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CIA Director Nominee Supported Destruction of Torture Tapes
Haspel drafted the cable ordering the tapes’ destruction at the request of her boss at the time, the CIA’s former top operations officer, Jose Rodriguez.
May 9, 2018
Trump’s New CIA Director Nominee Helped Cover Up Torture
Trump's support for Haspel, currently the CIA deputy director, follows the president’s repeated praise for techniques widely described as torture.
March 13, 2018
ICC Prosecutor Says U.S. May Have Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan
The International Criminal Court says that American forces and CIA officers subjected at least 88 detainees in Afghanistan to techniques that amounted to war crimes.
November 16, 2016
Voices of Detainees and Dissent in New CIA "Enhanced Interrogation" Documents
New documents fill in some gaps in public knowledge about the CIA's post-9/11 detention and interrogation program that was investigated by the Senate.
June 16, 2016
Did "Enhanced Interrogation" Break the CIA's Own Rules on "Human Experimentation"?
The CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" may have violated its own guidelines on human experimentation, according to previously classified documents published by the Guardian.
June 15, 2015
John Rizzo: The Legal Case for "Enhanced Interrogation"
"I did consider the implications of the U.S. government in any way, shape or form going down this road," says the former CIA attorney. "But my major concern as the chief lawyer was: Were these techniques legal?"
May 19, 2015
Dianne Feinstein: The CIA "Cannot Shove the Laws Aside"
It's crucial for the United States to confront its use of torture in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and vow, "never again," says the veteran California Democrat.
May 19, 2015
John McLaughlin: CIA Interrogations Were Legal, Moral and Effective
It's too simplistic to write off the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program as torture, says the agency's former deputy director. "Wouldn’t it be equally immoral if we failed to get this information," he asks.
May 19, 2015
Mark Udall: The U.S. "Treated People in Inhumane, Terrible Ways"
The former Colorado senator says that when he learned the details of the CIA's covert interrogation program, he “physically felt sick.”
May 19, 2015
What the CIA Did to Its Detainees
Here's what we know about the 39 men who were subjected to the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques."
May 19, 2015
Watch: The Torture Question
FRONTLINE investigates how the post-9/11 "get tough" policy of the U.S. government worked its way down to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib.
May 19, 2015
Why You Never Saw The CIA's Interrogation Tapes
When videotapes depicting "enhanced interrogations" of two Al Qaeda suspects in CIA detention were destroyed, even the agency's own lawyer says he was shocked.
May 19, 2015
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