Stories Tagged ‘Torture, CIA’
By Main Justice staff | February 26, 2010 11:15 am
The amendment would have called for long prison terms for U.S. interrogators who engaged in “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” UPDATED: 12:23 p.m.
Tags: anthrax, Bruce Ivins, CIA, FBI, House of Representatives, intelligence, interrogation, Jim McDermott, Louise Slaughter, Peter Hoekstra, Roscoe Bartlett, Rush Holt, Silvestre Reyes, Torture, CIA
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 19, 2010 5:28 pm
The conservative former prosecutor and legislator appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Tags: Bob Barr, CIA, CPAC, Torture, CIA
By Andrew Ramonas | February 12, 2010 6:29 pm
Once the target of scores of protesters, “torture” memo author John Yoo doesn’t seem to attract them like he used to.
Tags: CIA, John Yoo, Torture, CIA
By Joe Palazzolo | January 30, 2010 11:15 am
An earlier, harsher draft concluded that the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers failed to meet their professional obligations when crafting a 2002 memo blessing harsh interrogation techniques.
Tags: Alberto Gonzales, CIA, David Addington, David Margolis, Dick Cheney, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Michael Chertoff, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of Professional Responsibility, Torture, CIA
By Stephanie Woodrow | November 20, 2009 5:13 pm
Judge Jay S. Bybee is the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel who authorized the so-called torture memos.
Tags: Bruce Nielson, Carolyn Colton, CIA, Eric Holder, James M. Spears, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Office of Professional Responsibility, Senate Judiciary Committee, Tortue, torture memos, Torture, CIA
By Andrew Ramonas | November 18, 2009 2:28 pm
Democrats are clamoring for the results of an internal investigation of former Justice Department lawyers who authored the so-called “torture memos.”
Tags: CIA, Eric Holder, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Office of Professional Responsibility, Senate Judiciary Committee, torture memos, Torture, CIA
By Joe Palazzolo | November 3, 2009 6:41 pm
Daniel Levin subjected himself to water boarding at a military base near Washington to see for himself whether it was torture.
Tags: Alberto Gonzales, CIA, Daniel Levin, enhanced interrogation, Eric Holder, Jay Bybee, John Durham, John Yoo, Office of Legal Counsel, Torture, CIA
By Steve Bagley | September 27, 2009 3:11 pm
A Republican boycott of a Senate inquiry into CIA interrogation techniques “appears to be part of a broader campaign … to pressure” Eric Holder to dump his probe of Bush-era torture allegations, Newsweek’s Isikoff and Hosenball write.
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Dianne Feinstein, Eric Holder, John Durham, Kit Bond, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, CIA
By Stephanie Woodrow | September 25, 2009 10:54 pm
The material relating to harsh interrogations was so sensitive at the time that no copies were made, The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reported.
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, David Barron, Defense Department, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of Professional Responsibility, Pentagon, Torture, CIA
By Stephanie Woodrow | September 3, 2009 1:27 pm
The former Attorney General now says he didn’t mean to suggest he endorsed the investigation of alleged CIA abuses. Rather, he agrees that Attorney General Eric Holder had the authority to order it.
Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, Torture, CIA
