Cia Interrogations

Interrogation Tactics Were Challenged By Career Lawyer

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson and Josh White | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics


Five years ago, as troubling reports emerged about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a career lawyer at the Justice Department began...

George Bush: I Was Aware Of Harsh Tactics Meetings

ABC News | JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics


President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be...

Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics


A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...

CIA Confirms Rendition Flights to Brits

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory...

Gitmo Interrogator Describes Tactics

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...

FBI Team Reinterrogated CIA Suspects To Get "Clean" Intel

Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics


The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...

Former Spy Chief Confirms US Did Waterboard Detainees

Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics


The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most ex...

Boeing's Unfriendly Skies

William Fisher | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics


William Fisher

In the first-ever report of its kind, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU released a first-hand account of a survivor of enforced disappearance and torture at several CIA 'black sites'.

Special Counsel Needed to Probe CIA Videotape Destruction

Joe Biden | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics


Joe Biden

I do not make the call for a special counsel lightly. Seldom have the facts and circumstances surrounding an investigation made a more compelling case for appointment of a special counsel.

Gonzales, Cheney's Lawyer Plotted Over CIA Torture Tapes

New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics


At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy vid...

Conyers, Kennedy Join Push For Special Prosecutor

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics


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 ...

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

TPMmuckraker | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics


"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...

Bush Admin Asks Judge Not To Investigate CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics


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

GOP Senators Block Bill That Bans Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics


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

Bush Threatens To Veto Bill That Bans Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics


The House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods....

Torture: Leadership Requires Accountability, All the Way to the Top

Gov. Bill Richardson | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics


Gov. Bill Richardson

In the thirteen months since winning back Congress, Democrats have done too little to force this administration to stop torturing.

Bush Administration Was Court Ordered Not To Destroy Torture Evidence

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics


The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...

Waterboarding vs. Hammers vs. Genitals

Bob Cesca | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics


Bob Cesca

At what point does the gothic horror of the American torture chambers outweigh that which they aim to prevent? How far, when operating within a bubble devoid of accountability, will they go?

Senate Panel Says Gaps Remain After CIA Tapes Testimony

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics


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

Will Thomas

Congressman Calls For Special Counsel Over CIA Tapes

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics


Someone call Patrick Fitzgerald. Today Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey requesting the immediate appointment of a speci...

Bush: I Didn't Know About Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Tapes

ABC News | Martha Raddatz | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics


ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA vid...

CIA Director To Testify About Destroyed Videotapes

Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics


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

Democrats Need To Admit They Have A Problem: They Are Addicted to Backing Down

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

It's shocking that any American lawmaker -- of either party -- would go along with state-sanctioned torture. But it's not shocking when you realize it's just part of a long line of Democratic "acquiescence."

Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics


Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...

The Daily Szep: CIA Games

Paul Szep | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics


Paul Szep

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