washingtonindependent.com - 1/23/2009
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Both civil libertarians and ex-CIA officials involved in interrogations and detentions policies welcome the changes.
abcnews.go.com - 1/23/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
The CIA's bombing campaign against al Qaeda leadership
in Pakistan continued with two more attacks today, an
indication, senior officials say, that President Barack Obama has approved the U.S. strategy that has killed at least eight of al Qaeda's top ...
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Obama to CIA: Bombs Away! No Let Up in US Drone Attacks
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/25/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
There Are No Files From the Washington Post:
"President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of
about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming...
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There Are No Files
online.wsj.com - 1/23/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Most politicians would rather do anything than make
a difficult choice, and it seems President Obama hasn't
abandoned this Senatorial habit. To wit, yesterday's executive order on interrogation: It imposes broad limits on how aggressively U.S. ...
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Jack Bauer Exception: Obama's Order Wants It Both ...
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CIA Welcomes End of Torture; Debra Saunders, Not So Much
If I Ran the Zoo —
This is interesting: according to an article by Spencer Ackerman, Obama's executive order prohibiting torture is likely to be welcomed by the CIA: ...
Obama to close Guantanamo, ban torture
Majikthise —
... Spencer Ackerman reports on today's four bold executive orders by Barack Obama: President Barack Obama took a major step toward undoing the interrogation and detention policies of the Bush administration on Thursday, issuing four executive orders that lay out an unequivocal path to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, constructing a new legal and policy architecture for terrorism detainees, and ending the CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” regime. Both civil libertarians and ex-CIA officials involved in interrogations and detentions ...
While He’s Washing, Watch Him
Firedoglake —
... I was talking with a reporter friend last night about President Obama's executive orders on detentions, interrogations and Guantanamo. We were simply amazed by how far Obama went in repudiating the Bush era -- the CIA secret prisons: closed; extraordinary rendition: ended; Geneva Common Article 3: the "minimum baseline" for detainee treatment; Guantanamo: to be closed. If you're Dick Cheney, and you view these orders alongside ...
If Torture is for the Lazy, Stupid, and Pseudo-Tough, What Does that Make the CIA?
Firedoglake —
... about the backstory to last week's executive orders. Craig tells Mayer that the advocates for the new reviews of detentions and interrogations policy who made the biggest impact on Obama were a team of retired flag officers who've met with Obama over the course of 2007. Their arguments about torture being "the tool of the lazy, the stupid, and the pseudo-tough," in the words of ret. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton -- one of the ringleaders of ...
ACLU Sends Defense Department Letter Requesting Information About Bagram Detainees
Think Progress —
... even the most basic facts about Bagram. And, as long as the Bagram prison is shrouded in secrecy, there is no way to know the truth or begin to address the problems that exist there.
There is no doubt that the Obama Administration has done much to reverse the Bush Administration’s disastrous record on civil liberties. Immediately after coming into office, Obama issued executive orders mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and banning torture.
Yet civil liberties advocates continue to warn that the same “ ...
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Obama Redacts His Rendition Position
patdollard.com 2/6/2009 —
Must’ve actually READ some of the daily shit Pres. Bush has been reading for the last eight years. Hey, Bam … break all mirrors in the White House. You’re about to go gray.
Just wondering here …
Think those Hollywood ...
Obama's No-Torture Order and CIA Secret Renditions
talkleft.com 2/12/2009 — Last week I wrote that the Center for Constitutional Rights questioned President Barack Obama's January 22 orders on interrogation and closing Guantanamo, cautioning that while they in no uncertain terms stated the CIA must close its secret black ...
"Truth Commission" a Go
minx.cc 2/28/2009 — The Church Committee destroyed the CIA's operations division for... well, forever. Let's see if we can't hit that mark again. The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if...
Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 —
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In another thread, Bob Schacht wrote ,
BTW, according to CNN, Haynes and Mukasey are claiming that “half” of what we “know” about Al Qaeda came from torture sessions. Did they really write that, and if so, I’m ...
Don't Kill the CIA
WWW.samefacts.com 4/27/2009 — It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong. Let me suggest just a few reasons why:
The Role of the CIA
lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/18/2009 — Spencer has some thoughts: And here's how it's problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they'll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there's some wiggle room in that ...
What The CIA Did
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, ...
Double Jeopardy | Human Rights Watch
hrw.org 2/2/2009 — Recommendations The US government should: Repudiate the use of rendition to torture as a counterterrorism tactic and permanently discontinue the CIA's rendition program; Disclose the identities, fate, and current whereabouts of all persons detained by ...
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 ...
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