washingtonpost.com - 4/17/2009
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Top military intelligence officials at the Abu Ghraib prison came to an agreement with the CIA to hide certain detainees at the facility without officially registering them, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Keeping such "ghost" detainees is a violation of international ...
propublica.org - 4/17/2009
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propublica.org —
A newly released memo inadvertently reveals the name
of a 'ghost detainee' Among the OLC memos released...
today , one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/18/2009
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Rizzo via David Silver In his statement on
the torture memos today, Obama suggested that some of...
the "assumptions" about what Americans had done were wrong, and that releasing the memos would correct these "assumptions." ...
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OLC Memos: Inflamatory Assumptions? Rizzo Lied to Cover ...
justoneminute.typepad.com - 4/17/2009
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Its a global Move On Day - Eric
Holder won't be pursuing torture investigations within the CIA...
and the Spanish won't be pursuing the Bush Six. I am not a crazed lefty lawyer so I never understood how Holder could...
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OLC Redaction Fail: Where is Hassan Ghul?
Firedoglake —
... Since then, he has been considered a missing, or ghost detainee [6]. But in the heavily redacted OLC memo [7] dated May 30, 2005, government censors appeared to have missed a single reference to his name and confinement during a lengthy description of the interrogation techniques used against him. The reference can be found at the bottom of Page 7 in the memo [7], where Ghul’s surname is spelled "Gul." ...
So it appears we now have evidence Ghul was in a CIA prison. Where he is today is still a mystery. ...
Newly released OLC memo inadvertently reveals the name of a ‘ghost detainee.’
Think Progress —
... in Iraq, who Bush said “reported directly to Khalid Sheik Mohammad.” The Bush administration told the 9/11 Commission that Ghul was in “U.S. custody,” but his whereabouts were never revealed and the CIA “never acknowledged holding him.” ProPublica reports, however, that one of the recently released OLC memos reveals that Ghul was held and abused by the CIA:
Since then, he has been considered a missing, or ghost detainee. But in the heavily redacted OLC memo dated May 30, 2005, government censors ...
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politics.theatlantic.com 4/17/2009 — The Justice Department today
released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the
program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called
CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, ...
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attackerman.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 —
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These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval times , but in the way that the OLC acted for the CIA. These ...
Graham: CIA Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, They Did Not
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/16/2009 —
I've got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. That was wrong (RawStory reported the number correctly, though). They gave erroneous dates ...
An interrogation memo —
L.A. Times - Politics 4/17/2009
Excerpts from an Aug. 1, 2002, memo granting the CIA permission to use certain interrogation techniques on suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah.
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'Suffocation and incipient ...
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