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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reaper-Drones, New America Foundation, Central Intelligence Agency, The New Yorker, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Predator, Zardari, New Yorker, Cia, Jane Mayer, Pakistani Government, Predator Drones, Politics News

The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, John Bellinger, Jane Mayer, Cia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Gitmo, World News
Andy Worthington

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess - and It's a Mess

Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Corruption, Jeppesen Dataplan, Foia, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Torture, Iraq Contractors, Mitchell Jessen & Associates, Outsourcing, Dusty Foggo, House Intelligence Committee, Dni, Booz Allen Hamilton, Classified Contracts, Jane Mayer, Cia, Private Security Contractors, Defense Contractors, Waste, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Leon Panetta, FOIA Requests, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paranoid, 9'11 Attacks, Cia, Leon Panetta, Justice Department Memo, Congressional Record, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Gas Mask, Dick Cheney, " Al Qaeda, Misleading Congress, George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Slam Dunk, Unnerved, "The Dark Side, Lying, Colin Powell, Overcompensated, Tom Ricks, Jeffrey Record, Biological Survival Suit, Valerie Plame, John Kuriakou, Bob Graham, Lawrence Wilkerson, Saddam Hussein, Jane Mayer, Air War College, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Waterboarding, ABC News, Michael Scheuer, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News
Andy Worthington

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Thailand, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Fbi, Steven Bradbury, Dick Cheney, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics, Jay Bybee, Sere, Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, R. Scott Shumate, Sleep Deprivation, Cia Music Torture, Colin Powell, Music Torture, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, David Addington, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Jane Mayer, George Tenet, American Torture, Ron Suskind, James Risen, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Waterboarding, William J. Haynes II, International Committee of the Red Cross, Torture Memos, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Intelligence Investigations Should Target Top Deciders

Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Ron Wyden, Wyden Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Senate Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Gitmo, Rendition, House Intelligence Committee, Jane Mayer, Truth and Reconciliation, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Obama Gitmo Order, Extraordinary Rendition, 100 Days, Oregon, Politics News
Frank Naif

Making sure that ordinary national security drones aren't vilified or set up to take the fall for their bosses today will strengthen tomorrow's national security.

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Just What This Heartsick American Needed: A Republican Beacon for Civil Liberties

David Quigg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, The Dark Side, Warrantless Wiretapping, Civil Liberties, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Ronald Rotunda, Guantanamo, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, War on Terror, Habeas Corpus, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Jane Mayer, Kyndra Rotunda, Detainee Abuse, Enhanced Interrogations, Constitution, Torture, Politics News
David Quigg

A Republican almost made me burst into tears. In a good way. Gov. Kean's specifics are a reminder of how much is at stake now and of how bad things have been since 9/11.

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This Week in Magazines: Dirty Elections Edition

James Warren | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time, The New Yorker, Jane Mayer, New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Jane Mayer Palin, Obama Miami, Media News
James Warren

"Mouthwash!" might be a reaction to the hand-wringing over this "nasty" campaign season -- but check out Foreign Policy and the New Yorker. We don't know dirty.

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News
David Quigg

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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White House Ignored CIA On Guantanamo Detainees' Innocence, New Book Says

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jane Mayer, Cia, Books, Bush Administration, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...

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John McCain, Torture Puppet

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, Mark Fallon, John McCain, Jane Mayer, Cia, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, US Torture, Senate Committee on Armed Services, William J. Haynes II, Carl Levin, Fbi, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.

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