Nation Dec 24 Senate, CIA agree interrogation program was mismanaged By Stephen Braun, Associated Press
Nation Dec 23 Torture can affect the brain, leaving long-term psychological scars WASHINGTON — At times, waterboarding rendered al-Qaida terror suspect Abu Zubaydah hysterical. But later, a message to CIA headquarters described an interrogator merely lifting his eyebrow and snapping his fingers, leading Zubaydah to "slowly (walk) on his own to the… By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
Politics Dec 12 Video: Comparing Bush’s 2006 claims about CIA interrogation to what we know now In a 2006 speech to the nation, President Bush outlined the U.S.’s successes in capturing and questioning high-level terrorists involved with the 9/11 attacks. The president also lauded the contributions of intelligence officers in their quest to bring those responsible… By Margaret Myers
Politics Dec 12 Is rectal feeding an actual modern medical practice? One of the more dramatic findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation practices is that some uncooperative detainees were subjected to “rectal rehydration” and “rectal feedings.” But doctors say the practice is almost never used, that… By Domenico Montanaro
Dec 12 Watch The Senate’s 2014 Intelligence Report compared to President Bush’s 2006 Speech on Terrorism By PBS NewsHour
Dec 11 Watch 10:48 Brennan strikes back at scathing CIA interrogation report By PBS NewsHour In a rare news conference, CIA Director John Brennan defended the agency’s record on so-called enhanced interrogation techniques and conceded abuses. While Brennan said that in some cases harsh tactics led to or confirmed important information, he admitted the cause-and-effect… Continue watching
Dec 11 Read the full Senate report on CIA interrogation and the minority report in response By News Desk Senate investigators delivered a damning indictment of CIA practices Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners beyond legal limits and deceiving the nation with narratives of life-saving interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records. Read… Continue reading
Dec 11 CIA director: Some agency officers used ‘abhorrent’ interrogation tactics By News Desk Updated at 3:06 p.m. EST | CIA Director John Brennan said Thursday in response to the release of a Senate report on the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation tactics that some agency officers used "abhorrent" techniques and it was "unknowable" whether they… Continue reading
Dec 11 U.S. passes $18 trillion in debt, and nothing’s being done about it By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Simone Pathe A story away from the pack for you this morning. Just in case you don’t check the national-debt-to-the-penny website from the Treasury Department regularly, we do. And in the past two weeks, we saw the national debt rise above $18… Continue reading
Dec 10 Psychologist defends harsh CIA interrogations, challenges Senate report’s accuracy By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — One of the two psychologists paid millions for designing the CIA’s post-Sept. 11 program of brutal interrogations defends the treatment of al-Qaida detainees and disputes a critical Senate report. Continue reading