Government Puts Off Producing Key OLC Memos on Harsh Interrogation Techniques

The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), that reportedly authorized the the CIA to torture prisoners. This is at least the second time that the government More…

CIA Admits Destroying Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes

The CIA today acknowledged in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that it destroyed 92 tapes of harsh interrogations of detainees related to the “war on terror”.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit seeking the information more than five years ago, and more than More…