Ali Soufan

The Truth About Whistleblowing

Alma Katsu | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Whistleblowers, Cia, The Interrogator, Ali Soufan, Enhanced Interrogations, CIA Torture, Glenn Carle, Censorship, Torture, DC News
Alma Katsu

Are whistleblowers disgruntled troublemakers looking for attention? Or are courts and federal agencies colluding to squash valid criticism?

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On Car Bombs and Righteous Leaks: A Conversation With Robert Baer

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Colbert Report, Germany, Vehicle Bombing, Terrorism, Car Bombing, Ali Soufan, Car Bomb, Kevin Toolis, George Clooney, Lebanon, Media, China, Philip Murphy, Provisional Irish Republican Army, London, Iran, Middle East, Robert Baer, Ukraine, 24, Capitol, North Korea, World News
Dan Lybarger

Robert Baer retired from the Central Intelligence Agency after 20 years in 1997, but he's still learning about security threats from the region that was his specialty, the Middle East.

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There You Go Again: the Death Rites of Miranda

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Ali Soufan, John Walker Lindh, George W. Bush, Obama, Michael Dukakis, Ben Franklin, Jon Kyl, Miranda, John Cornyn, Mirandized, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Jose Padilla, Robert Meuller, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, Richard Reid, Hermann Goering, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

GOP candidates are manly men who fight for law and order. Only leftist weaklings bother with details like fair trials or worry about executing innocent prisoners.

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Jason Linkins

Marc Thiessen, Jon Stewart Argue Over Detainee Policy, Interview Etiquette (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Thiessen Jon Stewart, Marc Thiessen, Video, Ali Soufan, Marc Thiessen Daily Show, Daily Show Marc Thiessen, Jon Stewart Marc Thiessen, Courting Disaster, Eat the Press, Media News

Torture thrillist Marc Thiessen's book tour brought him to the set of "The Daily Show" last night, where he was basically eaten alive by Jon Stewart i...

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Jason Linkins

Thiessen Appears On 'Morning Joe', Is Still Demonstrably Wrong About Everything

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Thiessen, Video, Ali Soufan, Morning Joe, Barack Obama, Media Criticism, War on Terror, Eat the Press, Politics News

Here's your daily reminder that Marc Thiessen is basically wrong about everything and has a near-erotic attachment to the thought of people getting to...

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FBI Interrogator: Waterboarding Does Not Work

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Alexander, Waterboarding, Cia, Ali Soufan, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

According to Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" procedures caused a key Al Qaeda operative to clam up, not provide actionable intelligence.

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How do we Debate the Unthinkable?

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Torture Memos, Ali Soufan, Torture, Home News
Peter Henne

The torture memos were a case of our nation's elites turning the unspeakable into the ordinary. Our responsibility now is to ensure it never becomes ordinary, even as a subject of condemnation.

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Ali Soufan Interview: FBI Interrogator Of Zubaydah Breaks Silence, Condemns Torture Tactics

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I've kept my mouth shut about all this for seven years," Soufan says. But now, with the declassification of Justice memos and the public assertions b...

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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