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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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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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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A man accused of being the chief propagandist for Osama bin Laden admitted Thursday at a military trial that he was a member of the al Qaeda terrorist organization and began to address the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks before authorities cut him off.
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A former CIA contract worker charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died admitted he assaulted the prisoner during an interrogation, a fellow agency employee testifying in disguise said Tuesday.
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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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The outgoing US homeland security chief says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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President Bush's pick for attorney general called the interrogation technique known as "waterboarding" a repugnant practice Tuesday, but again refused to say whether it violates U.S. laws banning torture.
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The US military admitted for the first time yesterday that one of the prisoners whom the Bush administration has held without charges for more
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A key member of Congress disclosed yesterday that the CIA said in February 2003 that it planned to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations after the agency's inspector general finished probing the episodes, an account that adds detail to recent CIA statements about the circumstances surrounding...
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture.
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WASHINGTON  -- Michael Mukasey should be denied Senate confirmation as U.S. attorney general unless the retired judge denounces as torture the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, a top Democrat said on Sunday.
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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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The CIA believes that al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al Zarqawi was the speaker on the videotape showing the beheading of American hostage Eugene Armstrong, a CIA official says.
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The CIA asked the Justice Department to investigate whether former operative John Kiriakou illegally disclosed classified information when he talked about the waterboarding of a terrorism suspect, government officials say.
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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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Chilean Army chief General Juan Cheyre has admitted to torture in the army committed during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, local mediareported Friday.