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CIA Officer: We 'Broke the Law' With Kidnapping

She's one of 23 Americans convicted in Italy for 2003 rendition

Nov 4, 09 6:30 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the CIA agents convicted in Italy today of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in 2003 says the mission "broke the law" and that she feels "abandoned and betrayed" by the US government. The case involving ex-officer Sabrina DeSousa and 22 other Americans is the first challenge to... More »

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CIA • rendition • Italy • kidnapping • House Intelligence Committee • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • extraordinary rendition • Pete Hoekstra • Sabrina DeSousa

 Metallica Singer 
 'Proud' of Music's 
 Role in Torture 

Tunes represented something detainees didn't like: Hetfield

Oct 29, 09 1:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Metallica frontman James Hetfield is rather proud his band's music was played at top volume to break down the resistance of Guantanamo detainees under interrogation. "It’s strong, it’s music that’s powerful,” he told an interviewer from a German TV network. “It represents something that... More »

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Iraq • Guantanamo Bay • Metallica • heavy metal • harsh interrogation • detainees

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 Docs Accused of  
 'Human Experimentation' 

Report from ethics groups says docs in interrogation program guilty of war crimes

Sep 3, 09 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - CIA doctors who monitored the agency's "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects may be guilty of war crimes linked to human experimentation, according to a new report from a medical ethics group. The report from Physicians for Human Rights accuses the doctors and psychologists of being involved at every stage... More »

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CIA • torture • war crimes • doctor • interrogation • harsh interrogation • medical ethics • Physicians for Human Rights • enhanced interrogation techniques

OPINION

'Monstrous Liar' Cheney Manipulates the Media

Former VP's defense of torture full of half-truths, falsehoods: Froomkin

Aug 31, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Since leaving government, Dick Cheney has realized that TV and newspapers will report anything he says, writes Dan Froomkin for the Huffington Post, even though "he is a monstrous liar”—remember Saddam's WMDs? "After years of speaking in whispers, operating by proxy, and leaving as few fingerprints... More »

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

Cheney: Learn From CIA, Don't
Investigate Interrogators

Probes are 'outrageous political act,' says ex-VP

Aug 30, 09 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration should be asking CIA interrogators how they managed to ward off terrorist attacks for 8 years rather than investigating possible breaches of law while doing so, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News today. Investigating interrogators is an "outrageous political act" that will do long-term... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • Fox News • harsh interrogation • Eric Holder • enhanced interrogation techniques • special prosecutor

(AP) - In late 2007, a year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee twice, keeping him awake for 5 and then 6 straight days, with permission from government lawyers to go over the 4-day limit. Interrogators kept the... More »

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CIA • torture • Osama bin Laden • sleep deprivation • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • detainees • enhanced interrogation techniques • Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani • Central Intelligence Agency

(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

(Newser) - A report by the ethics office of the Justice Department recommends reopening a dozen cases of alleged prisoner abuse, a move that would expose CIA employees to prosecution if it's determined they tortured terrorism suspects, reports the New York Times. Legal experts predict Attorney General Eric Holder will launch a... More »

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CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • abuse • harsh interrogation • attorney general • detainees • Eric Holder • Obama administration

(Newser) - When military contractor Raymond Azar was arrested in Afghanistan, he was hooded, shackled, stripped, photographed naked, then flown to Alexandria, Va., in the first known rendition of the Obama administration. But Azar isn’t accused of terrorism. The Lebanese citizen is accused of bribery, a charge he pleaded guilty to... More »

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Afghanistan • rendition • FBI • harsh interrogation • defense contractors


 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

(Newser) - Human rights groups may be upset that President Obama is classifying photos of detainee abuse, but former Army staff sergeant William Quinn thinks it’s a good thing—for the detainees’ sake. When Quinn was assigned as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib, he discovered that the detainees took a very... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • harsh interrogation • detainees • torture photos

(Newser) - Attorney General Eric Holder is "leaning toward" naming an independent prosecutor to probe Bush-era interrogation policies, even if it means war with the Obama administration, writes Daniel Klaidman in Newsweek. Such a probe would likely trigger partisan hostilities and threaten key Obama policies like health care and energy reform—... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • Attorney General • harsh interrogation • Eric Holder • enhanced interrogation techniques

Former Gitmo Prisoner Fights to Save Torture Photo

Says Pentagon wants to kill 'abuse evidence'

Jul 6, 09 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Guantanamo prisoner released to Britain after seven years in detention is fighting to keep the Pentagon from destroying a photograph he says proves he was abused, reports the Guardian. Binyam Mohamed does not have copies of the image, taken after he was brutally beaten, but he knows it... More »

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torture • appeal • abuse • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation • Binyam Mohamed

 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

CIA Calls on Court to Keep Interrogation Files Secret

Panetta warns that releasing records would benefit al-Qaeda

Jun 9, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of the CIA urged a federal judge yesterday to keep records of harsh interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects under wraps, CNN reports. The ACLU is suing to make the files, which describe the content of destroyed CIA tapes, public. But Leon Panetta warned that doing so would have "... More »

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CIA • American Civil Liberties Union • CIA videotapes • harsh interrogation • interrogation tapes • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta

Dems Rip GOP for Sharing Interrogation Secrets

House Republicans
go on record after closed-door briefing

Jun 5, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are seething today after Republicans told the press about classified intelligence gleaned in a closed-door briefing about interrogation techniques. GOP members told the Hill they were informed that harsh techniques led to information that prevented terrorist attacks. That led Democrats to blast their rivals for disclosing secret information, triggering... More »

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Congress • torture • House Democrats • Peter Hoekstra • House Intelligence Committee • harsh interrogation • House Republicans • Jan Schakowsky

Cheney Championed Interrogations Before Congress

Veep intervened when legislators got twitchy

Jun 3, 09 4:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney personally led at least four briefings with senior House and Senate members about harsh interrogation techniques, reports the Washington Post. The former vice president's interventions took place at critical moments when Congress was threatening to investigate or even outlaw techniques, such as waterboarding, that are widely considered torture.... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • John McCain • Dick Cheney • torture • Porter Goss • harsh interrogation • Lindsay Graham • enhanced interrogation techniques

 Bush:  
 Interrogations Were Legal 

Former president says CIA program was legal, saved lives

May 29, 09 6:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - George W. Bush didn't mention Dick Cheney by name, but he backed his assertions that the CIA's harsh interrogations were legal and saved lives, CNN reports. After terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in 2003, for example, Bush said he checked with "the lawyers" to determine how to... More »

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CIA • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • harsh interrogation • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Fidel Castro thinks those creative forms of interrogation used by the US amount to torture, and he criticized Dick Cheney for defending them, the AP reports. In an online essay, Castro argued that torture should never be used to get information from terror suspects. In fact, he went one better... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • Fidel Castro • Cuba • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • enhanced interrogation techniques

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