Senate Intelligence Committee

Disguising the Truth about U.S.-Sponsored Torture

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Jose Rodriguez, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, UN Convention Against Torture, Nrcat, Senate Intelligence Committee, Osama Bin Laden, Hard Measures, Politics News
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

As a nation founded on religious and moral values, we cannot begin to move past the shameful use of torture until we ensure that U.S. government-sponsored torture never occurs again. Justifications for the use of torture impede us from this important task.

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America's Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy

William Astore | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: National Security Agency, National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Nsa, Intelligence Community, National Security, Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/11, Malcolm Gladwell, Politics News
William Astore

Lost is the lesson of 9/11: We didn't have a collection problem but a connection one. Yet our response has largely been not to find better ways of connecting the dots, but rather simply to collect more dots.

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Dem Chairman Faults White House, Fellow Dems For Detainee Policy

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Suspected Terrorists, Senator Carl Levin, Video, Terrorists, Defense Bill, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Detainees, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday faulted the White House and fellow Democrats for mischaracterizing provisi...

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Sources: Pakistan Arrests Multiple C.I.A. Informants Involved In Bin Laden Raid

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER and KATHY GANNON | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Mike Rogers, Inter-Services Intelligence, Isi, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Central Intelligence Agency, Osama Bin Laden Death, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Taliban, Senate Intelligence Committee, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Video, House Intelligence Committee, Cia, Abbottabad, Leon Panetta, Abbottabad Compound, Michael J. Morell, Michael Morell, World News

WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's intelligence service has arrested the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe Osama bin Laden's compound before th...

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Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Aclu, Mark Udall, Autopen, White House, Ron Wyden, Congress, Mitch McConnell, Terrorism, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, 9/11, Fbi, James Clapper, Nra, Senate Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, September 11, Patriot Act, National Rifle Association, Roving-Wiretap, Rand Paul, Lone Wolf, Patriot Act Extension, Robert Mueller, Harry Reid, Video, Politics News

JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of pos...

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NY Times: Harsh Interrogation Methods Played 'Small Role At Most' In Bin Laden's Capture

The New York Times | SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Peter King, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Central Intelligence Agency, Abu-Faraj-Al-Libi, Osama Bin Laden Death, Pakistan, Dianne Feinstein, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Osama Bin Laden Killed, John Yoo, Senate Intelligence Committee, Hassan Ghul, Abu Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Enhanced Interrogations, Osama Bin Laden Courier, Iraq, Torture, World News

WASHINGTON — Did brutal interrogations produce the crucial intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden?...

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Jennifer Bendery

Key Senator: Bin Laden May Have Lived At Compound For Up To Six Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Osama Bin Laden Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Pakistan, Dianne Feinstein, Elections 2012, Frank Lautenberg, Senate Intelligence Committee, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Monday that Osama bin Laden had been living on the compound where he was...

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McCain Blocks National Intelligence Director Nomination

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A spokeswoman for Sen. John McCain says the senator is blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to be the director of national int...

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Senate Committee Expected To Approve Intelligence Chief Nominee

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Clapper, James Clapper Intelligence, Intelligence Chief, Pentagon, Dennis Blair, Senate, Senate Intelligence Committee, James Clapper Nomination, James Clapper Confirmation, James Clapper Hearings, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's nominee to be chief of U.S. intelligence, James R. Clapper, is expected to be approved by the Senate Intel...

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When Paperwork Power Struggles Turn Dangerous

Ed Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11, 1947 National Security Act, James Clapper, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, Peace Dividend, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News
Ed Hooper

Diluted responsibilities and the lack of definitive chains of command in the U.S. Intelligence community are critically dangerous issues in the public eye.

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Most Guantanamo Bay Detainees Were Low-Level Fighters, Report Confirms

New York Times | Charlie Savage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Underwear Bomber, Military Tribunals, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Senate Intelligence Committee, Terrorism, Close, Obama, Gitmo, White House, Enemy Combatants, Prison, Report, Iraq, Cuba, World News

The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence...

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Intelligence Community Must Build Greater Trust

Pete Contostavlos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Christmas Day Terror Attack, House Intelligence Committee, Intelligence, Dennis Blair, Senate-Homeland-Security-and-Governmental-Affairs-Committee, Director of National Intelligence, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News
Pete Contostavlos

We must keep the trust of intelligence professionals and war fighters on the front lines in order to provide timely, accurate and relevant information to policymakers and those who need it.

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Top Spies Terror Warning: Shades of Bush

Jeff Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Underwear Bomber, War on Terror, Dni, Cia, Abdulmutallab, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Interrogation, Civil Rights, Senate Intelligence Committee, Miranda Warning, National Security, Counterterrorism, Robert Mueller, Dennis Blair, Waterboarding, Leon Panetta, Fbi, World News
Jeff Stein

Which is it now -- imminent terrorist threat, or no threat? Certain or uncertain? Only last month U.S. intelligence officials were saying the Nigeria...

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Kit Bond Pulls Out Of Intelligence Investigation

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holder Investigation, Senate Intel Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Eric Holder, Christopher Bond, Kit Bond Torture Investigation, Republicans Intelligence Investigation, Politics News

Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administ...

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cia, Blackwater, Department of Justice, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Billy Waugh, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Wesley Clark, CIA Assassination, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Senate Intelligence Committee, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Steve Coll, House Intelligence Committee, Cheney Assassination Ring, Cia, Cofer Black, Moammar Gadhafi, Jimmy Carter, Assassination, Slobodan Milosovic, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.

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Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Senator Carl Levin, Dick-Cheney-Interrogation, Cia, Diane Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...

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Ryan Grim

Feinstein: Senate Committee Has Completed Torture Investigation Into Two High Value Detainees

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, Politics News

The Senate intelligence committee's investigation into the treatment and interrogation of detainees is well underway, having already completed its loo...

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Senate Republicans Join Campaign Against Obama Intel Chair

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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All seven Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee joined the chorus of criticism on Capitol Hill over the Obama administration's naming of a ...

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Senate To Investigate CIA's Actions Under Bush

Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Senate Probes Detention Programs, Senate Probes CIA, Senate Probe of Bush, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News

Reporting from Washington -- The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation progra...

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Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Nuclear Weapons, Iraq, George W. Bush, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

If Dianne Feinstein's real goal was to protect us from Iraq's alleged WMD's, she would have called for the withdrawal of troops once they invaded and discovered that there weren't such weapons after all.

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Dem Senator Reasserts Hard Line Against Torture After Blogger Outrage

New York Times | Scott Shane And Mark Mazzetti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterboarding, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, Politics News

After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the Cali...

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Congress Set For Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Jose Rodriguez, CIA Interrogation Tapes, CIA Tapes Destroyed, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, National Security, Deleted CIA Tapes, CIA Jose Rodriguez, Senate Intelligence Committee, Jose Rodriguez CIA Tapes, CIA Tapes, Politics News

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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Senate Panel Says Gaps Remain After CIA Tapes Testimony

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Breaking Politics News, CIA Interrogation Tapes, CIA Interrogations, CIA Director Michael Hayden, Michael Hayden, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News

CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about...

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CIA Director To Testify About Destroyed Videotapes

Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Bush Administration Torture, CIA Interrogations, House Intelligence Committee, War on Terror, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Cia, Michael Hayden, Silvestre Reyes, Reyes CIA Torture, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Deleted CIA Tapes, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News

CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...

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