usatoday.com - 4/17/2009
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Interrogation techniques approved in 2002 by the Justice Department and detailed in memos released Thursday: Attention grasp: "Grasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion." Walling: A fake, flexible wall is built, and the ...
online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
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DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and LEE A. CASEY
The four memos on CIA interrogation released by the...
White House last week reveal a cautious and conservative Justice Department advising a CIA that cared deeply about staying within the law. Far from "green ...
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The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture
washingtonpost.com - 4/16/2009
online.wsj.com - 4/16/2009
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EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON -- The
Obama administration is expected to release some operational details...
of a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program and its legal rationale, while seeking to keep secret the names of detainees ...
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Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released
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Obama National Intelligence Director Declares Terrorist Threat Over
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... or pushing them against a “fake, flexible wall” or “Grasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion” are horrors beyond our imagining these days - as opposed to things most of us would associate with grammar school - but it’s far more frightening to me to hear the DNI telling us that we’re too safe these days to worry anymore about the need to get intelligence quickly out of captured terrorists. ...
WAR: Obama National Intelligence Director Declares Terrorist Threat Over
Baseball Crank —
... or pushing them against a "fake, flexible wall" or "Grasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion" are horrors beyond our imagining these days - as opposed to things most of us would associate with grammar school - but it's far more frightening to me to hear the DNI telling us that we're too safe these days to worry anymore about the need to get intelligence quickly out of captured terrorists. ...
The Inverted Conscience of Barack Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... memos, we learn that men like Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, one of the principal architects of the September 11 attacks that killed over 3,000 Americans (note to those keeping score at home: this is incontestably a war crime) and Abu Zubaydah, who the CIA told OLC had “been involved in every major terrorist operation carried out by Al Qaeda” and “wrote Al Qaeda’s manual on resistance techniques” to interrogation, were approved for subjection to techniques like the following:
Facial grasp: “Used to hold the head immobile. ...
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resident Obama continued to make the case for sweeping economic reforms this week.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President Obama continued to make the case for sweeping economic reforms this week as he approaches the symbolically important ...
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