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October 2007
- Dems Demand Torture Memos
  
  New York Times | Oct 5, 07 3:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The disclosure by the New York Times of secret Justice Department memos greenlighting the use of torture techniques on terror suspects has triggered an uproar on Capitol Hill. Democrats have demanded to see the memos, which authorized head-slapping, sleep deprivation, freezing, a near-drowning technique called water boarding and other painful treatment by CIA interrogators. More »
  
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  CIA • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques • Arlen Specter • Senate Intelligence Committee • John D. Rockefeller • Judiciary Committee
- Justice Memos Endorse Torture
  
  New York Times | Oct 4, 07 9:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales secretly endorsed the use of torture techniques during interrogation by the CIA, the New York Times reports. A classified 2005 legal memorandum authorized the harshest techniques ever used by the CIA, the Times says, including a combination of head-slapping, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, freezing, loud noises and other forms of physical pain. More »
  
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  Congress • US Supreme Court • Guantanamo Bay • CIA • Department of Justice • torture • terrorist • Alberto Gonzales • waterboarding • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • black sites • head slapping
September 2007
- CIA Suspects Granted Access to Lawyers
  
  Washington Post | Sep 28, 07 3:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - US officials have granted 14 "high-value" al-Qaeda suspects, transferred to Guantanamo Bay after years in secret CIA prisons, access to lawyers to represent them at future military trials. The suspects include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 911 attacks, and others once close to Osama bin Laden, reports the Washington Post . More »
  
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  al-Qaeda • Guantanamo Bay • CIA • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Majid Khan • International Committee of the Red Cross • Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- Prez Yanks Pick for Top CIA Lawyer
  
  Reuters | Sep 26, 07 5:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The White House has dropped its nomination of John Rizzo as the CIA's top counsel after Democrats and human rights groups slammed him for supporting "enhanced interrogation" techniques. The career CIA lawyer sent a letter to President Bush withdrawing his nomination yesterday, Reuters reports. Rizzo retreated because he had little chance of getting the job anyway, said one official. More »
  
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  CIA • torture • interrogation
- US Agencies Aided German Terror Probe
  
  Der Spiegel | Sep 11, 07 3:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The CIA and NSA played a marquee role in last week’s capture of three men suspected of planning major terror attacks in Germany. For several months, Angela Merkel’s chief of staff held a weekly meeting about the plotters, Der Spiegel reports, and the cooperation was so significant that the German chancellor even met with George Bush about the matter. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Pakistan • terrorism • Germany • CIA • Angela Merkel • NSA • probe
August 2007
- Tenet Just Didn't Get It
  
  New York Times | Aug 21, 07 2:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - George Tenet’s CIA failed to stifle the al-Qaeda threat in the months leading up to 9/11, an internal report found by the agency's Inspector General found. A summary released today found the former director’s attention to methodology eclipsed his focus on strategy, the Times reports, in a rebuke of his management style. More »
  
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  al-Qaeda • CIA • War on Terror • September 11 • George Tenet
- Shrinks Fault CIA Torture Tactics
  
  Salon | Aug 15, 07 9:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The American Psychological Association, long chummy with the CIA, is set to condemn tactics the spy agency has been using to interrogate terror detainees, writes Salon . Members have in the past worked with the CIA to design techniques: now the group wants to distance itself by formally opposing a long list of tactics they consider torture at the organization's yearly convention this weekend. More »
  
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  CIA • torture • psychology • detainee • abuse • interrogation • sleep deprivation • water boarding • torture list
- CIA, Wal-Mart, Fox News Purge Wiki Entries
  
  Wired | Aug 14, 07 1:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new data-mining tool has tracked the identities of the anonymous users who make edits to Wikipedia entries—and revealed that Wal-Mart, voting-machine magnate Diebold, and even Fox News have tried to bowdlerize or spin their appearances in the online encyclopedia. And they're not the only ones, Wired reports. More »
  
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  Internet • CIA • Wal-Mart • Wikipedia • data mining • Diebold • appearances
- CIA Superspy Unmasks After 3 Decades
  
  Associated Press | Aug 8, 07 5:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As he prepares for retirement, the CIA's chief spymaster has elected to reveal his true identity, the AP reports. Jose Rodriguez spent more than 30 years undercover, much of the time in Latin America; the Puerto Rico native has headed the agency's clandestine service since 2004. An agency spokesman says Rodriguez's cover was lifted a month ago. More »
  
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  CIA • Latin America • Michael Hayden • Puerto Rico • spy • human intelligence • Jose Rodriguez • spycraft
- Judge Scissors Out Parts of Plame Memoir
  
  Los Angeles Times | Aug 3, 07 3:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Valerie Plame won't be allowed to disclose the dates she worked for the CIA in her upcoming memoir because it's classified information, a federal judge ruled today. The outed agent and publisher Simon & Schuster sued to keep the CIA from quashing info in her book, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. More »
  
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  CIA • censorship • free speech • Valerie Plame • memoir • classified information • Simon and Schuster
July 2007
- Bush OKs New Interrogation Guidelines
  
  Washington Post | Jul 21, 07 9:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush set broad new limits for questioning of CIA terror detainees yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The new regulations for "enhanced" interrogations—used to press suspects by means not allowed in US military custody—are an attempt at partial compliance with the Geneva Conventions. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Guantanamo Bay • CIA • torture • human rights • Geneva Convention
- Bush Contorts Qaeda Threat, Critics Charge
  
  New York Times | Jul 13, 07 10:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With George Bush using the words "al Qaeda" more than 30 times in his speech on Iraq yesterday, critics charge that he's persistently distorting links between the global Al Qaeda organization and the Iraqi insurgency. The Al Qaeda faction fighting in Iraq is largely an independent Iraqi phenomenon, the New York Times reports, and its links with the broader organization are murky. More »
  
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  al-Qaeda • CIA • Ayman al Zawahiri • al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia • Abu Ayyub al Masri

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