The CIA and NSA are bickering over who should run intelligence operations in the UK, with battle-lines drawn amongst security heads.
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Bottled waterboarding
CIA interrogators at Guantanamo employed a civilised tool for the brutal task of waterboarding — bottled water, straight from the fridge.
Veterans of secret psychedelic tests want answers
Former American soldiers are filing a suit against the CIA and US Army, claiming they were used as human lab rats to test hundreds of chemical and biological substances in the ’70s.
Pelosi goes on the attack
Republican Nancy Pelosi has attacked the CIA, claiming she was never briefed about water-boarding and that the agency deliberately mislead Congress.
CIA goes back to the future
Great Scott! In 2000, the CIA wrote a report predicting upcoming issues and threats. With the benefit of hindsight, we sneer.
Abu Ghraib guards take the Nuremberg
With the release of the CIA torture memos, guards jailed for their treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison plan to appeal on the grounds that they were “scapegoats” for the Bush Administration.
Torture timeline and Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
According to the Emptywheel’s Torture Timeline, the DIA were getting false information from torture at the same time as they were devising their plan to torture Abu Zubaydah.
We’re all torturers now
The US has become so casual about torture that we now openly debate its efficacy — something nobody would have dared do in the first days after Abu Ghraib, writes Dahlia Lithwick.
Military agency warned against torture in 2002
A US military agency warned the Bush administration in 2002 that harsh interrogation tactics could yield “unreliable information”. Looks like they didn’t listen.
SSCI torture narrative
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a narrative of the general history of torture under the Bush Administration.
The Daily Show: We don’t torture
No-one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they’re just upset that they now know about it.
The story behind the torture memos
The circumstances in which the US torture memos were prepared and the process that led to their release may prove even more significant than their actual content.
