As we reported two days ago, the CIA has admitted to the use of waterboarding. However, they qualified it by saying they’ve only used it on three high value detainees and not again over the last five years. Mike McConnell the intelligence director was quick to point out though, that waterboarding still remained [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Waterboarding’
Waterboarding is a Game of Three Card Monty
Posted in torture, tagged Bush, CIA, Michael Hayden, Mike McConnell, torture, Waterboarding on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Waterboarding? Youbetcha
Posted in CIA, torture, tagged Al-Qaeda, CIA, Iraq, Michael Hayden, Mike McConnell, torture, Waterboarding on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CIA Chief Michael Hayden has admitted that the CIA used waterboarding,but only on three people and not at all in the last five years. However, Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says waterboarding still remains in the CIA’s arsenal.
Waterboarding Like “Flipping A Switch”, Dems and Republicans Agree.
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, torture, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Congress, DoJ, Pelosi, torture, Waterboarding on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s clear to us why Pelosi took impeachment off the table. She and her cohorts supported the President’s descent into war crimes and as we reported earlier asked whether or not the torture techniques used were tough enough.
The First Obstruction Case?
Posted in CIA, Guantanamo Bay, enemy combatant, torture, tagged CIA, Guantanamo, Majid Kahn, torture, Waterboarding on December 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to the the New York Times Majid Khan, the first of the high-value terrorism suspects at Gitmo to meet with a private lawyer has said he was subject to state sanctioned torture, including waterboarding. This could well be the first obstruction of justice case to come out of the CIA tape case. [...]
CIA Tape Case Update: Blood In The Water
Posted in CIA, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, intelligence community, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Congress, DoJ, Guantanamo, torture, Waterboarding on December 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The blood is in the water on the CIA tape case, as was broken on Friday, the CIA has destroyed two tapes which contain evidence of waterboarding. This prompted a firestorm of accusations about who knew what, when, and whether or not there is a case to be made about obstruction of justice. Republicans [...]
Update: CIA Tape Case
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, Edward Kennedy, torture, tagged CIA, Edward Kennedy, torture, Waterboarding on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Senator Edward Kennedy has release a statement on the CIA Tape case. According to the statement, congress was not notified. This contradicts a line in the earlier post on the Washington Post/New York Times articles that ran today. A few telling tidbits:
It is particularly difficult to take the Director’s explanation at [...]
CIA Destroys Evidence of Waterboarding
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, US Congress, torture, tagged Bush Administration, CIA, Congress, torture, Waterboarding on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post is running a story this morning that the CIA has destroyed video tapes of its agents using waterboarding against two Al-Qaeda suspects. All the tapes were destroyed in November of 2005 on the order of the CIA’s head of Clandestine Operations. According to the article:
The destruction came after the Justice Department [...]
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