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Justice Department Narrows Inquiry Into CIA Tactics

Lead investigator will probe only a handful of cases

Sep 19, 09 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eric Holder continues to take heavy flak from critics who think he should leave the CIA alone, and the Washington Post has news that should give them at least a bit of satisfaction: The Justice Department's preliminary investigation will be smaller than anticipated. The lead investigator will look at only... More »

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CIA • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • John Durham • Eric Holder

CIA Chiefs Ask Obama to Scrap Interrogation Probe

Disclosure of CIA methods will help the enemy, decrease national security, former directors warn

Sep 18, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seven former CIA directors—appointees of both political parties—are calling on the Obama administration to call off the Justice Department’s investigation of Bush-era interrogation practices, the Hill reports. The probe, ordered by AG Eric Holder, will reveal too much about the CIA’s methods in an environment where... More »

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CIA • torture • Attorney General • George Tenet • Michael Hayden • interrogation • James Schlesinger • interrogation techniques • Porter J. Goss • interrogations • Porter Goss • Eric Holder • James Woolsey • Obama administration • William Webster • John Deutch

(Newser) - Barack Obama has ordered the creation of an elite squad that will take over terror interrogations from the CIA, senior officials tell the Washington Post. Dubbed the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, the unit will be housed with the FBI, but overseen by the White House through... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • FBI • interrogation • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • National Security Council


 Holder Warns 
 of Homegrown 
 Terror Risk 

AG: 'American people would be surprised'

Jul 30, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The chilling big picture suggests that “the radicalization of Americans” who leave the country and return wanting to do “harm to the American people” is a growing threat, Eric Holder tells ABC News. It’s “something that didn’t loom as large a few months ago as... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Department of Justice • terrorism • Attorney General • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • domestic terrorism • detainees • Eric Holder • Obama administration

 Gitmo Prisoners: 
 We Lied to CIA 
 to Stop Torture 

Khalid Mohammed 'made up stories' on bin Laden's whereabouts after torture

Jun 16, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guantanamo prisoners fabricated information to give CIA interrogators after being physically and mentally abused, they told a 2007 military tribunal in transcripts released yesterday under the Freedom of Information act. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and one of the prisoners who was repeatedly waterboarded, said he... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • ACLU • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Steele Dodges 
 Torture Question 

ACLU slams Obama; Liz Cheney: 'fantasies' spread about dad

May 17, 09 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Steele has “a personal opinion” on whether the CIA’s interrogation techniques amounted to torture, but he refused to share it with David Gregory on Meet the Press today. “That’s not appropriate,” the RNC chairman said. But Steele did defend Dick Cheney and said Nancy... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Jim Webb • Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • Mitch McConnell • John Boehner • interrogation techniques • Liz Cheney

analysis

 Pelosi Raises 
 Stakes in 
 Torture Debate 

Speaker puts herself at center of storm over Bush policies

May 15, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whether by accident or design, Nancy Pelosi has turned the debate on the Bush administration's anti-terror program into a high-stakes game of brinksmanship, Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post. Pelosi's declaration yesterday that the CIA lied to Congress amounts to "a declaration of war," Balz writes, setting... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • War on Terror • CIA • torture • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • torture memo • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA lied to Congress about waterboarding will likely have broad political consequences, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Post. In the short term, Pelosi has stolen President Obama’s thunder on credit-card reform and could force the early announcement of a Supreme Court nominee... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • torture • interrogation techniques • talking points • Obama administration • President Obama • truth commission • credit card reform

CIA Denies Cheney Request for Torture Docs

Bush-era order on docs under pending litigation stymies ex-VP

May 14, 09 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA today denied Dick Cheney’s request that documents possibly proving the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques be declassified, MSNBC reports. An executive order “excludes from review information that is the subject of pending litigation,” the CIA said. The two documents “contain information that falls into... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • executive order • interrogation techniques • George W. Bush • declassification • documents

OPINION

 Cheney Might 
 Be Right 
 on Torture 

Despite his record, Cheney might be telling the truth this time

May 12, 09 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's hard to believe a word Dick Cheney says but that doesn't mean his claims that "enhanced interrogation" saved lives should be dismissed out of hand, Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post. The former vice president has been loudly defending the program, and it would be a mistake... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • torture memo

GOP: Torture Probe Must Include Pelosi

Republicans say speaker knew; hope to quiet Dems on matter

May 11, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - As calls continue for an investigation of Bush administration officials over torture, Republicans think they may have an ace in the hole: Nancy Pelosi, they say, knew waterboarding had taken place but didn’t try to stop it. Some Republicans think threatening the House Speaker will make her and fellow... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • torture • investigation • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Obama administration

Shrink Waterboard 'Experts'
Racked Up $1K a Day

Operation's architects lacked training in conducting interrogations, say CIS records

May 1, 09 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two US psychologists with no training in conducting interrogations boasted of earning $1000 a day designing and helping to implement use of waterboarding techniques on CIA detainees, reports ABC News. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, are considered the architects of the interrogation operation that Barack Obama has... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • detainees • Bruce Jesson • Jim Mitchell

(Newser) - Republican calls for the selective release of memos on torture techniques is a naked political ploy, Greg Sargent writes on the Plum Line. “The emerging official position of the GOP on torture is that the only classified information about torture that should be released is that which can bolster... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • American media • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo

(Newser) - The outrage on Capitol Hill against Bush-era interrogation policies is nothing more than a disingenuous “circus,” former CIA chief Porter Goss writes in the Washington Post. Goss, also a former congressman, says he and other senior lawmakers were briefed more than once about CIA tactics. “I... More »

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Bush administration • national security • CIA • interrogation techniques • Porter Goss • torture memo • CIA director

Bybee Rues Signature on Torture Memos

Friends say he
regrets way the legal opinions were used

Apr 25, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jay Bybee has told friends and colleagues that he regrets his role as one of the authors of the so-called torture memos, the Washington Post reports. Most notably, Bybee, who's now a federal judge, signed off on the 2002 memo that authorized waterboarding. "I've heard him express regret at... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques • federal judges • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • torture memo • Jay Bybee • Office of Legal Counsel

(Newser) - Dick Cheney's daughter stuck up for her dad today, insisting in an MSNBC interview that the CIA's interrogation techniques did not constitute torture, reports ThinkProgress. Liz Cheney, a former State Department official in her own right, also echoed her father's sentiment that the interrogations yielded valuable information. Two detainees "... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • daughter • Liz Cheney

Torture Memos Bear Me Out: Abu Ghraib Boss

She long held that interrogation techniques were under orders

Apr 23, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A retired colonel who helped run Abu Ghraib prison long asserted that she and her troops were just following orders in the prisoner interrogations that sparked a global outcry. Now, Janis Karpinski tells CNN, the release of torture memos has finally proven her case. “When they were first released... More »

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CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • interrogation techniques • torture memo • Janis Karpinski

(Newser) - No love lost between Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney. Asked today on Capitol Hill about Cheney’s request to declassify information related to the interrogation memos, Clinton responded, “It won’t surprise you that I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source,” the Los Angeles Times reports.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Dick Cheney • CIA • secretary of State • interrogation techniques • Dana Rohrabacher • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • Bob Inglis

(Newser) - The ripples from the release of the torture memos continue to ruffle the CIA, David Ignatius writes for the Washington Post. “America will be better off, in the long run, for Obama's decision to expose the past practice of torture,” he acknowledges. “We all knew the... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • terrorism • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • operative

(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

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