washingtonindependent.com - 5/20/2009
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Ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan’s account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah is roughly this: he and several other interrogators from both FBI and CIA objected to the application of torture techniques from at least April to June 2002 (after which point Soufan left the interrogation team) from a ...
humanevents.com - 5/20/2009
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humanevents.com —
The case against Nancy Pelosi remaining Speaker of
the House is as simple as it is devastating:
The person who is No. 2 in line to be commander in chief can t have contempt for the men and women who protect our nation. America can t afford it. To ...
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Why Pelosi Should Step Down
thinkprogress.org - 5/20/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
This morning, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich
went on ABC’s Good Morning America and called on
Democrats to pressure Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to resign her position as Speaker. He claimed that she has “disqualified herself” ...
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Gingrich: Only Republicans — Like Me — Are Allowed To ...
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New Log of Torture Communications Shows Coordination Between White House, CIA, Zubaydah Questioners
Firedoglake —
... Kleinman, an Air Force Reserve colonel and a trained interrogator affiliated with the military office that oversees the SERE program, told me last week that the real linchpins here aren't Mitchell and his SERE colleague, Bruce Jessen, but the senior CIA officials who gave them contracts in late 2001 and "brought [them] in with eyes wide open, to run an interrogation program." These logs give Kleinman more support for that proposition.
Crossposted to The Streak.
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Bombshell Report Ties Gonzo to Torture, Months before "Authorization"
Daily Kos —
... As Spencer points out, Gonzales wasn't in the DOJ, the CIA, State, or any other agency where he would have had the power to direct the actions of any other agency. He was the president's lawyer, period. And yet, he appears to have been the point of decision-making for torture pre-torture memos. But, obviously, he wasn't acting alone. ...
Senate, NPR Torture Reports Both Include Alberto Gonzales
Firedoglake —
... So, Ari Shapiro's NPR story yesterday placed then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales -- a.k.a. God's gift to Talking Points Memo -- at the center of the decision to torture Abu Zubaydah in the spring of 2002. Gonzales didn't respond to Shapiro's request for comment. But I notice in the Senate intelligence committee's recently declassified narrative of the legal underpinnings of the CIA torture program, there's this account of the first wave of legal deliberation: ...
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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:
Pelosi Torture Shocker! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process!
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/9/2009 — OK. Not really a shocker. We knew that CIA was playing around with its obligation to inform the intelligence committees before it starts any big new projects--like opening torture factories around the world.
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