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2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...

Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

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...

Red Cross: CIA Tortured, Officials Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes

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...

CIA Vet: Next President May Have To Scrap Agency

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...

Torture Loophole: 'Water Treatment' Versus Waterboarding

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...

Waterboarding Our Sacred Rights

Scott Atran | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


Scott Atran

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.

Bush to Veto Bill Banning Waterboarding

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 ...

Justice Department Announces Investigation Into Waterboarding, Torture Memo

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 ...

Former Gitmo Prosecutor: I Resigned To Prevent Waterboarding As Evidence

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...

Justice Department: Waterboarding Not Legal

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 ...

Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding

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, ...

Will McCain Vote Against Waterboarding Today?

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 ...

UN Says Waterboarding Should Be Prosecuted As Torture

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 ...

CIA Boss: Waterboarding May Be Illegal

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 ...

Waterboarding: Two Questions for Michael Hayden about Three "High-Value" Detainees Now in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

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.

White House Defends Use Of Waterboarding

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...

Waterboarding: The Best Defense

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics


Harry Shearer

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...

CIA: Waterboarding Used On Only 3 Detainees

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...

Three Men Waterboard Themselves And Tell The Terrible Tale

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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