What the Torture Report Is Missing
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The Senate's investigation may only be the tip of the iceberg.
On the news talk shows, everyone is talking about torture -- mostly defending the Bush administration's hysterical actions after the 9/11 attacks.
On the news talk shows, everyone is talking about torture -- mostly defending the Bush administration's hysterical actions after the 9/11 attacks. Granted, 9/11 was a searing experience for the general public, which wanted action in retaliation.
One of the chief architects of the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation program has admitted in a media interview for the first time that he waterboarded terrorism suspects, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind
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Torture is a crime under both American and international law. The Bush administration repeatedly broke the law from 2002 to 2006 by unleashing a wave of torture, kidnapping, and murder, all under the banner of its faux "war on terror."
One falsehood gets repeated as fact by reporters, namely, the torture program stopped years ago. It has not. The Appendix M of the 2006 Army Field Manual on interrogation methods allows military and CIA to continue
Congress fails to hold executive branch accountable for its massive violations of human rights as documented in the released summary of the CIA Torture Report, but passes sanctions on Venezuela for "human rights violations."
We all know that nothing is going to happen to the CIA officials who violated the criminal law by torturing people.
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Even if torture were condonable, it doesn't work, says a research psychologist. What does?
After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner's feet and determined they were badly broken, another physician recommended that he could be made to stand for 52 hours.
"The CIA," according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, had "historical experience using coercive forms of interrogation."
The Central Intelligence Agency used contentious interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation, on dozens of the 119 men it detained in secret prisons between 2002 and 2008.
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Proponents of the CIA's torture program try to justify its horrific means, Hasan Minhaj defends America's awesomeness, and Suki Kim discusses "Without You, There Is No Us." (21:27)
Maybe it was lost in the translation.
Even before the U.S. Senate intelligence committee released the explosive CIA torture report on Tuesday, Bush administration officials were already dismissing it. "What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the a
Defenders of the Warfare State insist such methods are a cruel but necessary tactic in a struggle against implacable foreign enemies. After all, "we're at war," supposedly, and foreign enemy combatants aren't entitled to Due Process
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Dianne Feinstein was the canary in the coalmine. If even the senior Senator from California, as stalwart an ally of the CIA and the National Security State as one is likely to find, was upset enough to make such a fuss about the Senate torture report
A truncated version of the Senate investigation into the CIA's Terror War torture regime has finally been released.
The dark shame of how we abused prisoners at secret prisons after 9/11.
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I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America...
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) spoke about the newly released CIA Torture Report on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, decrying the use of harsh interrogation methods against detainees.
The CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" weren't all old intelligence-community techniques dusted off for the post-9/11 world.
The CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" weren't all old intelligence-community techniques dusted off for the post-9/11 world.