news.yahoo.com - 4/20/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed , the admitted planner of the September 11 attacks, 183 times and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, The New York Times said on Sunday. The Times said a 2005 Justice Department memorandum showed ...
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
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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 ...
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Congress Knew About the Interrogations
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
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propublica.org —
ProPublica Last week, we pointed out that one
of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that
the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called ...
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Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
nydailynews.com - 4/22/2009
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nydailynews.com —
U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding
9/11 mastermind 183 times was a 'success' BY James
Gordon Meek DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Wednesday, April 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex- ...
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U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney's claim that ...
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TalkLeft —
The NYTimes reported: The new information on the number of waterboarding episodes [of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah] came out over the weekend when a number of bloggers, including Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel, discovered it in the May 30, 2005, memo. (Emphasis supplied.) Cheers to the Times for crediting Marcy with the original reporting. Jeers to Reuters: CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the September 11 attacks, 183 ...
Torturing The Al Qaeda-Iraq Connection
Wonk Room —
... Shedding some well-needed light on why it could have possibly been necessary to waterboard someone 183 times, McClatchy reports that according to “a former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue,” former Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld “ ...
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Hooray!... Al-Qaeda Pig & 9-11 Planner Waterboarded 183 Times
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The CIA IG Report: Is Waterboarding KSM 183 Times Really Effective?
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 — I think I've finally gotten some folks to to pay attention to the OLC Memo revelation that KSM was waterboarded 183 times in a month .
In that post, I suggested that if it took 183 uses of waterboarding to make KSM comply with interrogators ...
Waterboarded 183 Times in a Month
newshoggers.com 4/19/2009 — By BJ Bjornson
This post deserves a great deal of attention.
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Waterboarded 183 Times
outsidethebeltway.com 4/19/2009 — Marcy Wheeler picks an interesting factoid out of the “Bradford memo,” one of several documents detailing the interogation techniques used by the U.S. intelligence community released last week by the Obama administration” Khalid ...
Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 —
image courtesy of quapan
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:
Obama visiting CIA after memos' release —
CNN Political Ticker 4/20/2009
President Obama will speak Monday with the workforce at the CIA headquarters.
(CNN) – President Obama on Monday will visit CIA headquarters amid criticism from an ex-CIA chief that he compromised national security last week by releasing ...
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