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 07.17.2008 | Politics
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 07.11.2008 | Politics
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 07.01.2008 | Politics
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 05.22.2008 | Politics
In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...
Scott Atran | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
Given America's singular military and cultural power in today's world, no less than the future of 250 years of human rights development rests on how this internal American battle over torture is resolved.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
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 02.22.2008 | Politics
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 02.17.2008 | Politics
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 02.14.2008 | Politics
A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique ...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, ...
Think Progress | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
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 02.08.2008 | Home
The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
In light of the comments made by CIA sources in 2005, I can only wonder how it's feasible for Michael Hayden to assert that waterboarding was restricted to three "high-value" detainees.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal _ not tortu...
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Okay, we've moved the ball a little bit on the subject of waterboarding. After an unseemly period of dodges and feints adding up to "We don't torture...
Reuters | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director...
Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
One night last month, Jean-Pierre Larroque drove into the desert here, lay down in the road and waited for one of his best friends to waterboard him. ...
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Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics