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CIA Says Military Officers Threatened Detainees, Too
I’m already hearing speculative groans that the CIA planted this story with Walter Pincus at The Washington Post today about how a military commander in 2003 did things just as bad as the things the CIA interrogators discussed in the recently-released CIA inspector general report did, so Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigation into CIA actions [...]
Bush Officials Lobbying to Soften DOJ Ethics Report on Torture Memos
Former Bush administration officials are urging the Justice Department to soften the criticisms contained in an ethics report examining the work of the lawyers who justified torture and other harsh interrogation techniques, reports The Washington Post.
According to two anonymous sources, lawyers for the subjects of the investigation — which include former Office of Legal Counsel [...]
Court Order To Release Controversial Yemeni Snitch Could Cause More Problems at Gitmo
A Guantanamo Bay detainee who The Washington Post recently outed as a widely used but unreliable informant on his fellow prisoners won a court order for his release on Monday.
“In dozens of interviews over several years at the U.S. military prison — where he was rewarded with his own cell, McDonald’s apple pies, chewing tobacco, [...]
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