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 Obama: 
 Waterboarding Is Torture 


Apr 29, 09 9:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama said tonight that waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques may have yielded useful information, but he said "we could have gotten this information in other ways—in ways that are consistent with our values," Politico reports. The techniques—"I do believe that it is torture,"... More »

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torture • press conference • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • President Obama

Olbermann Dogs Hannity Over Waterboarding

Fox host silent on MSNBC rival's
$1K-per-second offer

Apr 29, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Olbermann isn’t letting up as he pushes Sean Hannity to follow through on an offer to be waterboarded for charity, the AP reports. On his show Monday, the MSNBC host again urged his Fox rival to make good on the pledge, though how serious Hannity was isn't clear.... More »

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torture • MSNBC • charity • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Sean Hannity • waterboarding

House Dems Want to Impeach Judge for Torture Memos

GOP, Obama can't halt proceeding vs. Bybee

Apr 28, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats may start a constitutional confrontation over the fate of Judge Jay Bybee, and there’s nothing anybody—not even lukewarm President Obama—can do to stop them, reports Politico. As liberal think-tanker John Podesta argues, Bybee “authorized things that were illegal under US law” when he wrote... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • torture • impeachment • House of Representatives • John Conyers • Jerrold Nadler • waterboarding • House Democrats • George W. Bush • Obama administration • John Podesta • President Obama • Jay Bybee

ANALYSIS

Waterboarding Isn't Easier 2nd Time, or 183rd

Turns out the body never gets used to simulated drowning

Apr 24, 09 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like many other forms of torture, waterboarding doesn’t get any easier with repeated exposure. After multiple sessions of the simulated drowning technique, accused al-Qaeda plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah would at best have been able to slightly modify their response, explains Brian Palmer in Slate. The experience... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • intestines • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • detainees • torture memo

A Grand for Every Second He's Tortured

Olbermann ready to shell out to see Hannity waterboarded

Apr 24, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may have been an attention-seeking stunt when Sean Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded. If so, it worked, at least to get the attention of Keith Olbermann, who kept the long-running MSNBC/Fox pundit-smackdown going last night by putting money on the table. Olbermann offered to give $1,000 to military... More »

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 Hannity: Waterboard Me! Lefties: Sure! 

He'd undergo grueling 'enhanced interrogation' technique for charity

Apr 23, 09 6:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Right-wing Fox mouth Sean Hannity said he supports "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding, and has offered to undergo the grueling procedure for charity. "Are you busy on Sunday?" guest Charles Grodin asked yesterday. Hannity responded: "I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do... More »

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torture • politics • interrogation • Fox • Sean Hannity • waterboarding • Charles Grodin

 Condi Was 
 First to OK 
 Waterboarding 

Condi gave go-ahead before Rumsfeld, Powell even knew about it: Senate

Apr 23, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice played a greater role than she has acknowledged in the CIA's harsh interrogation program, and approved the use of waterboarding, according to a newly released report from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report finds that Rice, as national security adviser, verbally approved the CIA's request to waterboard a... More »

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Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • Senate Intelligence Committee • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • torture memo

US Readied Waterboarding as Early as 2001

Harsh tactics were readied even before suspects captured

Apr 22, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration prepared to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics widely considered to be torture 8 months before the Justice Department approved them, and even before capturing a high-level terrorist suspect, the Washington Post reports. A Senate investigation reveals these brutal interrogation methods were approved despite warnings that they... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • secret prisons • Carl Levin • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • Senate Armed Services Committee

(Newser) - President Obama's own intelligence chief said harsh interrogations of terror suspects yielded "high value information" that "provided a deeper understanding" of al-Qaeda, the New York Times reports. Dennis Blair made the statement in a memo to his staff last week, the same day the Obama administration released the... More »

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torture • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • Director of National Intelligence • Dennis Blair

Cheney Seeks Release of More CIA Memos

Former VP says they show how techniques worked to save lives

Apr 21, 09 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s no surprise that Dick Cheney thinks President Obama is wrong on torture. The surprise is that the infamously secretive former VP is suddenly in favor of public disclosure of classified memos that he thinks will prove his point. For his memoirs, Cheney has asked the CIA to declassify... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • waterboarding • al-Qaeda • President Obama • Stephen Bradbury

(AP) - Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters today to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees. "I acted primarily because of the exceptional circumstances that surrounded these... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • waterboarding • CIA director • memo

CIA Tactics Can Cause Mental Harm: Doctors

Bush-era interrogation memos understated long-term effects

Apr 20, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Experts disagree with Bush-era rulings, made public in memos released last week, that interrogation techniques the CIA used on terror suspects don’t cause lasting psychological damage, the Los Angeles Times reports. “There’s absolutely no question they are going to lead to permanent mental harm,” one psychology... More »

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torture • mental health • psychology • brain damage • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • neurons

 CIA Waterboarded Gitmo 
 Detainee 183 Times in a Month 

That's twice CIA's max, challenges efficacy

Apr 19, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Department of Justice memo that detailed interrogation techniques used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay notes that in August 2002, suspected al-Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 82 times, while the following March, 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. But as the blog Emptywheel points out, there's... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • memo

(AP) - Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records. Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, and John Deutch all called the White House last month warning that... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • waterboarding • torture memo • CIA director

 Obama Releases Bush 
 Memos Detailing Torture 

Justice docs released detail OK'd techniques

Apr 16, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Bush-era memo on interrogation techniques acknowledged that waterboarding represented a “threat of imminent death,” but that the simulated-drowning procedure was not torture because it caused no lasting psychological harm, Reuters reports. The Justice Department memo and three others on interrogations were released to the public today—and... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • torture memo • public disclosure

(AP) - Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said today that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted. Obama officials also released four secret memos detailing tactics against 28... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • waterboarding • Eric Holder • Obama administration

Obama May Keep CIA Torture Memos Classified

Bush-era docs give
OK for waterboarding

Apr 15, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration faces a tough call on whether to declassify Bush-era Justice Department memos that outline harsh CIA interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, the Wall Street Journal reports. The president is still reviewing internal arguments but is leaning toward keeping the most sensitive documents classified, insiders say. More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • terrorism • interrogation • waterboarding • Obama administration • President Obama

 Red Cross: 
 Med Workers 
 Complicit in 
 Gitmo Torture 

Professionals told CIA interrogators to stop, go

Apr 7, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Red Cross is accusing medical personnel of deep involvement in CIA torture at Guantanamo, calling it “a gross breach of medical ethics,” the New York Times reports. Medical professionals monitored procedures such as waterboarding, telling interrogators to “continue, to adjust, or stop particular methods,” finds... More »

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torture • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • International Committee of the Red Cross • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • medical ethics

(Newser) - A top Spanish court is close to investigating six former Bush administration officials for circumventing international law to justify torture at Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times reports. Judge Baltasar Garzon, a human rights crusader who has gone after former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet, is reviewing the case, which could... More »

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torture • Alberto Gonzales • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • Gitmo

 Senate to Probe Bush-Era CIA 

Inquiry to focus on controversial interrogation and detention program

Feb 27, 09 4:22 AM CST
(Newser) - The Senate Intelligence Committee plans a sweeping investigation into the CIA's actions under President Bush, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials say the probe is a fact-finding mission rather than an investigation into whether laws were broken, but the inquiry is certain to put the spotlight back on the agency's... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • CIA • secret prisons • Senate Intelligence Committee • counterterrorism • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • Leon Panetta

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