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Videotaping Detainee Interrogations Pushed For By Congress

New York Times | Scott Shane | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Congress is moving to require videotaping of interrogations of detainees held by the military, a step proponents say will prevent abuse and create a v...

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CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Detainees' Brains, Making Them Less Reliable: Report

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their abil...

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Ex-CIA Chiefs Ask Obama To Stop Interrogations Probe

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspe...

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Why David Broder Is Wrong

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Rep. John Conyers

The decision whether to investigate possible crimes connected to our interrogation programs is simply not a political one.

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Broder Sees Too Many Consequences To CIA Accountability

Washington Post | David S. Broder | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Ho...

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Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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In an interview late Tuesday, Bruce Fein, an Associate Deputy Attorney General during President Ronald Reagan's administration, said the Justice Depar...

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "*#*!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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David Danzig

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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Report Reveals Cheney Misled About "Trained Interrogators"

Rawstory.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Since Monday, when the CIA released a significant part of those documents -- a 2004 CIA inspector general's report on torture practices -- there has b...

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C.I.A. Inspector General Report: Did Military Doctors Intervene When Necessary?

John H. Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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John H. Tucker

Given that at least a dozen prisoners -- and likely more -- have died by homicide in military prisons this decade, one wonders how often doctors monitored torturous interrogations without intervening.

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"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

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Inside The CIA's haphazard Interrogation Program

AP | PAMELA HESS and MATT APUZZO | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interroga...

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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...

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CIA Abuse Investigation Likely: Holder Poised To Appoint Criminal Prosecutor

Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller and Josh Meyer | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of ...

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US Might Create Terror Interrogation Team

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering creating a special unit of professional interrogators to handle key terror suspects, focusi...

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Obama: Focus on the Future: Create Jobs Not Special Prosecutors

Robert Guttman | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Robert Guttman

Forget a special prosecutor to look into Bush interrogation practices. Don't look like a third world nation and attempt to prosecute the previous administration.

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Shirley and the CIA

Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home

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Norman Horowitz

Where are all of the documentaries about the CIA on FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC?

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Advocacy Groups Say Torture Memo Authors Should Be Disbarred

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the District of Columbia and New York bar associations to disbar three government attorney...

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CIA Ex-Chief Hayden Blames Bloggers, Congressional Aides for Damage Caused by His Policies

Frank Naif | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

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Frank Naif

Senior intelligence community hacks like Michael Hayden and his peers are responsible for scuttling senior CIA analyst Phil Mudd's nomination to the senior DHS intelligence post.

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Obama Torture Task Force Considers Reducing CIA Role In Interrogations

The Washington Independant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama's ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency...

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Internal Government Report To Detail CIA Interrogations, Secret Detention

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and ...

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Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.

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Harry Reid: Interrogation Photos "Are Not Going To Be Released"

Politico | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just made two seemingly contradictory assertions: First, that so-called "torture" photos of interrogations won't ev...

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Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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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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Cheney Led Briefings Of Members Of Congress To Defend Interrogation Techniques

Washington Post | Paul Kane and Joby Warrick | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogati...

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Sen. Levin: CIA Docs Do Not Prove Cheney's Torture Claim

The Plumline | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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There's some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Administration this week....

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