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black sites stories: 9 news summaries
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

Fleischer: 
Subpoena Me
—I Dare You

Ex-Bush spokesman
would 'be proud to testify' about torture

May 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect... More »

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Bush administration • torture • investigation • Guantanamo Bay • subpoena • black sites • Ari Fleischer • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Gideon Yago

 CIA Tortured 
 Prisoners: 
 Red Cross 

2007 report is first to use 'torture' in legal context

Mar 16, 09 5:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Red Cross concluded in 2007 that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda detainees "constituted torture," the Washington Post reports. Fourteen prisoners transferred from multiple CIA "black site" prisons overseas to Guantanamo all described similar patterns of beatings, sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme heat and cold, and... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • black sites

Obama Could Expose Secrets of the Bush Years

On torture, wiretapping, and more, Bush legacy rests with successor

Feb 10, 09 9:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Good government groups spent years suing and lobbying to expose the Bush administration’s secrets. Will President Obama spill the beans on his predecessor? Politico outlines major secrets Obama can choose to air or keep:
  • US attorney firings: Claiming executive privilege, Karl Rove refused to testify. But Rove has
... More »

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Bush administration • rendition • torture • US attorneys scandal • executive privilege • black sites • warrantless wiretapping

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

Yemeni Inmate Claims Months of Abuse
in CIA Cells

He tells Salon he was held at 'black sites'

Dec 15, 07 7:37 AM CST
(Newser) - A Yemeni man claims he was held for 19 months in secret CIA prisons, shackled in tiny cells with no idea why he was there or if he would ever be free again, bombarded by rap music or white noise around the clock. Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah says he was... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • black sites • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - British officials will investigate persistent claims that the CIA secretly interrogated terrorism suspects at a UK prison in the Indian Ocean, the Guardian reports. Authorities have repeatedly questioned American officials, who deny the reports. But an organization representing detainees insists the claims are true, adding that the British may... More »

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United Nations • CIA • torture • terrorism • United Kingdom • Diego Garcia • Indian Ocean • interrogation • black sites • Barry McCaffrey • al-Qaeda

Justice Memos Endorse Torture

Officials gave green light for array of painful interrogation techniques

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... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • terrorist • black sites • interogation • head slapping • waterboarding • freezing temperatures • US Supreme Court

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post interviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned,... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • terrorist • black sites • internment • Marwan Jabour • Geneva Convention

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