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Torture Memos Used "Overstated" "Exaggerated" Information From CIA

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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Arguments used by Bush administration lawyers in their memos authorizing waterboarding and other forms of torture were based on "appreciably overstate...

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Second Thoughts on Cheney Indictment: Pardon Him ... And Others Too

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

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.

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Yes, National Review, We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding

Paul Begala | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Paul Begala

It's kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime when you hanged someone for doing it to our troops.

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Bye Bye Bybee

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

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.

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CIA Waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 Times In One Month

FireDogLake | EmptyWheel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

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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...

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CIA Officials Won't Be Prosecuted For Waterboarding, Obama Admin Says

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as...

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Obama Weighs Airing CIA Tactics: Top Officials At Odds

Wall Street Journal | EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interro...

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2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...

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

NY Times | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda priso...

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CIA Vet: Next President May Have To Scrap Agency

Washington Independent | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Torture Loophole: 'Water Treatment' Versus Waterboarding

Think Progress | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...

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Bush to Veto Bill Banning Waterboarding

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using ...

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Justice Department Announces Investigation Into Waterboarding, Torture Memo

Politico | Daniel Reilly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The Justice Department announced it has launched an investigation into who authorized the use of waterboarding at the department, following a request ...

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Former Gitmo Prosecutor: I Resigned To Prevent Waterboarding As Evidence

NY Times | Morris Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Justice Department: Waterboarding Not Legal

Associated Press | Laurie Kellman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique ...

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Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding

AP | PAMELA HESS and LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, ...

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Will McCain Vote Against Waterboarding Today?

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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 ...

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UN Says Waterboarding Should Be Prosecuted As Torture

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said ...

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CIA Boss: Waterboarding May Be Illegal

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...

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White House Defends Use Of Waterboarding

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal _ not tortu...

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CIA: Waterboarding Used On Only 3 Detainees

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director...

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Three Men Waterboard Themselves And Tell The Terrible Tale

Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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