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  • July 2008

    • Hitchens Agrees: Waterboarding Is Torture

      newser  |  Vanity Fair  |  Jul 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      Hitchens Agrees: Waterboarding Is Torture

      "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 interrogation technique himself. "I find I don't want to tell you how little time I lasted." More »

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

    • Gitmo 'Torture' Modeled on Chinese Grilling of US POWs

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 2, 08 3:37 AM CDT

      Gitmo 'Torture' Modeled on Chinese Grilling of US POWs

      Guantanamo Bay interrogators learned their techniques from Chinese Communists who used them on American POWs in the Korean War, the New York Times reports. A 1957 Air Force chart labeled Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance detailed methods like prolonged standing and exposure to cold, and was used as a training aid by military trainers. The chart was copied verbatim for use at Guantanamo. More »

  • June 2008

    • 'Good Cop' Enticed 9/11 Mastermind to Talk

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 22, 08 7:09 AM CDT

      'Good Cop' Enticed 9/11 Mastermind to Talk

      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 whether Mohammed would have opened up without first facing interrogation techniques like waterboarding. More »

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

    • CIA Gave Pentagon Torture Tips

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 18, 08 8:06 AM CDT

      CIA Gave Pentagon Torture Tips

      The CIA gave the Pentagon advice about the legality of harsh interrogation techniques to be used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Documents shown to a Senate committee yesterday reveal that the agency had a bigger role than first thought. Torture is "subject to perception,"a CIA lawyer told officials at a 2002 meeting. "If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong." More »

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      Pentagon  • CIA  • Guantanamo Bay  • interrogation techniques  • harsh interrogation  • Senate Armed Services Committee  • Lindsey Graham

    • Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 5:33 AM CDT

      Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

      Pentagon lawyers had more input than was initially thought into the harsh interrogation techniques used on Guantanamo Bay prisoners, sources close to a Senate investigation have told the New York Times . Documents from 2002 reveal that officials in the Department of Defense, then run by Donald Rumsfeld, researched techniques like waterboarding months before they were used on detainees. More »

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      Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • Donald Rumsfeld  • interrogation techniques  • Carl Levin  • harsh interrogation  • Senate Armed Services Committee

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • CIA Can Skirt Torture Laws, Justice Claims

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 27, 08 8:11 AM CDT

      CIA Can Skirt Torture Laws, Justice Claims

      International anti-torture laws don't necessarily apply to CIA agents fighting terrorism, the Justice Department has explained to Congress in letters recently made public, reports the New York Times . The letters reveal the White House position that interrogators have some legal "latitude" outside the Geneva Conventions protecting detainees from "outrages upon personal dignity." More »

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      interrogation techniques  • Justice Department  • Central Intelligence Agency

    • White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 19, 08 7:54 AM CDT

      White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

      The Bush administration "hoodwinked" one of the country's top military men in order to establish harsh interrogation techniques on Guantanamo Bay prisoners, according to revelations in a new book reported in the Guardian. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers was misled by White House aides into abandoning the military's long-standing ban on inhumane treatment of prisoners, according to London law professor Phillipe Sands in his book Torture Team. More »

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      US military  • Guantanamo Bay  • Donald Rumsfeld  • interrogation techniques  • Joint Chiefs of Staff  • harsh interrogation

    • Waterboarding at Work Heads to Utah Court

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 14, 08 11:45 AM CDT

      Waterboarding at Work Heads to Utah Court

      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,” Chad Hudgens says. “The sensation that’s going through my head is ‘I’m going to drown.’” More »

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      lawsuit  • torture  • waterboarding  • interrogation techniques  • team building

    • Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Apr 10, 08 3:16 PM CDT

      Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

      Senior White House officials explicitly approved interrogation technique details in several meetings beginning in 2002, sources tell ABC. It was previously known that the CIA drafted a “Golden Shield” memo approving highly specific tactics for use on al-Qaeda detainees, but that top officials—including Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld—personally condoned the policy, on multiple occasions, is a new revelation. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • CIA  • Dick Cheney  • Donald Rumsfeld  • interrogation techniques  • John Ashcroft  • Colin Powell

    • Justice Memo Backed Torture Interrogations

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 2, 08 3:42 AM CDT

      Justice Memo Backed Torture Interrogations

      Laws banning torture and assault should not apply to US military interrogators overseas, argues a 2003 Justice Department memo released yesterday. The Defense Department was told not to rely on the memo nine months after it was issued, but it established a legal foundation for controversial interrogations, the Washington Post reports. The document contends that presidential wartime powers override laws and treaties, and details justifications for using aggressive tactics against suspected terrorists. More »

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      Iraq war  • US military  • Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • interrogation techniques  • Abu Ghraib  • suspected terrorists  • classified information

  • March 2008

    • Bush Vetoes Ban on Waterboarding

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 8, 08 9:49 AM CST

      Bush Vetoes Ban on Waterboarding

      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 have the votes to override the veto. More »

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

  • February 2008

    • CIA Acknowledges Waterboarding 3 Suspects

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Feb 5, 08 3:45 PM CST

      CIA Acknowledges Waterboarding 3 Suspects

      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 has publicly confirmed specifics of the use of a technique many consider torture. More »

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

  • January 2008
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