Missing Cia Torture Tapes

Rule of Law Takes a Holiday While Bush Admits Torture and CIA Gets Off the Hook

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nan Aron

This week, along with the spectacle of former President George W. Bush bragging on national television about authorizing torture, federal prosecutor J...

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War is Torture

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Ayers

I would like to balance this crazy talk about whether torture is good policy with a counter-balancing, air-clearing, broad assertion: war is torture.

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Torture & Human Rights Post 9/11

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

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John L. Esposito

The recent release of CIA memos regarding the use of torture, in particular water boarding, have been a grim reminder of the legacy of the Bush era.

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Errol Morris

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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Guantanamo Tapes Show Detainee Interrogations

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and...

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CIA Destroyed Tapes As Judge Sought Interrogation Data

Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was s...

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Judge Wants Answers on CIA Videotapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to his court case, and he gave the Bush admi...

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Judge On CIA Tapes: "It Boggles The Mind"

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...

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Lawyer: Goss Never Objected on CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Porter Goss never criticized plans to destroy interrogation videotapes, a lawyer said Thursday as the investiga...

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Mukasey To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee

Politico | Daniel Reilly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorney General Michael Mukasey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of the month, his first appearance before the committee...

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Congress Set For Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda opera...

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Ex-CIA Official Wants Immunity In Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorneys for Jose Rodriguez told Congress the former CIA official won't testify about the destruction of CIA videotapes without a promise of immunity...

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Judge Halts CIA Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration v...

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George Tenet Lawyers Up Over CIA Tapes Probe

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Attorney general Michael Mukasey's decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed ...

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Torture Tape Probe Seen As Payback In FBI-CIA Rivalry

NY Times | Ariel Alexovich | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of the Central Intelligence Agency interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by a...

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Veteran Prosecutor Takes Over CIA Probe

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the high-profile, politically charged investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, the Justice Department is turning to a low-p...

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Mukasey Launches Criminal Probe Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ap...

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White House Lawyers Deny CIA Tapes Contain Torture

AFP | Roland Lloyd Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

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US government lawyers flatly denied Friday that videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained any scenes of the torture of terror suspects in Guantanamo B...

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9/11 Commission Chair: "No Question" CIA Tried "To Impede Our Investigation"

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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In its attempts to uncover all materials related to the 9/11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission specifically requested material about the interrogations of ...

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Congress Subpoenas CIA Official Over Torture Tapes

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena Thursday for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who directed that secret interrogation videota...

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CIA Withheld Al Qaeda Tapes From 9/11 Commission

New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central ...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: We Have Always Had No Comment About Eurasia

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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To the surprise of nobody, the New York Times this morning reported that, as it turns out, four White House officials - Harriet Miers, John Bellinger,...

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CIA Official Who Ordered Tapes Destroyed Lawyers Up

TPMmuckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blink and you'll miss it in today's New York Times piece on the House's torture ban. But Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's ex-operations director who ordered ...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: In Which We Pretend That Widely Known Facts Aren't Widely Known

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the more inane ideas that has been put forth since the beginning of the Iraq War is that our enemy sits with their eyes glued to the television...

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White House Moves To Block CIA Tape Probe: "Smells Like The Coverup Of The Coverup"

TPMmuckraker | Posted 05.25.2011

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"It smells like the coverup of the coverup." That's Rep. Jane Harman's (D-CA) take. And Rep. Pete Hoekstra's (R-MI) wasn't any different. In case yo...

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