Cia Interrogations

Videotaping Detainee Interrogations Pushed For By Congress

New York Times | Scott Shane | Posted 10.09.2009 | 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 09.21.2009 | 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 09.19.2009 | Politics


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

Why David Broder Is Wrong

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Rep. John Conyers

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

Broder Sees Too Many Consequences To CIA Accountability

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


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

Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


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

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

David Danzig | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


David Danzig

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

Report Reveals Cheney Misled About "Trained Interrogators"

Rawstory.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


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...

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

John H. Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


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.

Inside The CIA's haphazard Interrogation Program

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


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...

'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

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


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

CIA Abuse Investigation Likely: Holder Poised To Appoint Criminal Prosecutor

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


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 ...

US Might Create Terror Interrogation Team

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics


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

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

Robert Guttman | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


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.

Shirley and the CIA

Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home


Norman Horowitz

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

Advocacy Groups Say Torture Memo Authors Should Be Disbarred

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


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

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

Frank Naif | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


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.

Obama Torture Task Force Considers Reducing CIA Role In Interrogations

The Washington Independant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics


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...

Internal Government Report To Detail CIA Interrogations, Secret Detention

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics


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 ...

Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Politico | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


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

Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


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...

Cheney Led Briefings Of Members Of Congress To Defend Interrogation Techniques

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


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

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

The Plumline | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


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....