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Lawyers Declare Innocence of Waterboarding Victim

Gitmo detainee 'was never in al Qaeda'

Mar 18, 08 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah isn’t a member of al Qaeda or the Taliban, his lawyers contend, and he’s never tried to harm American citizens. Held in CIA secret prisons and waterboarded, Zubaydah wasn’t given anything “that would satisfy even the most basic notions of due process,... More »

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CIA • terrorism • secret prisons • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah

 Iraq Pullout Would 
 Spur Genocide: Mac 

He's off to sell world view on international tour

Mar 14, 08 2:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain charged yesterday that early withdrawal from Iraq proposed by both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would  trigger "genocide" across the region. He launched his latest attack on his Democratic rivals on the eve of his planned international tour to Britain, France, Israel, Jordan and possibly Iraq to... More »

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Iraq • Israel • John McCain • genocide • Jordan • torture • troop withdrawal • waterboarding • Iraq war • Straight Talk Express • al-Qaeda in Iraq

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Bush Vetoes Ban on Waterboarding

He says terrorist threat remains; Dems don't have votes to override

Mar 8, 08 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush today vetoed a bill that would have prevented the CIA from using harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, the New York Times reports. "We need to ensure our intelligence officials have all the tools they need to stop the terrorists,” the president said. Democrats do not... More »

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CIA • torture • Ted Kennedy • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • George W. Bush

DOJ Probes Itself Over Torture Memos

Ethics chief reveals inquiry into advice that OK'd waterboarding

Feb 22, 08 8:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The Department of Justice is probing its own legal approval of waterboarding for the CIA, the New York Times reports. DOJ ethics chief H. Marshall Jarrett confirmed today that his office is conducting the first public inquiry of the 5-year-old advice and may issue a non-classified report when it... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • waterboarding • John Yoo • Sheldon Whitehouse • Dick Durbin • Office of Professional Responsibility • H. Marshall Jarrett • Glenn A. Fine

OPINION

Is He Against Torture?

The LA Times accuses Mac of flip-flopping on a key issue

Feb 19, 08 6:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The LA Times editorial board today slammed John McCain for a vote the paper feels undermines the senator’s “admirable” opposition to torture in interrogations. McCain, whom the Times endorsed earlier this month, voted against legislation that forbids CIA interrogators from using waterboarding or other methods banned by the... More »

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John McCain • CIA • torture • waterboarding • Army Field Manual • George W. Bush

OPINION

Confessions From Torture Must Be Tossed

Ex-Guantanamo prosecutor condemns waterboarding pleas

Feb 17, 08 1:57 PM CST
(Newser) - So-called “confessions” obtained by waterboarding should be tossed out of court, Guantanamo's ex-chief military prosecutor writes in the New York Times. Morris Davis quit over the practice last year and regrets that the Pentagon is allowing waterboarding evidence to prosecute six 9/11 suspects. "Military justice has a proud... More »

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torture • September 11 • Michael Hayden • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Morris Davis

Bush Rips Congress on Waterboarding Ban

Families of London bomb victims know 'nature of killers,' he tells interviewer

Feb 15, 08 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush blasted the congressional move to ban waterboarding last night, suggesting that relatives of London bombing victims would understand the need for such interrogation techniques. Victims' families "understand the nature of killers," he told the BBC. He said lawmakers "are imposing a set of standards in... More »

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Iraq • CIA • torture • waterboarding • George W. Bush

Waterboarding Is Illegal: Justice Dept.

Legal expert to tell House committee it's no longer acceptable

Feb 14, 08 8:18 AM CST
(Newser) - A top Justice Department official will declare to a House subcommittee today that waterboarding is no longer legal—a day after Congress defied President Bush's veto threat to explicitly outlaw the controversial interrogation tactic. "The set of interrogation methods authorized for current use is narrower than before, and it... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Chuck Hagel • Senate • Michael Hayden • waterboarding • Steven Bradbury • George W. Bush

Senate Bans Waterboarding, Faces Veto

Measure hamstrings US intelligence operations, Bush says 

Feb 13, 08 7:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate today passed a measure that would outlaw harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding—though the ban is part of a larger intelligence bill President Bush has promised to veto, the New York Times reports. Passed by the House in December, the bill cleared the Senate 51-45, largely along... More »

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John McCain • waterboarding • Bush veto • harsh interrogation • George W. Bush

Waterboarding Violates UN Torture Law

Official urges nations
to prosecute, but
doesn't point finger

Feb 8, 08 11:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A top UN official said today that CIA waterboarding constitutes a war crime, but she stopped short of accusing Washington directly. "I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of torture," Louise Arbour said. Her comment comes days after CIA chief Michael... More »

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War on Terror • torture • war crimes • Michael Hayden • waterboarding • Louise Arbour • UN Commission on Human Rights

Cheney Touts Harsh Interrogations

As CIA boss concedes tactics may be illega

Feb 8, 08 5:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Dick Cheney yesterday defended the use of controversial interrogation techniques, crediting them with possibly “foiling an attack against the US," just as the director of the CIA was conceding to a congressional committee that waterboarding may be illegal. The VP defended the use of  “a tougher program... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • September 11 • Michael Hayden • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding

New Claims of Taped CIA Torture

Lawyers to present evidence to Senate panel

Feb 7, 08 4:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Evidence that another CIA detainee was videotaped allegedly being tortured by interrogators is expected to be presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee tomorrow, reports Time magazine. A former suburban Baltimore high school student underwent unspecified "systematic torture" that may have involved waterboarding in a secret CIA prison in 2003,... More »

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torture • Majid Khan • secret prisons • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • black sites • videotape • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • hunger strike

CIA Acknowledges Waterboarding 3 Suspects

Senate committee hears specifics, warning of possible Al-Qaeda spread

Feb 5, 08 3:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The CIA used waterboarding three times following the 9/11 attacks, the agency's current director testified today. Interrogators used the method on suspected attack planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two top al Qaeda members, Reuters reports. Michael Hayden's statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee marks the first time a US official... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • September 11 • Michael Hayden • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • al-Qaeda

Look Who's Trying Out Waterboarding

Young men sample torture technique to settle debate

Jan 31, 08 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - As the debate over waterboarding continues unabated, it has occurred to more than one cocky—or conscientious—young man that anyone can see for himself what it feels like, and whether it constitutes torture. The Wall Street Journal talks to several who've tried it—using friends with no special training.... More »

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CIA • torture • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding • interrogation techniques

Mukasey Won't Budge on Waterboarding

He again refuses
to answer senators' questions on legality

Jan 30, 08 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Testifying before a Senate committee today, Attorney General Michael Mukasey frustrated attempts to get him to answer on whether waterboarding constitutes torture. "I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to pass definitive judgment on the technique’s legality,” said Mukasey, hedging in a manner that,... More »

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torture • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding

Senate Grills Mukasey
Today on Waterboarding

Mukasey warns he'll stonewall on questions about legality

Jan 30, 08 3:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A high-noon face off is looming today between Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the Senate Judiciary Committee over waterboarding, the simulated drowning interrogation technique that many consider torture. Committee chair Patrick Leahy said Mukasey faces "serious questions" on the issue at today's hearing. But Mukasey has warned Leahy in... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • Senate Judiciary Committee • interrogation • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • Military Commissions Act • Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri

Waterboarding Returns to Spotlight

Ex-spy chief confirms use of tactic as Mukasey preps for Hill hearing

Jan 29, 08 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - American interrogators' tactics included waterboarding sometime before 2005, but the tactic "has not been used in years," the ex-director of national intelligence says. John Negroponte's acknowledgment, the most definitive confirmation yet of the Bush administration's use of waterboarding, comes as Michael Mukasey prepares to return to Capitol Hill... More »

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torture • John Negroponte • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding

Waterboarding Is Torture: US Intelligence Chief

Can't imagine 'how painful,' says McConnell

Jan 13, 08 7:03 AM CST
(Newser) - US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said it "would be torture" if he were subjected to the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding. "If I had water draining into my nose, God, I just can't imagine how painful!" McConnell told the New Yorker. "For me, it... More »

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CIA • torture • Mike McConnell • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • George W. Bush

CIA Tapes Were Made—and Destroyed—for PR

Interrogations filmed to counter mistreatment accusations; stopped when techniques grew harsh, reports NYT

Dec 30, 07 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Concern over its image prompted the CIA to first secretly create—and later destroy—tapes depicting the harsh interrogation of detainees, the New York Times reports. In spring 2002 the agency decided to document every moment of senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah's custody so that perceptions of mistreatment—by prosecutors,... More »

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CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • interrogations • Abu Zubaydah • CIA videotapes • al-Qaeda

Judge Won't Order Probe of Gitmo Tapes

Jurist reluctant to duplicate DoJ's efforts in CIA investigation

Dec 21, 07 3:28 PM CST
(Newser) - In the first public hearing on the issue, a federal judge today refused to immediately order an investigation into the destroyed CIA interrogation tapes. Lawyers for Yemeni nationals held at Guantanamo argued that the destruction violated a 2005 order by Judge Henry Kennedy, who ordered today's hearing. The White House... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • CIA videotapes • District Judge Henry Kennedy

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