Psychologists Were Paid $81M to Devise CIA Tortures
A pair of retired Air Force psychologists who had never interrogated anybody before were paid a fortune to devise the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program, according to yesterday's Senate...
View ArticleTorture Report: The 13 Key Techniques
The Senate's newly released report on "enhanced interrogation" points to 13 different techniques used against detainees. They appear in a Justice Department memo to the CIA from May 2005, and the AP...
View ArticleTorture Report's Footnotes Alone Are Frightening
If you don't have time to read the 528-page summary of the Senate's findings on interrogation techniques , you can get a sense of its revelations just by reading the footnotes, Vocativ reports. The...
View ArticlePolish Leaders: We OK'd Secret Prisons, Not Torture
After years of denials, two former Polish leaders acknowledged yesterday that they had allowed a secret CIA prison to operate on their territory, but they insisted they never authorized the harsh...
View ArticleCIA's Torture Drew on Famed Dog Experiment
As earlier reported , a pair of retired Air Force psychologists who had never interrogated anybody before were paid $81 million to devise the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program and, much to Martin...
View ArticleCIA's Brennan: We Got a Lot Right, Made 'Abhorrent' Mistakes
CIA Director John Brennan offered up a spirited defense of his agency's torture program today, saying that "our nation and, in particular, this agency did a lot of things right during this difficult...
View ArticleCheney: Torture Was 9/11, Not What We Did
Dick Cheney today doubled down on his defense of the CIA's so-called harsh interrogation techniques, telling Meet the Press that "torture to me is an American citizen on his cell phone making a last...
View ArticleGitmo Inmate Describes Years of Abuse at CIA Sites
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal US government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks described it openly for the first time Thursday, saying he was left terrified and...
View ArticleOfficers on Gitmo Jury Slam Torture, Recommend Clemency
After a two-day sentencing hearing at Guantanamo Bay, a military jury sentenced former al-Qaeda operative Majid Khan to 26 years Friday—but seven of the eight jurors took the unusual step of writing a...
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