CIA chief defends rendition and detention policies
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The Central Intelligence Agency director defended U.S. policies on interrogation and rendition of terrorist suspects to other countries on Friday, saying the program was blown out of proportion by critics.
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The Republican congressman chosen by President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the job.
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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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A former Pentagon official on Sunday defended his prewar assessment of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida, calling it a much-needed critique of the CIA's intelligence on the subject.
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The 9/11 Commission's former head says he asked the CIA for information on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.
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As he prepared to commemorate the   fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush   said on Saturday a CIA detention program to interrogate   terrorism suspects had been "invaluable" in efforts to prevent   another attack on the United States.
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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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The Bush administration appears in court Friday to answer allegations that it defied a federal judge's demand to preserve evidence that may have included CIA interrogation videos of terrorist suspects in U.S. custody.
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Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department's much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda captives that has never been mentioned in public, according to military officials and several current and former intelligence officers.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- An Egyptian cleric, speaking publicly about his case for the first time, said yesterday that Egyptian officials tortured him in prison after he was kidnapped in Italy -- allegedly by CIA agents -- and was sent here for interrogation.
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John A. Rizzo, who has spent much of the past five years honing the CIA's interrogation policies, knows how to avoid answering questions under pressure -- at least in public. In nearly two hours of Senate testimony yesterday, his longest response by far was six sentences long.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of terrorism suspects, has issued new rules to ensure that detention and interrogation by the CIA comply with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture.
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The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, inquiry concludes.
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The Bush Administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest tactics
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Attorney general nominee Alberto R. Gonzales told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that any form of torture by U.S. personnel is illegal, according to new documents released Tuesday.
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A senior CIA officer says bad decisions, understaffing and infighting among intelligence agencies stifled efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and his network. More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency remains short-staffed, he says.
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The outgoing US homeland security chief says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.