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CIA interrogations exposed
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
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Abu Zubaydah, an accused top al-Qaeda operative, "nearly died four times" when CIA interrogators tortured him into providing statements, according to government transcripts. Zubaydah was the first "high-value" detainee to be subjected to enhanced interrogation...
Tags: CIA Mistaken, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Guantanamo Bay Detainee, Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, U.S, harsh interrogations, cia interrogations, documents shows, al-Qaeda
US judge declines to give interrogation testimony
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Circuit Court of Appeals, headed the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from October 2001 through March 2003...The memo interpreted the federal anti-torture statute as only prohibiting pain equivalent to "the pain accompanying serious physical...
Tags: FBI, Bush, fbi agent, harsh interrogations, interrogations techniques, Senate Judiciary Committee, bush administration, senator judiciary, enhanced interrogations, Ali Soufan
Probe of interrogation memo lawyers nears end
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The Justice Department is nearing the end of its probe into Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret memos approving harsh interrogation techniques.The Associated Press obtained a copy of a letter from the Justice Department informing two members...
Tags: Bush Justice Department, torture memos, bush administration, bar associated, harsh interrogations, approved harsh, administration lawyers, draft report, interrogations techniques, bush lawyers
McCain differs with Cheney on interrogation memos
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Releasing classified memos showing whether harsh Bush-era interrogation methods yielded useful information from terrorism suspects is not necessary, Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday in a public disagreement with former Vice President Dick...
Tags: bush administration, Bush, harsh interrogations, John McCain, Barack Obama, administration officials, interrogations techniques, suspected terrorist, Patrick Leahy, Dick Cheney
Value of harsh interrogations said unclear
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The effectiveness of harsh interrogation techniques used against alleged Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed is unclear, a U.S. official says. Although the al-Qaida operative gave up valuable terrorism information as he underwent simulated...
Tags: interrogations technique, U.S, harsh interrogations, Mohammed, CIA
Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation. Less...
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S, bush administration, CIA, Dennis Blair, presidency barack, terror suspected, harsh interrogations
Senate panel probes CIA interrogations
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The Senate Intelligence Committee has launched a review of the Bush administration's controversial interrogation and detention program. The purpose of the review is to fully understand the program and to help "shape detention and interrogation policies...
Tags: CIA Director Leon Panetta, harsh interrogations, Senate Panel, terror suspects, Kit Bond, Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, bush administration, Bush, U.S. News & World
Sources: Obama ready to end harsh interrogations
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans.The...
Tags: obama, president, barack, elect, Barack Obama, harsh interrogations, CIA, U.S
American alleges torture in UAE detention
Abu Dhabi :: United Arab Emirates | 12 months ago
Credibility A Muslim American contends that he was tortured and beaten into confessing to a terrorism-related charge while the security services of the United Arab Emirates held him for nearly three months, allegedly at the U.S. government's request, his brother...
Tags: torture, president, obama, barack, Muslim American, harsh interrogations, Barack Obama, elect barack
Military interrogator details new Iraq abuses
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions. One of those interrogations was conducted by an Air Force civilian...
Tags: interrogations, iraq, torture, New Iraq, U.S, harsh interrogations, interrogations techniques, special force, white house
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