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CIA Interrogations Caused Brain Damage: Scientist

Harsh techniques damaged subject's facility for recall

Sep 21, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(AP) - The CIA's harsh interrogations are likely to have damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a new scientific paper. The paper scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens... More »

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CIA • memory • brain • brain damage • neuroscience • sleep deprivation • waterboarding • enhanced interrogation techniques

OPINION

Bush Must Apologize
for Torture

Don't let subordinates take the fall, Sullivan urges former president

Sep 9, 09 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The only way to remove the stain of torture from America's name is for the man who authorized it to step up and take responsibility, Atlantic editor Andrew Sullivan writes in an open letter to George W. Bush. Dodging blame while his subordinates take the fall—and watching the country... More »

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torture • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • terror suspects • George W. Bush • Mohammed al-Qahtani • enhanced interrogation techniques

Gonzales Changes Tune on 'Legitimate' CIA Probe

Ex-AG compares torture to speeding (really)

Sep 3, 09 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales did not mean to endorse Eric Holder’s probe of alleged CIA torture during the Bush administration by calling it “legitimate,” the former AG tells the Washington Times, which broke the story. “I don't support the investigation by the department because this is a... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Attorney General • probe • Eric Holder • enhanced interrogation techniques • Central Intelligence Agency • CIA memos

 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

(Newser) - Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is on the same page as Eric Holder when it comes to investigating allegations of CIA torture. “As chief prosecutor of the United States, he should make the decision on his own, based on the facts,” he tells the Washington Times. Gonzales,... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Alberto Gonzales • terrorism • Eric Holder • enhanced interrogation techniques • Central Intelligence Agency • CIA memos

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

(Newser) - After being waterboarded 183 times and deprived of sleep for a week, self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Kalid Sheikh Mohammed transformed from an avowed enemy of the US into a sort of CIA guest lecturer, the Washington Post reports. Two anonymous sources, looking to build the case that harsh interrogation worked,... More »

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CIA • torture • secret prisons • September 11 • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • al-Qaeda • enhanced interrogation techniques • Central Intelligence Agency • KSM

(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

ANALYSIS

CIA Manipulated Every Detail
of Interrogation Sessions

Top-level approval of interrogation techniques could complicate Justice probe

Aug 26, 09 1:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the CIA discloses internal reports concerning “enhanced” interrogation techniques on detainees at secret prisons, the ugliest details—threats of execution and harm with a power drill—have grabbed headlines. But the documents also reveal an intriguing level of control that the CIA and Department of Justice maintained over... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • secret prisons • interrogation • black sites • enhanced interrogation techniques

(Newser) - Dick Cheney lambasted Barack Obama today for his decision to name a special prosecutor to look into Bush-era terror interrogations. The move raises “doubts about this administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security,” he said in a statement. “The people involved deserve our... More »

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Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • Obama administration • enhanced interrogation techniques

(Newser) - Dick Cheney has long insisted that two CIA documents from 2004 and 2005 would prove the value of torture. But after obtaining them yesterday, the Washington Independent says they do nothing of the kind. The documents actually suggest, albeit murkily, that non-abusive techniques were more effective. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • enhanced interrogation techniques

(Newser) - The White House was busily waging a do-or-die battle to pass health reform when it was suddenly handed exactly what it wanted to avoid: a polarizing battle about Bush-era tactics that President Obama has already condemned. Obama is attempting to remain above the fray as the administration insists that AG... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • federal investigation • Eric Holder • Obama administration • enhanced interrogation techniques • special prosecutor

(Newser) - AG Eric Holder today named a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture against CIA operatives who interrogated terror suspects during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reports. John Durham, who is currently probing the destruction of interrogation tapes, will look into fewer than 12 cases detailed in a... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • Guantanamo Bay • John Durham • Leon Panetta • Eric Holder • Obama administration • President Obama • enhanced interrogation techniques • special prosecutor

(Newser) - A report long suppressed by Bush administration officials set to be released next week says the CIA used mock executions as part of post-9/11 interrogations, Newsweek reports—though federal law prohibits threatening prisoners with “imminent death,” and the practice wasn’t authorized by the Justice Department, unlike other... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • execution • Michael Hayden • interrogation • waterboarding • Porter Goss • USS Cole • report • enhanced interrogation techniques • morale • mock executions

(Newser) - When CIA officials decided to build a series of secret prisons, they immediately contacted the chief of the agency's European supply base, a Frankfurt-based logistical whiz. “It was too sensitive to be handled by headquarters,” Kyle “Dusty” Foggo tells the New York Times. He called a... More »

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CIA • Eastern Europe • Morocco • secret prisons • interrogation • Romania • Kyle Foggo • enhanced interrogation techniques

OPINION

Panetta to Congress: Let Go of the Past

Fighting over defunct Bush-era programs only hurt CIA, chief says

Aug 2, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's time for the toxic air of recriminations and mistrust in Washington about the CIA’s post-9/11 intelligence programs to blow over, Leon Panetta writes today in the Washington Post. “I've become increasingly concerned that the focus on the past, especially in Congress, threatens to distract the CIA from... More »

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Congress • CIA • terrorism • intelligence • Leon Panetta • enhanced interrogation techniques

Inside the CIA Torturers' Heads

Post: Higher-ups pushed interrogators for harsher methods than they wanted

Jul 19, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI was already getting information out of a suspected terrorist in a series of relatively friendly interrogations in 2002 when the CIA stepped in, a former US official tells the Washington Post. Agency contract psychologists escalated the techniques to sleep deprivation, extreme cold, and waterboarding, which the FBI interrogators... More »

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CIA • torture • FBI • sleep deprivation • waterboarding • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • psychologist • enhanced interrogation techniques

(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

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

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