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CIA witheld info from White HouseThe senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Thursday called for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department during its inquiry into the 2001 shoot-down of an American missionary plane by the Peruvian air force ...
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Nature’s Wake Up Call“Let’s get one thing clear upfront—you are on my planet; I am the owner, landlord, and general manager. Think of yourselves as tenants facing eviction. The only entity to which you are accountable, and to which you will ultimately be held accountable, is me.” - Nature “The American way of life ...
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Torturing DemocracyWhen the publication of the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq made prisoner abuse an international controversy in April, 2004, both the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates were already pursuing the story. Award-winning producer Sherry Jones was in the final stages ...
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The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture TrailA new exposé in Vanity Fair by British attorney Philippe Sands reveals new details about how attorney John Yoo and other high-ranking administration lawyers helped design and implement the interrogation policies seen at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons. According to Vanity Fair, ...
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CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret MemosThe Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if ...
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CIA Officers Could Face Charges in UK Probe of Gitmo Torture Claims"In Britain, senior CIA officers could face prosecution in the case of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who says he was tortured in US custody. The British Attorney General is considering whether to bring charges against Americans involved in the rendition and alleged torture of British resident Binyam ...
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The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American IdealsWe spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush ...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals"One of the more infamous adages to come from the Vietnam War said that, in waging counterinsurgency in the Vietnamese brush, American policy was to "burn the village to save the village," from communism. This sentiment did not die with Vietnam, however, and has found a clear place in the Bush ...
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Mystery Flights"If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt." - Former CIA agent Robert Baer The CIA calls it "extraordinary rendition". It's ...
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