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Cia Interrogation Tapes

Fix the Field Manual

Stephen Rickard | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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President Obama and the Interrogation Task Force deserve high praise for making a decisive break with Bush Administration practices, but some forms of torture remain on the books.

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Justice Department Digging Deeper With Investigation Into Interrogation Tapes Destroyed By CIA

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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When president Obama decided to release the Bush-era Justice Department's interrogation memos last month, he tried to calm an anxious CIA by publicly ...

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Guantanamo Tapes Show Detainee Interrogations

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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Judge Halts CIA Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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Ex-CIA Official Wants Immunity In Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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Federal Judge Spares Bush Admin Inquiry Into CIA Tapes Destruction

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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CIA Withheld Al Qaeda Tapes From 9/11 Commission

New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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White House Lawyers Deny CIA Tapes Contain Torture

AFP | Roland Lloyd Parry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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Congress Subpoenas CIA Official Over Torture Tapes

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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Bush Administration Going To Court Over CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida...

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Conyers, Kennedy Join Push For Special Prosecutor

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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When news broke that the CIA had kept videotapes showing torture of detainees secret and then secretly destroyed them, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) was fast ...

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Bush Admin Asks Judge Not To Investigate CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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he Bush administration has told a federal judge it was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists and urged th...

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GOP Senators Block Bill That Bans Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against terrorism suspects. The legislation, p...

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Mukasey Won't Give Congress CIA Tape Details

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destructi...

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CIA Official Who Ordered Tapes Destroyed Lawyers Up

TPMmuckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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