Enhanced Interrogations

Torture Plagiarism

David Misch | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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David Misch

It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?

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Torture Loophole: 'Water Treatment' Versus Waterboarding

Think Progress | Posted 05.22.2008 | 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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George Bush: I Was Aware Of Harsh Tactics Meetings

ABC News | JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be...

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Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...

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Gitmo Interrogator Describes Tactics

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...

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Scalia: "Absurd" To Say The Government Can't "Smack" A Suspect

Think Progress | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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Today in an interview with BBC Radio's Law in Action, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture, claiming that it is not necessarily ...

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FBI Team Reinterrogated CIA Suspects To Get "Clean" Intel

Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...

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Former Spy Chief Confirms US Did Waterboard Detainees

Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most ex...

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Judge Wants Answers on CIA Videotapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to his court case, and he gave the Bush admi...

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Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...

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Judge On CIA Tapes: "It Boggles The Mind"

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...

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Kit Bond Tries To Backpedal From Waterboarding Comments

Crooks and Liars | Nicolle Bell | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swim...

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Bush Administration Was Court Ordered Not To Destroy Torture Evidence

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

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The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...

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Will Thomas

Congressman Calls For Special Counsel Over CIA Tapes

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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Someone call Patrick Fitzgerald. Today Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey requesting the immediate appointment of a speci...

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CIA Director To Testify About Destroyed Videotapes

Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...

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White House Goes Silent On Destroyed CIA Tapes

CBS News | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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As Congress seeks answers about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, White House lawyers have advised President Bush's ...

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Don't Start Without Me

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

The egregious redactions and erasures made by Bush are not only in violation of the Presidential Records Act, they are an effront to Congress, the Constitution, and international law.

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Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...

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Huckabee, Dems To Meet With Retired Officers On Torture

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee so far is the only Republican presidential candidate scheduled to meet in Iowa with a group of retired generals and...

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Ashcroft On Waterboading: 'It's Not Something I Can Make A Decision On'

Think Progress | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Last night, John Ashcroft delivered an address on the Cornell University campus "in the face of shouting dissenters and shrouded protesters." At his l...

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Gimme Shelter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

The U.S. has now become the dumping ground of choice for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, principally because we lack the laws necessary to prosecute them.

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Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.

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Torture American Style

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Philip Giraldi

The increasing tendency to designate critics as enemies or allies of terrorists suggests that the worldview of 1936 Berlin is not so far removed from that of 2007 Washington.

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