CIA Lawyer Involved in Interrogation Policy Defends Character

A CIA lawyer implicated in a Senate report as a key figure in the spread of abusive interrogation techniques angrily defended his reputation in a letter to senators — but declined to dispute the key points raised in the report.

Jonathan Fredman, formerly the chief counsel for the CIA’s Counterterrorism More…

Key Player in ‘Enhanced’ Interrogations Still at CIA

“As a general deal,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, “I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards.” But it might be hard to determine the difference. A former top lawyer to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center More…