CIA chief admits waterboarding
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The CIA admits that it used the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding on al-Qaeda suspects.
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Ex-US homeland security chief Tom Ridge says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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Attorney general refuses to declare waterboarding as torture, says CIA no longer uses technique.
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An Australian suspect held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay has alleged he was tortured by water and electrodes during interrogation in Egypt, national radio reported.
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The accused mastermind of a British terror plot pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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The recently retired deputy director of CIA operations Monday defended the legality of the CIA's interrogation and detention policies in Iraq and elsewhere, saying they were carefully vetted and approved by the National Security Council and disclosed to the appropriate congressional oversight committees.
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The CIA's top lawyer said Tuesday he did not object to a 2002 memo authorizing interrogation techniques that stop just short of causing a sensation of impending organ failure or even death.
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President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
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He pleaded guilty more than five years ago to plotting bomb attacks on American embassies, but the case against al-Qaida member Mohammed Mansour Jabarah has been shrouded in secrecy until now.
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The first American military intelligence specialist to stand trial in connection with the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison pleaded guilty here on Saturday to abusing prisoners.
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Attorneys for a former detainee at a secret CIA prison said in a court filing this week that intelligence officials had falsely claimed in public statements that his interrogations were not videotaped, that all videotaped interrogations stopped in 2002 and that only a small number of CIA detainees...
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogating terrorism suspects are legal and do not include a widely condemned method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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The CIA has banned the controversial interrogation technique known as "water boarding," which simulates drowning to persuade suspects to talk, ABC News reported on Friday.
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Former top Bush administration aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should spend 30 to 37 months in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald contended in court documents filed yesterday.
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The top U.S. law enforcement official faces a clash on Wednesday with Senate Democrats after he rejected demands to rule on the legality of an interrogation technique known as waterboarding
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The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most explicit confirmation of the technique's use.
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The CIA has paid Pakistan millions of   dollars for catching al Qaeda fighters during the five years   since the September 11 attacks on the United States, Pakistani   President Pervez Musharraf wrote in a memoir published on   Monday.