{"id":439,"date":"2017-03-15T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?p=439"},"modified":"2018-09-22T01:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T05:03:44","slug":"nccit-begins-work-gains-news-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/2017\/03\/15\/nccit-begins-work-gains-news-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCIT begins work, gains news coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccit.org\/\">The North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture<\/a>\u00a0(NCCIT) had its formal launch with a conference call for media on March 15, 2017.\u00a0 So far, here&#8217;s the coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/post\/new-commission-probe-alleged-nc-connection-extraordinary-rendition-flights\">WUNC, The State of Things<\/a>: New Commission to probe alleged NC connection in extraordinary rendition flights (<a href=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/wunc\/audio\/2017\/03\/sot031517segA.mp3\">listen<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>AP national story (as seen in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2017\/03\/15\/us\/ap-us-cia-citizen-hearings.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>, as well as the Houston Chronicle, the Charlotte Observer, and many other media): Citizens&#8217; group aims to investigate CIA rendition program<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/minister-joins-effort-to-address-north-carolinas-role-in-torture\/#.WMmDnvnyuUk\">Baptist Global news<\/a>: Minister joins effort to address North Carolina\u2019s role in torture<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/cia-torture-aero-contractors-obama-how-complicit-was-the-uk-a7632866.html\">Independent (London)<\/a>: A major new inquiry has just been opened and it could reveal just how complicit the UK was in CIA torture<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article138744423.html\">Raleigh News &amp; Observer<\/a>: New Commission to look into North Carolina&#8217;s role in torture program<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/news\/20170315\/panel-aims-to-shine-light-on-states-role-in-supporting-torture\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a>: Panel aims to shine light on state\u2019s role in supporting torture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the News &amp; Observer published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article139976523.html\">this op-ed<\/a> by NCCIT co-chair Frank Goldsmith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Added several new stories that have been published since this post originally appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The The North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture\u00a0(NCCIT) had its formal launch with a conference call for media on March 15, 2017.\u00a0 So far, here&#8217;s the coverage: WUNC, The State of Things: New Commission to probe alleged NC connection in extraordinary rendition flights (listen) AP national story (as seen in the\u00a0New York Times, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}