I was (mostly) offline yesterday but saw people on Twitter freaking out over blog posts that compared the CIA to the Nazis because of interrogations. So Jane Mayer has a calm, poignant corrective: she reads the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report and it puts her in mind of a More…
It’s been an amazing thing: faced with hundreds of pages of documents disclosed last week that explicitly state and thoroughly demonstrate that it’s unknown whether “enhanced interrogation” worked, all it takes for the press to ignore the record is for former Vice President Dick Cheney to bluster aggressively. After More…
When he goes on Fox News! Yes, the former vice president is going to sit down with Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the CIA’s torture disclosures and the discrepancy between what they say and what he said they’d say. Right, Chris? Yeah?
The deluge continues. Word comes that in response to pending requests from the American Civil Liberties Union, another tranche of CIA documents about Bush-era interrogations and detentions could be released as early as Monday. That’s on top this week’s release of the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture; two More…
Commenter Decora points to some references to diapering in the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel memoranda on torture. What’s striking is how the CIA describes the technique — evidently used, according to both the 2004 CIA inspector general report and the 2007 Red Cross report, in support More…
The CIA’s Office of Medical Services was very clear in its September 2003 guidelines about the objective of the “enhanced interrogation” techniques were. “In all instances,” reads the Sept. 4, 2003 memorandum, “the general goal of these techniques is a psychological impact, and not some physical effect, with a More…
It’s getting worse with each hour after Dave’s post. Last night former Vice President Dick Cheney elided the distinction between valuable intelligence that came from detainees and valuable intelligence that came from enhanced interrogation techniques. He did so for a simple reason: he said publicly, for More…
I’ll be totally honest: I’m swamped with other documents, but Greg Sargent has read through some newly acquired CIA documents from the American Civil Liberties Union and emerges with a portrait of how extraordinary rendition worked. More when I can dig through the document.
On MSNBC’s “Live with Carlos Watson” this morning, TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared in a roundtable with Scott Horton of Harper’s and NBC Justice correspondent Pete Williams to talk about the newly released 2004 CIA inspector general report on torture. In case you missed it, you More…
Four months ago, Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein of Politico reported that former Vice President Dick Cheney was “pushing the CIA to declassify files that he claims would vindicate the CIA’s use of coercive interrogation techniques that President Barack Obama has banned.” It was one of many stories that More…
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