WASHINGTON — In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five mon...
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The ...
Donna Schaper | Posted 05.25.2011
Breaking news that physicians were involved in medical experiments on people already being tortured leads us again to a place beyond right and wrong. That place is called sin.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Arguments used by Bush administration lawyers in their memos authorizing waterboarding and other forms of torture were based on "appreciably overstate...
Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama should pardon not only Mr. Cheney, but everyone else in the prior administration who approved or knew about the illegal water-boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.
Paul Begala | Posted 05.25.2011
It's kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime when you hanged someone for doing it to our troops.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
No matter how horrified we may be by the actions of Jay S. Bybee, John Yoo & Company, it is too convenient to distance ourselves from what they did by explaining it away as Rovian evil.
FireDogLake | EmptyWheel | Posted 05.25.2011
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as...
Wall Street Journal | EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interro...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...
Salon | Posted 05.25.2011
Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...
NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda priso...
Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid busines...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using ...
Politico | Daniel Reilly | Posted 05.25.2011
The Justice Department announced it has launched an investigation into who authorized the use of waterboarding at the department, following a request ...
NY Times | Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Twenty-seven years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.'s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator f...
Associated Press | Laurie Kellman | Posted 05.25.2011
A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique ...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said ...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, at 10:30 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to bring to the floor the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report. One ...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal _ not tortu...
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011