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The Washington Post has an interesting article supporting the contention that harsh interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding resulted in valuable intelligence from 9/11 attack planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: How a Detainee Became An Asset. These scenes provide previously unpublicized details about the transformation of the man ...
Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM, 9/11, CIA, Torture
Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he’s going to appoint a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects, as a prelude to possible “full scale” criminal investigations. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA ...
Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Attorney General, CIA, Terrorism, Torture, Interrogation
The news today on that increasingly weird CIA scandal is that the agency withheld information about a secret program from Congress for years on direct orders from Dick Cheney. The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from ...
Charles Krauthammer’s previous column provoked several angry responses from other pundits, and today he responds: The Torture Debate, Continued. This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to ...
Obviously, Nancy Pelosi can’t continue to stick to her story that she was “never told” that the CIA was using waterboarding on a few detained terrorists, now that documents have been released showing that she was briefed on it. So now she says the CIA lied to her. House ...
Another excellent column from Charles Krauthammer: The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew. Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this ...
In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Nancy Pelosi has changed her story again; now she says she was briefed on waterboarding—but she was told the CIA wasn’t going to use it. Candy Crowley — a tough, well-informed and underrated interviewer — kicked it off by asking the Speaker ...
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss has a column in the Saturday Washington Post on the sudden “epidemic of amnesia” among House Democrats about harsh interrogation techniques: Security Before Politics. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, ...
By opening the door to prosecutions of CIA officials, President Obama is relinquishing US sovereignty in favor of international law, and the United Nations is salivating at the prospect of prosecuting American citizens: UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers. VIENNA – The U.S. is obligated by a ...
It looks like the Obama administration is getting ready to break their promise not to prosecute CIA officials: Holder: ‘follow law’ in US interrogation probe. WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the Justice Department will follow the law wherever it leads in probing ...
On the release of the Justice Department’s memos on interrogation techniques, the New York Times is predictably having a case of the torture vapors: Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A. The “brutal” tactics they describe sound very similar to what happens every spring in frat houses across America. ...
New York Times, Torture, Interrogation, CIA, Justice Department
Apparently, Barack Obama didn’t ask them to unclench their fists nicely enough: Obama told: help Pakistan or risk a repeat of 9/11 in America or Britain. A team headed by Bruce Riedel, a former CIA Middle East expert, asked to overhaul US policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, has concluded ...
Pakistan, Militant Islam, Terrorism, CIA, Barack Obama, Unclench
The international left labeled the practice as “outsourcing torture,” and the media spent oceans of ink denouncing it. And now the hopey changey Obama administration is expanding rendition programs. WASHINGTON - The CIA’s secret prisons are being closed. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go ...
It’s all about hope, and reaching out... WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies should seek ways of working with Islamic leaders and countries such as Iran on issues of mutual interest, President Barack Obama’s choice for spy chief said on Thursday. Retired Adm. Dennis Blair also urged a break ...
Omri Ceren’s headline says it all: Obama’s Top NSA And CIA Picks: Harsh On Israel, Sympathetic To Iran And Hezbollah. Well that was totally unpredictable wasn’t it? General James L. Jones is widely rumored to be Obama’s preferred candidate to be White House National Security Adviser... Jones prepared a ...
Barack Obama, cabinet, NSA, CIA, James L. Jones, John Brennan
The New York Times’ empty suit ombudsman Clark Hoyt grapples with the issue of whether the Times acted ethically, by deliberately “outing” the CIA operative who interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Of course, Hoyt decides the Times is blameless. The Public Editor - Weighing the Risk - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. Notice ...
Unbelievable. The worst example of wrong-headed “outreach” yet: Looking Under a Rock: FBI and CIA Hit New Low in Recruitment Drive. In a frightening and bizarre turn, the two chief agencies tapped with safeguarding America’s national security have started advertising in a publication that can only be described as ...
LGF, FBI, CIA, Recruitment, WRMEA, Antisemitism, Saudi Arabia, Radical Islam, Sami Al-Arian
When former CIA agent Philip Agee died earlier this week in Cuba, where he fled to escape justice for his betrayal of fellow agents, Reuters eulogized the creep with an article praising him as a “whistle-blower.” Apparentl y this didn’t go over well with quite a few readers, and Reuters ...
Philip Agee, the traitor who exposed fellow CIA agents to violence and murder by revealing their names, and severely damaged the US intelligence network, is dead today in Cuba—and Reuters calls him a “whistle-blower.” HAVANA (Reuters) - Philip Agee, a former CIA spy who exposed its undercover operations in ...
The latest CIA inspector general report shows that Bill Clinton lied in that infamous red-faced interview with Chris Wallace; he never ordered the CIA to kill Osama bin Laden.
In the latest episode of one of our longest-running trumped up political scandals, the lawsuit by Valerie Plame has been tossed out. This is going to drive the Nutroots insane. (It’s a short drive.) WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members ...
By now everyone knows “Scooter” Libby has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, for his role in the decade’s most ridiculous trumped-up political scandal; the National Review calls on President Bush to pardon him. He is a dedicated public servant caught in a crazy political fight ...
Khaled el-Masri, the poster boy for the international left’s campaign against the CIA practice of “rendition,” has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of arson. Notice that Spiegel Online states as a fact that el-Masri was “tortured,” but doesn’t mention until the fifth paragraph that the only evidence of “torture” ...
It’s no secret that I think George Tenet was one of the most incompetent blithering idiots ever to run the CIA. In 2004, when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I wrote this: Undeserved Medal for Tenet. Now Tenet, with his absolutely terrible record of failure and weakness, has ...
Drudge says Scooter Libby has been found guilty of obstructing investigations into the Plame non-scandal.