Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

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Bush Interrogators Used "Abdominal Slaps" To "Instill Fear And Despair"

Raw Story | Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abdominal Slaps, Bush Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Detainee Interrogation Techniques, Bush Detainee Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Bush Enhanced Interrogations, Detainee Torture, Politics News

The following article was produced by The Raw Story and written by Larisa Alexandrovna. Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration i...

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Mohammed al-Qahtani Torture Tapes To Be Released To Detainee's Lawyers

Washington Post | Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee Interrogation Tapes, Guantanamo Detainee Torture, Interrogation Tapes Disclosed, Bush Enhanced Interrogation, Mohommed Al-Qahtani, Terror Suspect Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Detainee Abuse, Judge Release Interrogation Tapes, Guantanamo Bay Detainee Abuse, Detainee Torture, Politics News

A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and o...

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My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Ahmad Chalabi, Bush Administration Torture, Saddam Hussein, David Petraeus, Paul Bremer, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Torture, Iraq, General Petraeus, Chalabi, Torture, World News

In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.

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Supreme Court Considers Bush Terror Policies Obama Defends

McClatchy | Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Guantanamo, Bush Enhanced Interrogation, Obama Bush Terror, Obama Guantanamo, President Obama, Supreme Court, Bush Terror Policies, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Terror Detainees, Politics News

Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national-security legal dilemma. O...

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "#!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Dia, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Eric Maddox, Matthew Alexander, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Richard Cohen, Iraq, Stuart Herrington, Torture, Politics News

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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Sound and Fury: The Cheney Show

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Wallace, Bush Administration, Liz Cheney, George Stephanapoulos, Bush Administration and Torture, Fox News, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Cheney and Torture, Richard Cheney, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

If I were Dick Cheney I'd probably be doing exactly what Dick Cheney is doing. It beats going to prison.

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Whitehouse Calls For Wider Criminal Probe Of Torture

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration, Waterboarding, Sheldon Whitehouse, Cia, Eric Holder, Politics News

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the former U.S. Attorney who's been pointing out for more than a year that waterboarding is and always has been tort...

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Interrogations, Abuse, Vice President Cheney, Torture, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, National Security, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney Speech, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Ksm, Dick Cheney Speech, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Our greatest success in this conflict was achieved without torture or abuse. My interrogation team found Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using relationship-building approaches and non-coercive law enforcement techniques.

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Pelosi Confronts That Age-Old Question

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Jay Rockefeller, Pelosi and Republicans, Pelosi and Torture, Pelosi and CIA, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Briefings, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Bob Graham, Pelosi and Torture Briefings, Congress and Torture, Senate, Financial Crisis, Politics News

In newsrooms and studios, hearts are a-twitter/The sharks begin circling, they've spotted their prey,/There's sweat on your forehead, there's blood in the water,/They're ready to rip into each word you say.

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White House Authorized Earliest Detainee Abuse, CIA Log Says

NPR | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eit, Cia, President George Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Politics News

It is clear that increasingly abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee, in the months between his cap...

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"Unpleasant Things"

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Proliferation, AQ Khan, Dick Cheney, Cheney Torture Speech, Unplesant Things, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Torture, Politics News

Buried deep within the former Vice President's chest-thumping speech defending the Enhanced... excuse me, the Unpleasant Things Program was a bizarre boast.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Miss California Vows to Use Her Naked Breasts for Good

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.12.2009 | Comedy

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Ms. Prejean blasted the critics whom she claimed tried to silence her for her views on gay marriage, saying, "I intend to fight back with the two greatest weapons I have: my naked boobies."

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The Price of Freedom

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, CIA Interrogations, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The enduring question is whether a small group of people in power have the right to redefine the nature of America's core values and ideals through policy decisions made under the cover of secrecy.

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Bob Graham: I Was Never Briefed On Waterboarding

The Plumline | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tourture, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Former Senator Bob Graham, Waterboarding, Bob Graham, Torture Memos, Eit, Politics News

Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not b...

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Cheney To Travel Around Country In Sound Truck

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Waterboarding, Andy Borowitz, New Hampshire, Torture, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Cheney Bullhorn, Comedy News

According to aides to the former vice president, Mr. Cheney had briefly considered starring in an IMAX film called "The Dick Cheney 3-D Experience" before settling on the less costly sound truck idea.

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Retired Brigadier General: Those Who Approved Torture "Must Be Held Accountable"

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Waterboarding, US Army, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Harsh Interrogation Methods, Ee, Politics News

Says Adams: "I have never known anyone in a leadership position in the military who would condone torture. They would never do it... which is to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law."

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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