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interrogation techniques stories: 67 news summaries

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(Newser) - President Obama today said he’d be open to the idea of creating a panel to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation methods in the war on terror. Obama and his aides have been dismissing the idea for weeks, but today in a press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan,... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Patrick Leahy • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Obama administration

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

Psychologists, Doctors Helped With Interrogations

Role of medical professionals in CIA program angers peers

Apr 18, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Psychologists and physicians who assisted the CIA's harsh interrogation program are being accused of violating the most basic principles of their professions, the Washington Post reports. The newly released CIA memos confirm that on-site psychologists—generally contract workers with the agency—took an active role in the program, offering ideas... More »

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CIA • International Committee of the Red Cross • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • psychologist • medical ethics • torture memo

CIA Pushed Brutal Tactics
on Interrogators

Captors felt al-Qaeda suspect had already
told all he knew

Apr 18, 09 5:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Higher-ups in the CIA pressed for harsh interrogation methods to be used on a captured al-Qaeda member despite his interrogators' assurances that he had nothing more to tell, the New York Times reports. Abu Zubaydah had already yielded important information, including tips that led to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shiekh Mohammed,... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • torture • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • torture memo

OPINION

Bush AG, CIA Chief Slam Obama on Torture Memos


Apr 17, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama made a dangerous mistake in yesterday releasing Justice Department memos about interrogation techniques from 2005, say former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former CIA Director Michael Hayden. By releasing the details of these methods, Obama is eliminating a crucial intelligence tool—not just for his own administration but... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • Michael Hayden • Michael Mukasey • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • CIA director

'Weighty' Torture Memo Decision Took Weeks

President's belief in rule of law won out in choice to release Bush-era memos

Apr 17, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama spent weeks thinking "very long and hard" about his "weighty decision" to release memos on harsh CIA interrogation techniques green-lighted by the Bush administration, senior adviser David Axelrod tells Politico. In the end, Axelrod says, the president's belief in transparency and the rule of law won... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • David Axelrod • torture memo • President Obama

opinion

 We Need a Torture Commission 


Apr 16, 09 9:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama appears ready to put the whole issue of CIA torture behind him. He owes it to the nation to do otherwise, writes Mark Benjamin in Salon. In particular, he should appoint a torture commission—a bipartisan group to evaluate what, if anything, the US gained from these interrogation... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • President Obama

 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

(Newser) - President Obama today signed orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year, review the military terror trials, and ban the harshest interrogation techniques, the AP reports. “There we go,” the president said with satisfaction after signing the orders, which promise to fundamentally reshape the country's... More »

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Barack Obama • Ali al Marri • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Army Field Manual • Obama administration • President Obama

(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

OPINION

 Investigate Bush: Conyers 

Congress must review his abuses to prevent a repeat

Jan 16, 09 11:29 AM CST
(Newser) - As the country moves forward, we can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the past: it’s time to review the abuses of the Bush administration, writes Michigan congressman John Conyers, Jr. in the Washington Post. Congress must keep pushing for “stonewalled” Bush documents; it should create an... More »

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Congress • executive privilege • John Conyers • probe • interrogation techniques • domestic wiretapping • Iraq war • George W. Bush • criminal investigation

 Senate Report 
 Pins Torture 
 on Rumsfeld 

Bipartisan panel, including McCain, concludes detainee abuse not just because of 'a few bad apples'

Dec 11, 08 2:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top White House officials were responsible for detainee abuse at US military prisons, a bipartisan Senate report finds. After 2 years of hearing testimony and reviewing documents, the study—released by Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin—traces controversial interrogation practices like sleep... More »

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Bush administration • Taliban • torture • Donald Rumsfeld • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush • torture memo

Bands Blast Blaring 'Music Torture' at Gitmo

Campaign against use of rock to break war prisoners

Dec 10, 08 2:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Rock musicians are banding together to protest use of their music—played loudly and incessantly—to torture war prisoners. US interrogators have bragged about breaking detainees by endlessly playing the same pulsating music for months. "Plenty lost their minds"—not just to Eminem, but Sesame Street songs and... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • musician • interrogation techniques • rock music • detainees • Sesame Street

 India to Use 
 Truth Serum 
 on Terrorist 

Drug used during Cold War, now banned in most democracies

Dec 3, 08 6:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Indian police plan to inject a controversial truth serum into the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist to try to prove his identity, reports the London Times. The narcotics-powered analysis could yield proof that the so-called "baby-faced gunman" is indeed from Pakistan, which India suspects but Pakistan doubts. Western agencies stopped... More »

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terrorism • Pakistan • India • Mumbai • interrogation techniques • suspected terrorists • terrorist attack • police interrogation • truth serum

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 Likely 
 to Keep Bush 
 Intel Policies 

Positions likely to be filled with pragmatists

Nov 11, 08 11:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama isn’t likely to deliver the radical intelligence policy overhaul many civil liberty groups are craving, advisers tell the Wall Street Journal. Those advisers include former Republican supporters and centrist Clinton officials. “He’s going to take a very centrist approach,” said an ex-Bush and... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • FISA • warrantless wiretapping • interrogation techniques • domestic wiretapping • wiretapping bill • President Obama

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

Interrogation Debate Divides Psychologists

Should they be present for questioning? 'Soul' of profession at stake

Aug 16, 08 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The use of psychologists to aid government interrogations at places such as Guantanamo Bay has triggered an acrimonious ethical debate as the American Psychological Association considers banning the practice altogether, the New York Times reports. Some say psychologists are used to “break” detainees—in some cases illegally—while others... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • interrogation • American Psychological Association • interrogation techniques • psychologist

Bin Laden Driver's Soft Spot: McDonald's Fries

FBI agents discovered he liked them during interrogations

Jul 26, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden’s driver warmed up to interrogators after he was given McDonald’s french fries, Reuters reports. He "even appreciated that McDonald's fries are not good cold," an FBI agent testified yesterday at Salim Hamdan’s war crimes trial. In another instance, he perked up when... More »

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Pentagon • military tribunal • McDonald's • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • interrogation techniques • Salim Ahmed Hamdan • al-Qaeda • French fries • Guantanamo tribunals

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