down, we won’t have the staffing to handle it,” said the worker.

Travis Couture, candidate for Washington state Senate and former Nuclear Submarine Mechanic, told Storyleak that the situation is a perfect example of the federal government’s refusal to accept responsibility for the problems it creates.

“The lack of leadership in regards to the Hanford Nuclear waste site is astounding. A leak in this site was known to be a great possibility a long time before it happened and in true government fashion nothing was done to prevent it or slow it down,” Couture said.

“Now with the Government shutdown battle ensuing, congress and the president are more worried about spending money to frivolously shut down the view to Mount Rushmore than they are with cleaning up their mess in our state. The WA St. Attorney General and the Governor need to hold their pals in DC accountable for this travesty to our land, property and environment and clean this mess up.”

Just last February, a tank exhauster at Hanford’s “C Farm” began releasing smoke, prompting an immediate evacuation. The smoke later died down and reportedly released no radiation. Only months later, Hanford gained national attention after workers detected six leaking storage tanks producing radiation readings 1,600 times higher than normal, indicative of the most powerful radioactive isotopes.

Given the government’s track record, seen in incidents such as the 1959 partial meltdown at California’s Boeing-Rocketdyne nuclear testing facility, the severity of a radioactive incident would likely be withheld from the public. Only months after the Fukushima nuclear incident unfolded, the EPA rushed to raise the “safe” radiation exposure limits, in some cases raising allowable isotope levels by 100,000 times.

The government’s decision to release workers from the ever-deteriorating Hanford nuclear site is astonishing in light of what the government has deemed “necessary” in a “shutdown” that has 85 percent of the government still operational.

Only hours before the shutdown, the State Department was rushing to finalize a $ 5 million order for custom crystal glasses and bar accessories, an obvious necessity for a government with “nothing left to cut” in its budget.

While Senators and Congressman were busy partying and drinking on the first days of the shutdown, Americans learned that the private Congressional gym would still be funded by their tax dollars as a “necessary” service.

In light of the recently discovered USDA memo ordering states to withhold federal food assistance “until further notice” beginning November, it is likely that the government shutdown will continue with “essential” funding to congressional gym memberships as plumes of nuclear workers continue drifting from employment.

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Breaking: Connecticut state official appears to be mind-controlled as he denies release of Adam Lanza medication history

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(NaturalNews) The State of Connecticut still maintains that the public does not have a right to know whether accused killer Adam Lanza was taking medication, or alternately withdrawing from it, when 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook last December. This is despite the fact that Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and was, at least according to reports from some who knew him, taking psychiatric drugs.

As a blind Nigerian lawyer serving as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Patrick Kwanashie stands out as the latest odd figure to aid in the furtherance of a massive cover-up concerning the shooting.

In a bizarre justification for the State’s denial of the release of Lanza’s medical records and toxicology report, Kwanashie claims that even conclusive “causal” linkage between psychiatric drugs and the shooter’s murderous behavior would be irrelevant and constitute an “illegitimate use of information.”

His dazed demeanor, thick accent and incoherent, stuttered speech make this outrageous and illogical official rationale all the more difficult to comprehend. He stated:

“No matter how the outcome of the use of antidepressants, or the causal link between the use of antidepressants and kind of violence that took place in Newtown, that’s not a legitimate use of information, that information. You can’t generalize just from one case. Even if you can conclusively establish that Adam Lanza – his murderous actions – were caused by antidepressants.

“You can’t logically from that conclude that, you know, others would commit the same actions as a result of taking antidepressants. So it’s simply not legitimate, and not only is it not the use to which they are proposing to put the information, not legitimate. It is harmful, because they you can cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications; stop cooperating with their treating physicians. Just because of the heinousness of what Adam Lanza did.”

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Keep in mind that Lanza’s psychiatric records have NOT been released to the public, yet AAG Patrick Kwanashie argues preemptively against their importance by arguing that “You can’t just generalize from one case.” Is this a tacit admission from an official Connecticut attorney that Lanza was in fact on psychoactive prescription drugs at or near the time of the shooting? Authorities have previously told the press that the autopsy investigation revealed no such substances in Lanza’s body.

Sheila Matthews, co-founder of AbleChild (a parent’s rights organization), is behind a Freedom of Information request that led to this August 22, 2013, hearing. She appears alongside activist attorney Jonathan Emord, visibly dumbfounded by listening to Kwanashie’s astounding basis for refusing to release publicly relevant information in the face of her repeated requests to the Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Office. Matthews efforts have not been to generalize, but to secure specific information about Lanza’s case.

Instead, it has been President Obama, the federal government and various political interests who have exploited the Sandy Hook massacre to make generalizations, pushing for new gun control measures and sweeping changes to mental health treatment in this country. They have sought to do so without even knowing the facts about the medical conditions that may have played a role in Lanza’s actions.

Commonly prescribed psychiatric medications have been officially connected with at least 31 violent school-related episodes since 1988, most of which were shootings. In each of these documented cases, the acts were committed by individuals either under the influence of, or in withdrawal from, psychiatric drugs. Yet these same drugs carry warnings administered by multiple regulatory agencies including the FDA, admitting that they can cause violent reactions, psychotic breaks and manic behavior.

Back in March, Sheila Matthews worked with Newtown resident Patricia Sabato to gather signatures from area residents to demand the release of Adam Lanza’s’ medical, psychiatric and toxicology/autopsy records. Following hundreds of signatures and a pointed letter, Connecticut Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver, M.D., denied the request without cause, despite federal and state laws requiring transparency and disclosure.

Authorities admit that they seized medical records from the Lanza home but have refused to release them to the public.

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State of Connecticut Refuses to Release Adam Lanza’s Medical Records

Assistant Attorney General: Identifying antidepressants Lanza was taking could “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications”

Paul Joseph Watson
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September 24, 2013

The State of Connecticut is refusing to release Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza’s medical records over fears that divulging the identity of the antidepressants he was taking would, “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications,” according to Assistant Attorney General Patrick B. Kwanashie.

The comments were made during a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) hearing regarding the release of Lanza’s toxicology report.

The parents organization AbleChild.org is attempting to secure the release of the information after Connecticut Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver, M.D. denied the request.

“What plagues this investigation is that some are simply fixated on having it remain secret in spite of the urgency of transparency that is clearly needed to protect the public,” said Patricia Weathers, co-founder of AbleChild “It is alarming that here we are very close to a year later and the public still remains in the dark, records are still sealed, and the State is now saying that it is opposing a release of the records because those records “can cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications.”

AbleChild has filed an appeal with the State’s Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) for the release of the records and is willing to take the matter to the Supreme Court if necessary.

“If there is nothing to hide then disclose, especially if this information has the potential for reevaluating the use of certain psychiatric drugs that evidence shows are contributing to the rapidly growing acts of violence in this country in recent years,” added Weathers. Our organization thinks that both the Medical Examiner’s office and State’s actions are unacceptable and reprehensible because in actuality they place the public at risk.”

Despite the fact that the search warrant pertaining to Lanza’s residence made reference to “prescriptions,” no information has been released on the identity of the medication Lanza was taking. It is known that Lanza suffered from Asperger syndrome, which is commonly treated with Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), psychotropic drugs that have been linked with violent outbursts.

Louise Tambascio, a family friend of the shooter and his mother, also told 60 Minutes, “I know he was on medication and everything….I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”

Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members during the rampage last December in Newtown, which was the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history.

As we have repeatedly documented, psychiatric drugs have been a common theme in hundreds of murders and mass shootings over the last three decades.

The most recent example, Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis, was taking the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, which has been linked to numerous murders and a mass shooting at a beauty parlor in 2011.

Despite it being reported that prescription drugs were found in the apartment of ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes days after the Aurora massacre, it took nine months to find out exactly what those drugs were. Like Columbine killer Eric Harris, Holmes had been taking Zoloft, another SSRI drug linked with violent outbursts.

The SSRI Stories website has documented countless examples of school shootings, suicides, violent outbursts and murders linked to psychiatric drugs.

However, in the aftermath of such incidents, the mainstream media almost always fails to pursue any connection to antidepressants and instead obsesses about gun control, despite the fact that gun homicides have dropped by 49% since 1993.

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Date set for Taliban chief release

20 September 2013 Last updated at 11:37 ET

Former Afghan Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is to be released from prison in Pakistan on Saturday, the foreign ministry says.

His release is seen as a key step in boosting the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.

Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.

He became a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban were toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001.

He was captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2010.

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Qatar urges prisoner release as Egypt mediation hopes fade

1 of 3. Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi hold up posters, including Egypt’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L) that reads, ”A murderer,” during a protest at the Rabaa al-Adawiya square where they are camping, in Cairo, August 6, 2013.

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By Michael Georgy and Maggie Fick

CAIRO | Wed Aug 7, 2013 5:24am EDT

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt must release jailed Muslim Brotherhood leaders to help end political turmoil following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, Qatar’s foreign minister said as international mediation efforts to avert more bloodshed appeared to be fading.

Khaled al-Attiya, who has been trying to mediate an end to the crisis along with envoys from the United States, European Union and United Arab Emirates, returned home on Wednesday after several days in Cairo.

“My wish for the brothers in Egypt is to release the political prisoners as soon as possible because they are the key to unlocking this crisis,” he told Qatar-based Al Jazeera television in an interview.

Qatar was the main financial backer of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government which ruled Egypt for a turbulent year until a July 3 military takeover backed by massive street demonstrations.

“Without a serious dialogue with all the parties, and most importantly with the political prisoners because they are the main element in this crisis, I believe things will be difficult,” Attiya said.

His comments echoed those of two senior U.S. senators who, after talks in Cairo on Tuesday, forecast bloodshed within weeks unless the new authorities released prisoners and began a national dialogue including the Brotherhood. Their warning drew an official rebuke and Egyptian media outrage.

The Dutch foreign minister was the latest foreign emissary due to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart, the prime minister and the president and other officials on Wednesday as time appeared to be running out for a diplomatic solution.

Fears that Mursi was trying to establish an Islamist autocracy, coupled with a failure to ease economic hardships afflicting most of Egypt’s 84 million people, led to mass street protests, triggering the army intervention.

Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since the overthrow, including 80 shot dead by security forces on July 27.

Mursi’s supporters have been staging sit ins and two areas of Cairo to demand his reinstatement. Egyptian authorities have said their patience has limits.

TALKS ON THE ROCKS

Prospects of a negotiated end to the crisis looked to be on the rocks on the last day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, with the army-installed government reportedly ready to declare that foreign mediation efforts had failed.

However a person directly involved in the mediation effort told Reuters: “It’s still open. We are still trying.”

State-run Al-Ahram newspaper, citing official sources, said the government would make an announcement to that effect soon.

The paper said the authorities would also declare that Muslim Brotherhood protests were non-peaceful – a signal that the government intends to end them by force.

Interim head of state Adly Mansour, installed by the military after Mursi’s ouster, was due to address the nation later on Wednesday ahead of the Eid al-Fitr Muslim feast which begins on Thursday. Egypt traditionally closes down for several days for the Eid.

A military source had earlier said the interim government and army were mulling the possibility of releasing Muslim Brotherhood detainees in a bid to end the turmoil.

But now that the judiciary has taken up the cases and set trial dates for top Brotherhood leaders, it may be difficult for army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled Mursi, to offer releases.

It may be easier to release the head of the Brotherhood political party, Saad al-Katatni, who like Mursi is under judicial investigation but has not been charged.

The country’s first freely elected president, Mursi is now being detained at an undisclosed location and thousands of his supporters remain camped out at two protest sites in Cairo.

The al-Ahram report doused hopes of a breakthrough, with the government-owned media casting the blame on what it called the intransigence of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood.

The newspaper said the interim government would announce “the failure of all U.S., European, Qatari and UAE delegations in convincing the Brotherhood of a peaceful solution to the current crisis”.

Asked to comment on the newspaper report, a senior U.S. State Department official in Washington said: “We are still committed to our ongoing efforts at calming tensions, preventing violence and moving toward an inclusive political process.”

Two U.S. senators who visited Cairo on Tuesday, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, called on the military to release political prisoners and start a national dialogue to return the country to democratic rule.

“I didn’t know it was this bad. These folks are just days or weeks away from all-out bloodshed,” Graham told the CBS network.

(Additional reporting by Sami Aboudi in Dubai; Editing by Paul Taylor)

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Three Ohio women freed from abduction ordeal release video

A police officer walks past the house (R) where three women who vanished as teenagers about a decade ago were discovered alive, in Cleveland, Ohio May 7, 2013.

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By Kim Palmer

CLEVELAND | Tue Jul 9, 2013 3:46am EDT

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Three young Ohio women freed two months ago from a decade of captivity in the home of a former school bus driver spoke publicly for the first time since their ordeal in a video released early on Tuesday thanking supporters and loved ones.

The video was filmed last week in the offices of the law firm managing a trust fund established for the three women, who took turns in separate appearances before the camera to express gratitude for donations to the fund and for a chance to rebuild their lives.

Organizers said the Cleveland Courage Fund has grown to more than $ 1 million as of July 2, with over 9,200 individuals making contributions.

The 3 1/2-minute long video (ow.ly/mL5vb) marked the first sustained glimpse of all three women – Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32 – since they were rescued on May 6.

Ariel Castro, fired last fall from his job as a Cleveland school bus driver, has been charged with kidnapping the three victims between 2002 and 2004 and brutalizing them while holding them captive in his house over the next 10 years.

Officials said the three women were kept bound for periods of time in chains or rope and that they endured starvation, beatings and sexual assaults. One of them, Knight, was said to have suffered several miscarriages deliberately induced by her captor, for which Castro has been charged with murder.

Explaining the reason for the video’s release, Knight’s lawyer, Kathy Joseph, said, “People are recognizing them now as they go about in public, so they decided to put voices and faces to their heartfelt messages.”

Berry, rescued along with the 6-year-old daughter she bore during her captivity, spoke first, reading from a short statement that thanked family and friends and concluded by asking that “everyone respect our privacy and give us time to have a normal life.”

DeJesus appeared next, stating simply: “I would say thank you for your support.” Her father and mother also spoke briefly.

The video was capped by a lengthier statement from Knight, who said she wanted “everyone to know that I’m doing just fine.”

“I may have been through hell and back, but I’m strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face, and with my head held high, and my feet firmly on the ground,” she said, adding she was determined not to “let the situation define who I am.”

Castro, who turns 53 on Wednesday, is scheduled to return to a downtown Cleveland courtroom on June 24. A judge ruled last week that he was competent to stand trial on 329 criminal counts, including charges of kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder.

(Editing by Steve Gorman)

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Julian Assange: "No Stopping" Release Of More NSA Secrets

JULIAN ASSANGE: “There is no stopping the publishing process at this stage. Great care has been taken to make sure that Mr. Snowden can’t be pressured by any state to stop the publication process. I mean, the United States, by canceling his passport, has left him for the moment marooned in Russia. Is that really a great outcome by the State Department? Is that really what it wanted to do?”

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Chemical release at Intel in Arizona sends 11 to hospitals

(CNN) — A chemical release at the Intel complex in Chandler, Arizona, on Saturday sent 11 people to local hospitals, where they were reported in stable condition, said fire department spokesman Tom Dwiggins.

Forty-three people suffered breathing difficulties and skin and eye irritations, but only 11 of them were taken to medical centers, he said.

The leak began at 6:30 a.m. Saturday but has since been stopped, Dwiggins said later Saturday morning.

The cause is under investigation, he said.

CNN’s John Branch contributed to this report.

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Secret court won"t object to release of opinion on illegal surveillance

By Michael Isikoff
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In a rare public ruling by the nation’s most secretive judicial body, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Wednesday that it did not object to the release of a classified 86-page opinion concluding that some of the U.S. government’s surveillance activities were unconstitutional.

The ruling, signed by the court’s chief judge, Reggie Walton, rejected the Justice Department’s arguments that the secret national security court’s rules prevented disclosure of the opinion. Instead, the court found that because the document was in the possession of the Justice Department, it was subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act.

Privacy advocates who brought the case said Wednesday that the ruling could pave the way for at least the partial release of landmark — but still classified — court rulings that some government surveillance activities violated the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution barring “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

The release of the opinion, they say, may prove central in the current controversy over the scope of National Security Agency surveillance programs.

“It’s a brand new day,” said Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group that brought the case. He noted that it is extremely rare for any FISC ruling to be made public at all, much less for the court to rule on behalf of disclosure advocates over the objection of Justice Department lawyers.

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A spokesman said the Justice Department was reviewing the ruling and declined further comment.

The EFF’s lawsuit was inspired by a July 20, 2012 letter from an aide to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., that stated that “on at least one occasion,” the FISC held that “some collection” carried out by the U.S. government under classified surveillance programs “was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

The letter, from Kathleen Turner, Clapper’s chief of legislative affairs, provided no further information about what the FISC found to be unconstitutional, but did state that the government “has remedied these concerns” and the FISC has continued to approve its collection activities. 

Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said he was barred from speaking any further about the matter because it remained classified.

The EFF last year filed a lawsuit to compel disclosure of the FISC opinion under the Freedom of Information Act.  As part of the case, the Justice Department acknowledged there was in fact an 86-page opinion by the FISC dated Oct. 3, 2011, that was responsive to the FOIA request. But department lawyers argued that the FISC opinion could not be released because the court’s own rules barred public disclosure.

In Wednesday’s seven-page opinion, Judge Walton found otherwise, siding in part with the EFF over the Justice Department. He concluded that a FISC rule requiring that its opinions be sealed did not apply to an opinion in the government’s possession that had not otherwise been barred from disclosure.

The ruling did not order the immediate release of the opinion, however, instead referred the matter to a lower court for a final decision on whether the opinion is eligible for release under FOIA, which requires the government to release documents not covered by security or other narrow exemptions.

However, Walton did not immediately order the DOJ to release the order. Instead, he wrote, “This court expresses no opinion on the other issues presented” in the FOIA case “including whether the opinion is ultimately subject to disclosure.”

Such questions, he wrote, are “appropriately addressed” by the federal court in which the EFF lawsuit was originally filed.

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