How Torture Trapped Colin Powell ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium NewsFour days before trying to sell the invasion of Iraq to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell was ready to scrap dubious allegations about Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda but was dissuaded by top CIA officials who cited a new "bombshell" that now appears to have been ...
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't pretty By Robert Draper ...
Cheney said Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy WASHINGTON — Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the invasion of Iraq, asserted in 2004 that detainees interrogated at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp had revealed that Iraq had trained al Qaida operatives in chemical and biological warfare, an assertion that wasn't true. Cheney's 2004 ...
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney ...by Lawrence Wilkerson
Washington NoteLast night I was on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC at the top of the hour. But before I came on, through the earpiece I listened to the five minutes that Rachel sketched as a lead-in. Most of it was videotape from the last few days of former Vice ...
Cheney in Manhattan: 'A giant conspiracy' on Iran
By Ben Smith / Politico Former Vice President Dick Cheney swung quietly through New York City Tuesday night to watch his daughter, Elizabeth, a former State Department official, argue the conservative side in a debate over American policy toward Iran, and to express his own skepticism of President Obama's promised ...
By Alexander Burns / Politico Blasts Obama - but approves choice In an interview Tuesday with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto, former Vice President Dick Cheney repeated some of his harshest ... ... criticism of the Obama administration. "I think that we are stripping ourselves of some of the capabilities that ...
CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan
By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg / Der Spiegel The torture practices used in interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners were not developed by government officials in Washington, but by private security experts. In return for a daily consulting fee, they personally supervised the program at the CIA's secret prisons from the ...
Someone in the White House tried to deep-six Philip Zelikow's anti-torture memo. Welcome to the latest Bush-era whodunit. By Nick Baumann and David Corn / Mother JonesWho in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture? On April 21, Philip Zelikow, who ...
Obama gives nuanced defense of his stance on torture
He says harsh interrogation methods may have yielded useful information but that they should still be ruled out. His stance suggests complications in ending Bush-era counter-terrorism tactics. By Peter Wallsten and Greg Miller/ Los Angeles Times Reporting from Washington — In a strikingly defensive explanation of his stance on Bush-era ...
'We Could Have Done This the Right Way'
How Ali Soufan, an FBI agent, got Abu Zubaydah to talk without torture. By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside, a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. He had been wounded ...
CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks
By Mark Seibel and Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos. That undercuts assertions ...
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a ...
DOJ Sits on Secret CIA Interrogation Memo
2007 Memo on Geneva Conventions Not Released With Similar DocumentsBy Spencer Ackerman / Washington Independent The release last week of Bush-era legal memoranda justifying the Central Intelligence Agency's use of extreme interrogation methods has opened a window on what former Vice President Dick Cheney famously called "the dark side" of ...
Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive
MADRID, April 17 (Reuters) - A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case on Friday. But Judge Baltasar Garzon, internationally known for trying to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, ...
No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding
By Jennifer Loven and Devlin Barrett WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said Thursday that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted. The government released four ...
Prosecutor: Drop case against Bush officials
By Al Goodman MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Prosecutors will recommend that a Spanish court drop its investigation of six former officials in the administration of U.S. George W. Bush for alleged torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Spain's attorney general said Thursday. Investigating judge Baltasar Garzon has the final say ...
Decision likely in US torture case in Spain
By Paul Haven MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spanish prosecutors will likely decide this week whether to recommend a full investigation into allegations that six Bush Administration officials sanctioned torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, an official in the prosecutor's office said Tuesday. The decision would put the case back ...
By Jane Mayer / New Yorker About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested ...
Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials
By Marlise Simons / New York Times LONDON — A high-level Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, on whether they violated international law by providing a legalistic framework to justify the ...
Tales From Torture's Dark World ...by Mark Danner
New York Times ON a bright sunny day two years ago, President George W. Bush strode into the East Room of the White House and informed the world that the United States had created a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured terrorists. "In addition to the terrorists ...
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
By Eric Black / MinnPost At a "Great Conversations" event (MP3) at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert ...
Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers
By Charlie Savage and Scott Shane / New York Times WASHINGTON — When John C. Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer, was selected by President George W. Bush in May 2004 to join a government board charged with releasing historical Nazi and Japanese war crimes records, trouble quickly followed. The ...
To Investigate or Not: Four Ways to Look Back at Bush
By Scott Shane / New York Times WASHINGTON — Two days after his re-election in 1864, with Union victory in the Civil War assured, Abraham Lincoln stood at a White House window to address a boisterous crowd of supporters. He spoke of the lessons of the nation's calamitous recent history. ...
Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects? By Jane Meyer / New Yorker The last "enemy combatant" being detained in America is incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina—a tan, low-slung building situated amid acres of grassy swampland. The prisoner, known ...
Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon
By Thomas M. DeFrank / New York Daily News WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge. Sources close to ...
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