In a just-released letter urging President Obama not to make any public pronouncements about who should and shouldn’t be prosecuted for torture until the Senate intelligence committee completes its review of the CIA’s interrogation and detention program, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee’s chairwoman, released an interesting piece of information: More…
Music fan and CIA Director Mike Hayden released this statement to the agency in the wake of President Obama’s interrogations/detentions cataclysm:
President Obama issued an Executive Order today setting out new instructions for the detention, rendition and interrogation of captured terrorists. The legal
Jason Leopold at The Public Record writes about an email that turned up in the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealing that, contrary to Bush administration claims in the past, an executive order signed by President Bush specifically authorized hooding, sleep deprivation, the use of attack dogs, loud More…
Yesterday, in an interview with The New York Times’ Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) appeared to leave rhetorical wiggle room about whether the CIA could use torture during interrogations. Her staff clarified the statement, and then clarified to me a little further — though More…
When Joshua Casteel arrived at Abu Ghraib in June 2004 to interrogate detainees, he knew how notorious the Iraqi prison was. He arrived in the wake of a still-notorious scandal. Earlier that spring, CBS News and The New Yorker magazine published the infamous photographs from late 2003, More…
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