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(Newser) - Two-thirds of Americans want an investigation into alleged Bush administration misdeeds, including torture and warrantless wiretapping, a USA Today/Gallup poll shows. Forty percent of respondents would like to see criminal probes; one-quarter would prefer investigations without the possibility of criminal charges. And even more—70% of those surveyed—said... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Department of Justice • US attorney firings • warrantless wiretapping • waterboarding • George W. Bush • criminal investigation • opinion polls • Obama administration • President Obama • truth commission

Torture Lawyer Flees Berkeley Amid Protests 

Law prof takes 1-year gig at OC's Chapman U.

Feb 11, 09 11:48 AM CST
(Newser) - It can be hard to be a professor: publish or perish, sit on committees…dodge protesters? Just ask John Yoo, author of the memos that laid out and justified the harsh interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration. Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, has taken leave from his left-leaning professional... More »

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California • torture • UC Berkeley • Berkeley • Chapman University • waterboarding • John Yoo • Berkeley Law School • torture memo

(Newser) - Barack Obama is set to prohibit waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques by mandating the CIA follow the US Army Field Manual when questioning suspects, the AP reports. But as the president-elect debates whether to make the changes through legislation or presidential fiat, the incoming administration is also considering a... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • US military • US Army • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • Army Field Manual • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Exit Interviews Reveal 
 Bush-Cheney Differences 

VP defiant, combative as president adopts gracious, reflective tone

Dec 25, 08 8:05 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are displaying strikingly different attitudes toward their time in power as its end looms, the New York Times reports. Bush is reflective, acknowledging regrets and speaking graciously of his successor. Cheney, meanwhile, is defiant to the end, defending policies like waterboarding and letting slip... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • torture • waterboarding • George W. Bush • President Obama

 Cheney: I OK'd Waterboarding 

VP gave go ahead for 'remarkably successful' tactic

Dec 16, 08 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney personally approved using waterboarding to interrogate 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he reveals in a wide-ranging interview on ABC News. "I was  involved in helping get the process cleared. The agency came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do," said... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Dick Cheney • torture • Karl Rove • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation • WMD • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • weapons of mass destruction • George W. Bush

ANALYSIS

Obama's In for an Awkward
CIA Transition

His tough campaign rhetoric sets tone as left looks for change

Dec 3, 08 12:08 PM CST
(Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama frequently railed against the CIA’s secret jails and harsh interrogation techniques. Now, he must lead the agency, and the transition’s already proving rocky, the New York Times reports. Liberal outcry derailed his rumored pick for director, John Brennan. Brennan was chief... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • George Tenet • secret prisons • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • President Obama • John Brennan

OPINION

 Make Your Case 
 on Anti-Terror, 
 Mr. Bush 

Bill Kristol thinks America will listen

Nov 29, 08 2:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Republicans have fallen out of favor, and there’s probably nothing George W. Bush can say in his final days to change that. “But he could do his party—and the nation—a service by reminding Americans of our successes fighting the war on terror,” writes William Kristol.... More »

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War on Terror • counterterrorism • warrantless wiretapping • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • George W. Bush


Obama's Top CIA Pick
Drops Out

Brennan withdraws under pressure but denies backing torture

Nov 26, 08 4:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's top intelligence adviser and his first choice for CIA director has withdrawn his name from consideration, the Los Angeles Times reports. John Brennan, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, was branded by some liberal groups as a proponent of the harsh interrogation techniques used against terrorist suspects... More »

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CIA • torture • waterboarding • George J. Tenet • transition • Obama administration • President Obama • CIA director • John Brennan

Secret White House
Memos OK'd Waterboarding

Fearing backlash, CIA sought and received support

Oct 15, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration gave its blessing in writing for the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques in two secret memos that have only now come to light, the Washington Post reveals. Intelligence officials sought to get something on paper in 2003—more than a year after the... More »

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CIA • torture • John Ashcroft • interrogation • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • George J. Tenet • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • George W. Bush

analysis

Coney Island Gets Political With Waterboarding Demo

New sideshow installation protests torture

Aug 12, 08 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Coney Island's politically charged addition to its sideshow lineup—two animatronic figures demonstrating how waterboarding works—"is disturbing in a way that journalistic accounts of torture can only approximate," writes Jeremy Gerard of Bloomberg. "It left me wrecked." For $1, spectators can peer through a barred... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • Coney Island • waterboarding • Gitmo • sideshow

OPINION

Send Blue Dogs to Pound, Elect Real Democrats

Conservative bloc to blame for majority's ineffective Congress

Jul 29, 08 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Democratic Congress has bowed to President Bush on Iraq, waterboarding and FISA, and Glenn Greenwald of Salon says enough is enough. With the help of progressive bloggers, he’s campaigning against so-called “Blue Dog” Dems, hoping to teach the party’s conservatives that they will “lose seats... More »

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Steny Hoyer • FISA • waterboarding • Blue Dog Democrats

GLOSSIES

 Hitchens Agrees: 
 Waterboarding Is Torture 

Controversial writer puts his money where his mouth is, takes plunge for Vanity Fair

Jul 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - "You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it simulates the feeling of drowning," Christopher Hitchens writes of waterboarding in Vanity Fair. "You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning," concludes the author, who experienced the controversial... More »

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Iraq • torture • Christopher Hitchens • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • military training

 Gitmo Prisoner
 Charged in
 Cole Bombing 

Torture claims will be central to defense

Jul 1, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suspected al-Qaeda terrorist held at Guantanamo Bay for six years has been charged with masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors and injured 50 others. The treatment of Saudi prisoner Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri in custody, which included waterboarding by interrogators, will be a... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • torture • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • al-Qaeda • USS Cole • Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri • Office of Military Commissions

 'Good Cop'
 Enticed 9/11
 Mastermind to Talk 

But detainee had already faced waterboarding

Jun 22, 08 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A CIA interrogator’s rapport with a mastermind of the 9/11 attacks helped provide vast amounts of information on terrorism while raising tough questions about interrogation methods, the New York Times reports. Agent Deuce Martinez cajoled Khalid Sheikh Mohammed into discussing his thoughts in great detail—but it’s unclear... More »

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CIA • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • intelligence agencies

Alleged 9/11 Leader Faces Gitmo Tribunal

Doubts about fairness attend trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Jun 5, 08 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, will be arraigned today at a special military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, reports the Washington Post. Five years after his arrest in Pakistan, the detainee and four others will appear in a specially designed, $4 million courtroom to... More »

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torture • military tribunal • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding

Ex-Detainee Describes
Gitmo Tortures

He was beaten,
hung from ceiling,
shocked with electricity

May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was... More »

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War on Terror • torture • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Kandahar • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation

Judge Orders CIA to Release 'Torture' Memo

Key document said to outline waterboarding techniques

May 9, 08 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge has ordered the CIA to release a 2002 memo believed to outline interrogation methods that may amount to torture. The ACLU, which brought the suit sparking the order, claims that the memo details harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, and calls it "one of the most important... More »

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CIA • torture • ACLU • civil liberties • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • torture memo

 Showdown Looms
 Over Cheney Staffer 

VP battling House subpoena for key aide on interrogation policy

May 7, 08 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whether a key Dick Cheney aide can be forced to testify is at the heart of a pending blow-up between Congress and the White House over a probe into interrogation techniques, Reuters reports. The House Judiciary Committee plans to subpoena Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington—but the vice president... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • John Ashcroft • House Judiciary Committee • executive privilege • subpoena • Josh Bolten • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • David Addington • harsh interrogation

Waterboarding at Work Heads
to Utah Court

Employee alleges torture; company calls it 'team-building exercise'

Apr 14, 08 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Utah sales rep is suing his company after his boss waterboarded him as a “team-building exercise” outside a Provo office park, the Washington Post reports. Sure, the man volunteered, but he says he had no idea what he getting himself into. “I’m not getting any air,... More »

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torture • lawsuit • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • team building

CIA's Legal Troubles Grow Over Tapes' Destruction

Agency faces growing number of challenges from detainees

Mar 28, 08 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA's decision to destroy interrogation videotapes to save itself legal trouble is backfiring in a big way, the New York Times reports. Lawyers for more than a dozen detainees have filed challenges citing the destruction of evidence, putting terrorism cases on shaky ground and jeopardizing future prosecutions as well,... More »

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Congress • CIA • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation • waterboarding • interrogation tapes • terror suspects

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