"public health care would lead to people being forced to their deathbeds…"
Vets’ group assails Fox, GOP over ’suicide’ manual claim Raw Story by Daniel Tencer [...]
Former Top Interrogators Back Wide-Ranging Criminal Probe Into Torture By Jason Leopold The Public Record Aug 23rd, 2009
… Jack Cloonan, a former FBI security and counterterrorism expert who was assigned to the agency’s elite Bin Laden Unit, Col. Steve Kleinman, a career military intelligence officer recognized as one [...]
Cheney’s Sophistry on Torture Investigations By: emptywheel August 30, 2009
It will not surprise you to learn that PapaDick parsed wildly about what Obama has said about torture in Cheney’s defense of torture today. Five times today, Cheney claimed that Obama is [...]
How a Detainee Became An AssetSept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After WaterboardingBy Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie TateWashington PostAugust 29, 2009
After enduring the CIA’s harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency’s secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they [...]
Well, I finally read the recently released version of the CIA OIG Report front to back [COUNTERTERRORISM DETENTION AND INTERROGATION ACTIVITIES (SEPTEMBER 2001- OCTOBER 2003)]. I was impressed with its thoroughness, and with the conduct of most of the CIA Officers who were involved in the Program. While I hated what they did, considering that [...]
Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques
This document is part of the document release last Monday. It’s a description of the process used for prisoners taken to CIA Black Sites overseas [rendition] prepared by the CIA for Dan Levin in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel [12/30/2004]. I won’t [...]
Seven Points on the CIA Report Harpers By Scott Horton August 25, 2009
1. The [...]
Okay, all of Scott Horton’s points stand out. This one [6.] particularly answered my confusion about something…
Seven Points on the CIA Report Harpers By [...]
Seven Points on the CIA Report Harpers By Scott Horton August 25, 2009
1. The worst is yet to come…
2. Opposition from within…
3. George Tenet and Michael Hayden misled the public…
4. All trails lead to the Vice President’s office. At several points, redactions begin just [...]