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List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
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ProPublica The CIA has not released the names of terrorism suspects it held in secret detention with the exception of 14 who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, in September 2006. Human rights groups have tried to track those identities using publicly available information about high-profile ...
cnsnews.com - 4/21/2009
CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los ...
— cnsnews.com — (CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in... a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of enhanced techniques of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) ... (more) CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info ...

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online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
Congress Knew About the Interrogations
— online.wsj.com — PETER HOEKSTRA Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how... easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used ... (more) Congress Knew About the Interrogations

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Presidential Poison
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
Presidential Poison
— online.wsj.com — Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new... era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison ... (more) Presidential Poison

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The CIA's Ghost Prisoners
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... At least three dozen others who were held in the CIA's secret prisons overseas appear to be missing as well. Efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful, and no foreign governments have acknowledged holding them. ...

Bush's Desaparecidos
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... But Ghul is not the only such prisoner who remains missing. At least three dozen others who were held in the CIA's secret prisons overseas appear to be missing as well. Efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful, and no foreign governments have acknowledged holding them. (See the full list. [2]) ...

The Disappeared
Newshoggers.com — ... has a list today of thirty five people who were imprisoned in Bush's secret CIA prisons and who have now disappeared - no-one will acknowledge holding them. If former CIA director Michael Hayden was telling the truth when he said only about 100 detainees were ever held at CIA black sites, then over a third have been simply disappeared without trace. ...

Where Are the CIA's Missing Prisoners?
Daily Kos — ... Dafna Linzer pointed out at ProPublica Wednesday that, according to Human Rights Watch, 35 suspects known to have been held in secret prisons as far back as 2001 are still unaccounted for.   ...

Hannity's Waterboarding Distraction Trivializes Torture, Minimizes Murder and Appeals to the Sadist in Us All
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... and CIA documents and determined that at least 32 terrorism suspects that were in CIA custody have gone missing . The CIA declined to comment on the list, aside from saying it was probably "flawed." There's no way to confirm whether these people are even still living, much less what techniques they've been subjected to. However, the whole situation has the stench of Latin American dictators "disappearing" people attached to it. With Americans' heads swimming in these many sets of numbers, the individual stories within this sad chapter of our country's history are easily ...

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Memo: 2 al Qaeda leaders waterboarded 266 times — CNN.com - Politics 4/20/2009
CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects, according to a Bush-era Justice Department memo released by the Obama administration.
Cafferty: Waterboarding 2 members of al Qaeda 266 times constitute a crime? — CNN Political Ticker 4/21/2009
Join the conversation on Jack's blog. Those hotly debated Bush era interrogation memos include this little nugget: CIA officials waterboarded two al Qaeda suspects 266 times. Interrogators waterboarded Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August ...
CIA reportedly declined to closely evaluate harsh interrogations — L.A. Times - Politics 4/26/2009
Current and former U.S. officials say the failure to carefully examine the value of 'enhanced' methods such as waterboarding -- despite calls to do so as early as 2003 -- was part of a broader trend. >  ...