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Cheney: Soft Obama Makes Terror Attack More Likely

Says fighting extremists 'a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business'

Feb 4, 09 9:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Dick Cheney thinks there’s a “high probability” terrorists will attack the US with a biological or nuclear weapon, and that Barack Obama’s policies will likely only increase those odds. Fighting terrorism is “a tough mean, dirty, nasty business,” the former vice president told Politico. “... More »

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War on Terror • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • torture • terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • vice president • harsh interrogation • al-Qaeda

(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

 Prez to Shut Gitmo, 
 Secret CIA Prisons 

Orders directing sweeping detention, interrogation overhaul expected today

Jan 22, 09 2:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The president will sign orders today ordering the Guantanamo Bay detention center shut down within a year—and directing the CIA to dismantle its network of secret prisons overseas, government officials tell the New York Times. The CIA will still be allowed to detain terror suspects in foreign countries, but... More »

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CIA • secret prisons • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • President Obama

OPINION

Handicapping Last-Minute Bush Pardons

Scooter Libby? Alberto Gonzales? The entire CIA? Speculation swirls

Jan 19, 09 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush has shown no inclination to go on a Clinton-esque pardon binge, but that won't stop Josh Gerstein of Politico from speculating. Here are the potential pardon/commutation prospects, and the odds:
  • All CIA and military interrogators: Bush could make a big splash with a blanket pardon to anyone
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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • pardon • harsh interrogation • George W. Bush

 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

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

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

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

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

Ex-Detainee Describes
Gitmo Tortures

He was beaten,
hung from ceiling,
shocked with electricity

May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was... More »

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War on Terror • torture • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Kandahar • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation

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

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

Senate Bans Waterboarding, Faces Veto

Measure hamstrings US intelligence operations, Bush says 

Feb 13, 08 7:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate today passed a measure that would outlaw harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding—though the ban is part of a larger intelligence bill President Bush has promised to veto, the New York Times reports. Passed by the House in December, the bill cleared the Senate 51-45, largely along... More »

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John McCain • waterboarding • Bush veto • harsh interrogation • George W. Bush

New Claims of Taped CIA Torture

Lawyers to present evidence to Senate panel

Feb 7, 08 4:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Evidence that another CIA detainee was videotaped allegedly being tortured by interrogators is expected to be presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee tomorrow, reports Time magazine. A former suburban Baltimore high school student underwent unspecified "systematic torture" that may have involved waterboarding in a secret CIA prison in 2003,... More »

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torture • Majid Khan • secret prisons • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • black sites • videotape • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • hunger strike

House Subpoenas
Top Ex-Spy

Lawmakers seek explanation for why he had tapes destroyed

Dec 21, 07 4:20 AM CST
(Newser) - The former head of the CIA's clandestine service has been subpoenaed to testify about the destruction of  videotapes of the harsh interrogations of two al-Qaeda suspects. The subpoena for Jose Rodriguez was issued after the House Intelligence Committee staff studied documents on the interrogations that the CIA had surrendered to... More »

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CIA • Michael Hayden • Abu Zubaydah • House Intelligence Committee • harsh interrogation • Jose A. Rodriguez • Silvestre P. Reyes • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush • Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri

CIA to Surrender Tape Records

House will get secret documents on destroyed water boarding videos

Dec 20, 07 4:32 AM CST
(Newser) - The CIA will provide documents on the destruction of interrogation videotapes to the House Intelligence Committee and allow the agency's top attorney to testify, the New York Times reports. It's unclear whether the man who ordered the videos destroyed, clandestine service chief Jose Rodriguez, will also testify. The tapes showed... More »

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CIA • Department of Justice • Senate Judiciary Committee • Jose Rodriguez • waterboarding • Peter Hoekstra • House Intelligence Committee • harsh interrogation • Silvestre Reyes • John A. Rizzo

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