Torture Memos Used "Overstated" "Exaggerated" Information From CIA
Arguments used by Bush administration lawyers in their memos authorizing waterboarding and other forms of torture were based on "appreciably overstate...
Arguments used by Bush administration lawyers in their memos authorizing waterboarding and other forms of torture were based on "appreciably overstate...
Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
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 05.25.2009 | Politics
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 05.21.2009 | Politics
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 05.19.2009 | Politics
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 05.17.2009 | Politics
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 05.15.2009 | Politics
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 08.01.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...
Salon | Posted 07.25.2008 | 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 07.19.2008 | 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 07.09.2008 | 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 05.30.2008 | Politics
In February, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency used waterboarding on three al Qaeda suspects. But revelations from a former detain...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal _ not tortu...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics