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Thomson Prison Will Likely Be Next Stop For Gitmo Detainees, Says Obama Administration

Washington Post | Peter Slevin and Peter Finn | Posted 12.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO -- Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will p...

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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Dick Durbin, Gregory Craig, George Tenet, Interrogation, Gregg Craig, Greg Craig, Uighur, Close Gitmo, Obama, Lawyer, Campaign, Interrogation Techniques, Democrats, Uighurs, Gitmo, White House, Closing Gitmo, Rahm Emanuel, Republicants, White House Counsel, Gop, Sleep Deprivation, Torture Memos, Politics News

Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Antivilai, Al-Qaada, Lithuania, Cia, Interrogation, Dalia Grybauskaite, Horses, Taliban, Llc, Rendition, Riding Academy, Vilnius, Nato, Human Rights, Prison, Elite, Elite Llc, Black Site, Cia Torture Prison, Horse Academy, Horseback Riding, Stable, Interrogation Tactics, Torture, World News

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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The Next Generation of American Interrogators

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Iraq, Interrogation, Torture, CIA Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

There are two areas in particular where interrogators would benefit from improvement. The first is in adapting non-coercive criminal interrogation techniques. The second is the realm of cultural knowledge.

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Public Enemies and the Invention of Video

Paul Snyder | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Public Enemies, Depression, Interrogation, Michael Mann, Violence, Pretty Boy Floyd, Recession, Gangsters, Guns, Christian Bale, John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard, Melvin Purvis, Spectacle, Digital-Film, Baby Face Nelson, Myrna Loy, Johnny Depp, Anachronism, Torture, Independent Films, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

For all of director Michael Mann's aesthetic sophistication, the film's spontaneity runs roughshod over a lot of true history.

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A 9/11 Reality Check

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Hiroshima, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Vietnam, Anniversary, World War II, World Trade Center, Politics News
Robert Scheer

What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...

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McCain Backs Torture as Recruiting Tool for Al Qaida; Policy Led to the Deaths of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, War on Terorrism, Cheney, Interrogation, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

I was the first to say that the policy of torture and abuse was directly linked to U.S. deaths in Iraq. It's a hard pill to swallow, but true.

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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, CIA Interrogations, Torture, Obama Justice Department, Guantanamo Detainees, Interrogation, Obama, Justice Department, Rendition, High-Value Detainee, Interrogation Group, HIG, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...

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CIA Conducted Mock Executions, Reveals New Report

Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Interrogation, Guantanamo, CIA Mock Executions, Torture, Detainees, Politics News

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock ex...

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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Bush, Interrogation, Torture, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama sharply criticized the Bush Administration's extr...

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Holder's Possible Inquiry On CIA Interrogation A Defining Gesture Of Independence From Obama

NY Times | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Cia, Eric Holder Attorney General, Interrogation, Attorney General, Torture, Politics News

As the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., debates whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the interrogations of terrorism suspects ...

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The American Psychological Association and Torture: The Day the Tide Turned

Bryant Welch | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, American Psychological Association, Psychology, Interrogation, Bush Administration, Torture, Politics News
Bryant Welch

How the APA turned psychology away from humanitarian values is a study in organizational failure and professional disaster.

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UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Obama Administration Over Detainee Treatment

The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation, United Nations, Guantanamo Detainees, Navanethem Pillay, Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Obama, Un, Barack Obama, Detainees, Politics News

The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...

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How Obama's Speech Makes Us Safer

Matthew Alexander | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Iraq, Terrorism, Interrogation, Obama's Speech in Cairo, World News
Matthew Alexander

His quoting of the Quran was monumental in bridging the divide between Western and Muslim cultures and ensuring our cooperation against extremists.

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General Ricardo Sanchez Calls for War Crimes Truth Commission - VIDEO UPDATE

Jack Hidary | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, General Sanchez, Interrogation, Ron Suskind, Truth Commission, Rachel Maddow, Enhanced Interrogations, Center for Constituional Rights, Abu Graib, Torture, One Percent Solution, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jack Hidary

Last night, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, became the first senior military officer from the Iraqi theater to call for a truth commission.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup Inc., “No Holds Barred”, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Secret Ballot Elections, Wal-Mart, Union Organizers, Interrogation, Threats, Cornell University, Employee Free Choice Act, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Surveillance, Stewart Acuff, Usw, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, American Middle Class, Home Depot, National Labor Relations Board, Harassment, National Labor Relations Act, Efca, Aig, Bank of America, Public Sector, Bailout Money, Nlrb, Glenn Spencer, Bernie Marcus, Randel K. Johnson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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Obama Really Had No Choice on Torture Pictures

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Army, Torture Photos, Cia, Bush, National Security, Iraqi Prisoners, Terrorism, Interrogation, President Obama, Gop, Military Preparedness, John McCain, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama's decision was based on a recognition that he's a young, untested, and perceived liberal Democrat, and therefore widely suspected as weak on national security and military toughness.

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If We're Going to Reveal More Memos

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Memos, Iraq, Interrogation, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

I had one detainee in Iraq say that the reason he was going to cooperate was because we didn't torture him and because of that, he knew everything that he'd been told about us by Al Qaida was wrong.

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What the Hell Have We Become?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Mike Papantonio

Rather than two convictions, non-Gitmo prosecutors have had 148 successful trials and convictions of terrorists.

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CIA Docs Unclear On Whether Pelosi Knew About Waterboarding

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harsh Interrogation Tactics, Interrogation, Harsh Interrogation Methods, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

WASHINGTON — CIA records show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on harsh interrogation techniques being used on terrorist...

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Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn't Torture If a Doctor Is There

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Doctors, Detainees, War on Terror, Cia, Medicine, Psychologists, CIA Interrogations, Interrogation, Nuremberg Code, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News
Sheri Fink

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.

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CIA Tapes Mystery Will Have a Very Long Run

Jeff Stein | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Stein

Don't expect the CIA to turn over the family jewels on its interrogation videotapes to the American Civil Liberties Union, just because it lost a legal round this week.

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Basic Algebra: What Will the Verdict Be?

John Cusack | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

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John Cusack

Try them, and let a jury decide. We know ours is not a nation of cowards. What will our leaders do?

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Retiring CIA Inspector General Faces Suit Over Conduct of Office

Jeff Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Stein

John L. Helgerson, the CIA's controversial inspector general, may be finally leaving the spy agency after three decades, but he will not be fading back into the shadows.

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