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Secrecy, the Republic and the Supreme Court
May 2010
Tom Reifer

Elena Kagan's use of the state secrets privilege to dismiss the case of a German citizen, who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, should be a cause for major concern over her recent nomination by President Obama to the US Supreme Court.

IPS Applauds Intensified US Investigation of Pinochet
March 2000
Institute for Policy Studies

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is greatly encouraged by recent signs that the US government has intensified their investigation of the 1976 car bomb murders of IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt by agents of former Chilean General Augusto Pinochet.

US Also Leans Toward Prosecuting Pinochet
December 1998
Jim Lobe

The administration of President Bill Clinton appears on the verge of launching a new investigation of the role of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's in a 1976 political assassination.

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