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Cia Interrogations

CIA Shake-Up Passes Over Officer Tied To Interrogation Program

The Washington Post | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

A CIA officer who was the first woman to lead the agency’s clandestine service, but was also closely tied to the agency’s interrogation program, w...

Matt Sledge

'Zero Dark Thirty' Makers Asked To Weigh In On Senate Torture Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.21.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Twenty-eight retired generals and admirals sent a letter to the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers behind "Zero Dark Thirty" on Thursday, ...

Matt Sledge

Yale To Train Green Berets?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics

A Yale University professor currently being criticized for his recent proposal to train U.S. Special Forces in interview techniques has previously con...

WATCH: Why The U.S. Outsources Torture

The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 02.06.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

A new report released Tuesday claims that as many as 54 foreign governments in Europe, Asia and Africa have been secretly involved in global kidnappin...

Matt Sledge

Senate Approves Report On CIA Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2012 | Politics

The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 9-6 on Thursday to approve a report on the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program that could shed light on the ...

Gov. Closes CIA Interrogations Investigation Without Bringing Charges

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 10.30.2012 | World

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced Thursday it has ended its investigation into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees without bri...

New Book Explains Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Videos

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 06.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding says in a new book that he was tired of waiting ...

The Art of Politics; the Science of Interrogation

Steven Kleinman | Posted 07.11.2011 | Politics
Steven Kleinman

It remains to be seen if the public, or the intelligence community, will ever know with certainty if coercive measures played a direct or meaningful role in obtaining the intelligence necessary to find the al Qaeda figurehead.

Words of Wisdom About Terror Trials -- Whatever Your View

Marty Robins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marty Robins

In light on the ongoing debate around military commissions for terrorist suspects and the disposition of the Gitmo holding facility, a new book will interest anyone concerned with national security policy.

AP: Ex-CIA Officer Accused Of Electric-Drill Torture Now Training CIA Operatives As A Contractor

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intell...

Latest CIA Interrogation Tapes Don't Tell the Whole Story

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

Even if the newly released footage of Bin al shibh's interrogation in Morocco shows largely benign interrogations, we shouldn't forget that many of the videotapes that the CIA destroyed in 2005 documented serious abuse.

CIA Overreached On Terror Suspect Interrogations, Says Key Bush Lawyer

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — One of the key Bush administration lawyers in the evolution of the CIA's interrogation program cast doubt on whether the Justice De...

NY Judge Rules Against ACLU: CIA Can Keep Secret Lists

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — A judge for a second time has denied efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union to force the CIA to release names and documents re...

Interrogation Critics Ought to Give it a Try Sometime

Jack Cloonan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jack Cloonan

Those politicians and pundits who denounce the decision to Mirandize Mr. Shazhad, a naturalized U.S. citizen, do a disservice to the men and women in law enforcement who every day try their best to protect us.

CIA Interrogation Investigation: Senate Looks Into DOJ Attorneys Who Approved Methods

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal...

OPR Report: CIA Interrogators Asked For, Were Denied, Power To Stage Mock Burials For Suspects

Firedoglake | Marcy Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

CIA's torturers asked DOJ to let them use mock burials. But DOJ said no. PDF page 42 of the OPR Report (searchable copy here) includes a list of the ...

The Keystone Feds Mirandasize Umar Farouk

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

I have a real problem when President Obama declares we are at war with al Qaeda, only to witness the Justice Department according Miranda rights to alleged non-American terrorists captured on U.S. soil.

Bush Speech Writer Makes Jack Bauer Look Reasonable

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Danzig

A new book from a former speech writer for President George Bush makes a number of wild claims in an effort to "correct the record" about the CIA enhanced interrogation program.

CIA 'Black Sites': Final Status Of The Facilities Remains In The Dark

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Whatever happened to the so-called "black sites," where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that ...

Videotaping Detainee Interrogations Pushed For By Congress

New York Times | Scott Shane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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...

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

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Ex-CIA Chiefs Ask Obama To Stop Interrogations Probe

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Broder Sees Too Many Consequences To CIA Accountability

Washington Post | David S. Broder | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Why David Broder Is Wrong

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rep. John Conyers

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

Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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