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 Condi Was 
 First to OK 
 Waterboarding 

Condi gave go-ahead before Rumsfeld, Powell even knew about it: Senate

Apr 23, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice played a greater role than she has acknowledged in the CIA's harsh interrogation program, and approved the use of waterboarding, according to a newly released report from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report finds that Rice, as national security adviser, verbally approved the CIA's request to waterboard a... More »

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Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • Senate Intelligence Committee • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • torture memo

(Newser) - No love lost between Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney. Asked today on Capitol Hill about Cheney’s request to declassify information related to the interrogation memos, Clinton responded, “It won’t surprise you that I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source,” the Los Angeles Times reports.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Dick Cheney • CIA • secretary of State • interrogation techniques • Dana Rohrabacher • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • Bob Inglis

(Newser) - The ripples from the release of the torture memos continue to ruffle the CIA, David Ignatius writes for the Washington Post. “America will be better off, in the long run, for Obama's decision to expose the past practice of torture,” he acknowledges. “We all knew the... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • terrorism • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • operative

Obama Pandered to Lefties With Memo Release: Cheney

Ex-VP slams Obama terror policies

Apr 22, 09 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney said President Obama’s release of Bush administration torture memos was meant “essentially to appease a certain element of the Democratic Party or because of campaign commitments,” Politico reports. Speaking on Fox News, Cheney did a mocking impression of al-Qaeda’s reaction: “Gee whiz, isn't... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • torture • terrorism • politics • Democratic Party • al-Qaeda • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama

(Newser) - Dick Cheney hasn’t actually asked the CIA to release more memos to support his claim that torture works, a source tells Plum Line blogger Greg Sargent. “The agency has received no request from the former vice president to release this information,” the intelligence insider says. A Cheney... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • torture memo • Greg Sargent

If CIA Gets Pass on Torture, Why Not Lynndie?

Abu Ghraib convict's team cries foul over double standard

Apr 21, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Among those infuriated at President Obama's decision to "turn the page" rather than prosecute officials who sanctioned torture at CIA prisons, and agents who conducted it, are supporters of Lynndie England, the jailed “face of the Abu Ghraib scandal.” They agree that her abuse of prisoners was... More »

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CIA • torture • Abu Ghraib • punishment • Lynndie England • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • discharge

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

(AP) - Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records. Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, and John Deutch all called the White House last month warning that... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • waterboarding • torture memo • CIA director

Limbaugh Slaps Himself to Mock Torture Debate

Meanwhile, Texas lawmaker calls Rush 'just an entertainer'

Apr 17, 09 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh slapped himself silly, groaned, and sighed on-air today to make a comment about the newly released Bush torture memos, the Huffington Post reports. Trying to demonstrate that torture techniques approved by the Bush administration—and revealed by President Obama this week—are less painful than terrorist strikes, Limbaugh... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • torture memo

'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

 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

Obama Defends Bush 'Torture Memo' Author

Yoo case should be up to executive, Congress, Justice Dept argues

Mar 8, 09 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s Justice Department is defending a Bush official being sued over his interrogation memos, ABC News reports. Lawyers for Jose Padilla, who was sentenced to 17 years in jail for conspiring to support Islamist extremists, are arguing in court that John Yoo’s memos were behind Padilla’s... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Jose Padilla • lawsuit • John Yoo • George W. Bush • Obama administration • torture memo

 Bush Lawyer Authorized 
 Suspending 1st Amendment 

Yoo memo also let military attack buildings inside US

Mar 3, 09 4:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Immediately after 9/11 the Justice Department under President Bush approved military attacks on apartments and offices, high-tech surveillance of citizens, and a suspension of press freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. The actions detailed in the newly released memo, co-written by John Yoo and sent to Alberto Gonzales, were seen... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • John Yoo • 9/11 attacks • torture memo • memo

Torture Lawyer Flees Berkeley Amid Protests 

Law prof takes 1-year gig at OC's Chapman U.

Feb 11, 09 11:48 AM CST
(Newser) - It can be hard to be a professor: publish or perish, sit on committees…dodge protesters? Just ask John Yoo, author of the memos that laid out and justified the harsh interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration. Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, has taken leave from his left-leaning professional... More »

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California • torture • UC Berkeley • Berkeley • Chapman University • waterboarding • John Yoo • Berkeley Law School • torture memo

 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

Secret Justice Memo Bares CIA Torture Defense

Agents would be safe from prosecution if they acted in good faith

Jul 25, 08 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration advised the CIA in 2002 that its agents would not be prosecuted on anti-torture legislation as long as they professed an "honest belief" that their actions would not cause severe pain and anguish, CNN reports. The memo is one of three made public by the ACLU,... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • ACLU • Freedom of Information Act • torture memo

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

OPINION

This Is What a War Criminal Looks Like

Newly released docs show ex-deputy AG's 'depraved criminality'

Apr 2, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Yoo, who as deputy AG wrote a crucial memo justifying torture, is a war criminal, Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald bluntly argues: Newly released documents reveal "a government official who, in concert with other government officials, set out to enable a brutal and systematic torture regime, and did so.... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • war crimes • John Yoo • moral authority • Berkeley Law School • torture memo

 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

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