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Former US Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Killed Thousands Of US Soldiers

AlterNet | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Amy Goodman: Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq t...

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Truth and Reconciliation

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

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Criminal prosecutions of the members of the Bush administration will not enable us to do what we most need to do, which is to gain a full public understanding of what was done over the past eight years.

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Interrogation Tactics Were Challenged By Career Lawyer

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson and Josh White | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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

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George Bush: I Was Aware Of Harsh Tactics Meetings

ABC News | JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

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

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Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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. ...

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CIA Confirms Rendition Flights to Brits

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Gitmo Interrogator Describes Tactics

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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FBI Team Reinterrogated CIA Suspects To Get "Clean" Intel

Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Former Spy Chief Confirms US Did Waterboard Detainees

Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Gonzales, Cheney's Lawyer Plotted Over CIA Torture Tapes

New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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

TPMmuckraker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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"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...

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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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Bush Threatens To Veto Bill That Bans Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Bush Administration Was Court Ordered Not To Destroy Torture Evidence

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Senate Panel Says Gaps Remain After CIA Tapes Testimony

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Congressman Calls For Special Counsel Over CIA Tapes

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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

ABC News | Martha Raddatz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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CIA Director To Testify About Destroyed Videotapes

Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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

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CIA, Department Of Justice Begin Probe Of Interrogation Videotape Destruction

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The Justice Department and CIA announced a joint inquiry Saturday into the spy agency's destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected t...

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CIA Deletes Your Season Pass To Its Interrogations

23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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In 2005, the CIA destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two al-Qaeda operatives, just as Congress was looking into the age...

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CIA Was Told To Keep Interrogation Tapes

New York Times | Mark Mazzetti | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 against a plan to...

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CIA Recorded Interrogations Of Top Al Qaida Captives

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the cas...

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