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 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 'Torture' Modeled on Chinese Grilling of US POWs

Communist methods became US training manual

Jul 2, 08 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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CIA • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation • Carl Levin • Guantanamo prisoners • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Senate Armed Services Committee

 '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

CIA Gave Pentagon Torture Tips

Methods were 'reverse-engineered' from manuals

Jun 18, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

Defense Department lawyers played bigger role in Gitmo than first thought

Jun 17, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

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

CIA Can Skirt Torture Laws, Justice Claims

Letters justify legal 'latitude' for tactics to prevent terrorism

Apr 27, 08 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 "... More »

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CIA • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques

White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

Myers 'hoodwinked' into permitting harsh techniques

Apr 19, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

Meetings show high-level approval of CIA's 'enhanced' detainee treatment

Apr 10, 08 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Justice Memo Backed 
 Torture Interrogations  

President's wartime powers override law, document argued

Apr 2, 08 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

UPDATED

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

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

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

US Makes Canadian Torture List

'Torture awareness' manual for diplomats includes US, Syria, Israel, Iran

Jan 18, 08 6:40 AM CST
(Newser) - The US, along with China, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel, is listed in an official Canadian foreign ministry document of countries where prisoners are at risk of torture, the BBC reports. The "torture awareness" training manual classifies as torture some US interrogation techniques, including forced nudity, isolation, and sleep... More »

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Afghanistan • China • Iran • Israel • torture • Syria • Canada • United States • Amnesty International • Guantanamo Bay • sleep deprivation • interrogation techniques • Canadian foreign ministry • isolation • torture list

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

OPINION

CIA Obstructed 9/11 Inquiry, Commission Heads Charge

Destroying tapes at odds with probe

Jan 2, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - By withholding and ultimately destroying videotapes of the interrogation of al-Qaeda detainees, the CIA willfully obstructed the 9/11 commission, its top two members charge in today’s New York Times. Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton say the CIA repeatedly stonewalled their investigation in 2003-04, answering questions vaguely, denying access to... More »

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CIA • George Tenet • detainee • 9/11 commission • Thomas Kean • interrogation techniques • CIA videotapes • Lee Hamilton • al-Qaeda

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

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