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Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday.
Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists.
Senior Justice Department lawyers in 2005 sought to limit tough interrogation tactics against terror suspects, but were overruled.
- Thank you all very much, and Arthur, thank you for that introduction. It's good to be back at AEI, where we have many friends. Lynne is one of your longtime scholars, and I'm looking forward to spending more time here myself as a returning trustee. What happened was, they were looking for a new member of the board of trustees, and they asked me to head up the search committee.
New questions surfaced Wednesday about the accuracy of a CIA document meant to settle who in Congress knew about severe interrogation methods approved by the Bush administration.
Barack Obama warned Democrats in Congress against making a partisan cause out of the Bush administration's harsh interrogation tactics.
As a member of Condoleezza Rice's inner circle at the State Department, Philip Zelikow argued within the Bush administration that simulated drowning and other extreme interrogation techniques were illegal. Congress will get a look at those internal battles when Zelikow testifies Wednesday before a Senate committee.
Casting aside their president's misgivings, Democrats are racing into hearings to criticize newly released Bush administration memos justifying harsh terrorism interrogations.
It's a political squall that won't die: What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about harsh questioning of detainees, and when did she know it? On Friday, the California Democrat was forced to issue yet another press release, reiterating her past assertions that she had been briefed in 2002 only on new interrogation techniques that had been deemed legal and were planned for future use.
CIA records show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on harsh interrogation techniques being used on terrorist suspects, but the records do little to settle a dispute over whether she knew waterboarding had already been used against one prisoner by then.
Justice Department investigators say Bush administration lawyers who approved harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects should not face criminal charges, according to a draft report that also recommends two of the three attorneys face possible professional sanctions.
Top House Republicans are calling for the CIA to release to Congress its records on the classified briefings it conducted for lawmakers on its harsh interrogation program in an effort to establish what Democrats knew about those techniques.
Sen. John McCain says pursuing charges against Bush administration officials who approved harsh interrogations for suspected terrorists might be an effort to settle some old political scores.
A leading Democratic senator said Sunday independent investigators should determine whether Bush administration officials ought to face charges over the harsh interrogation techniques used against suspected terrorists.
The White House on Thursday said it did not support creation of an independent panel to investigate the Bush administration's harsh interrogations of terror suspects.
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.
Five previously unacknowledged secret memos revealing new information about the Bush administration's interrogation policies remain hidden in government file cabinets, a Senate report disclosed Wednesday.
A new document indicates the CIA first proposed waterboarding alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to top Bush administration officials in mid-May 2002, three months before the Justice Department approved the interrogation technique in a secret legal opinion.
An Army Reserve brigadier general demoted because of prisoner abuses at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq says a new Senate report supports claims that uniformed military people were made "scapegoats" for Bush administration prisoner interrogation policies.
As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique.
Three Bush administration lawyers who worked in an elite Justice Department unit face further scrutiny over their advice on how to conduct tough interrogations of terror suspects, but criminal prosecution remains only an outside possibility.
A look at the White House's shifting rhetoric on the possibility of prosecutions stemming from CIA interrogation techniques against terror suspects.
Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation.
President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost "our moral bearings" with use of the tactics.
The CIA's secret interrogation program amounted to torture for some of the 14 "high-value detainees" held by the agency, according to published excerpts of an internal 2006 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
NSF Interrogation"UNATCO assumes that people are incapable of protecting themselves and therefore should submit to surveillance and intimidation by an outside force. We won't do it!"
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. isIt's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
Papers detail FBI, CIA struggle over detainees - Agencies were at odds over access, treatment of high-value prisonersWASHINGTON - Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA over how to treat high-value prisoners.
Congress Moves to Require Taped Detainee Sessions Congress is moving to require videotaping of interrogations of detainees held by the military, a step proponents say will prevent abuse and create a valuable intelligence record.
Torture: Not Just an Evil Necessity, But the New Republican ValueThe New York Times reports that Liz Cheney's star is rising in the party of torture:"Mr.
I've repeatedly seen the claim that former president Bush and his administration tortured terrorist suspects. This claim often points to the so called "waterboarding" as the torture.
Catching everyone up to speed: It is early Sunday morning Nov 1st, 20** and all traffic on the Interstates into major cities around the nation have been brought to a halt by vehicles being abandoned and set on fire.
For those just tuning in: A hypothetical attack has taken place involving an unknown force. The discussion is how DHS should, will, or may respond. The saga continues:
Report: CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Brain Functions of Terror SuspectsA new scientific paper scrutinizes the interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens of neurobiology.
Vote: Does Obama probe jeopardize CIA's ability to do its job? President Obama made it clear Sunday that, in spite of a letter sent to him by seven former CIA directors urging that he halt Attorney General Eric Holder's investigation into alleged CIA interrogation abuses, he has no intention of stopping the process.
Study: CIA interrogations made for bad dataThe CIA's harsh interrogation program likely damaged the brain functions of terror suspects, diminishing their ability to provide information, according to a new scientific paper.
Studies Show Ease of Eliciting False ConfessionsA minor landslide of research from the past few years points to a dismaying fact about memory — it can be manipulated, far more often and extensively than previously thought.
More Professional Interrogators Come Down in Favor of Investigations on TortureIt has been widely reported that in the coming days Attorney General Eric Holder will likely appoint a prosecutor to investigate potential crimes of torture and cruelty used on detainees in U.S. custody.
49% Oppose Justice Department Probe of Bush-era CIAifty-four percent (54%) of all voters, however, believe the investigation of past CIA interrogation practices endangers the national security of the United States. Only 29% say it helps the image of America abroad, and 18% are not sure.
McCain Admits Bush Torture Violated TreatiesEvery state that signed on to the legislation -- and we didn't just sign on to it, we were the ones pushing every other country to sign it -- is obligated to prosecute those who engage in torture under its jurisdiction, and no excuse whatsoever can justify such actions.
Torture's Ugly Dialogue - Richard CohenThe questions of what constitutes torture and what to do with those who, maybe innocently, applied what we now define as torture have to be removed from the political sphere.
Media Ape Goebbels in Defending CIA AbusesEXTRA! Read all about it in the Washington Post: Torture worked; Cheney and torture practitioners vindicated; morale at CIA harmed.
Cheney Criticizes Probe of CIA InterrogationsFormer vice president Richard B.
Dick Cheney Terrified Of CIA ProbeCheney said, "I just think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage, long term, to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say." Dick Ch …
In How a Detainee Became An Asset, The Washington Post provided objective information on the success achieved using enhanced interrogation techniques in the case of Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
Dick Cheney: Mix Chutzpah and Hypocrisy in Equal Measure, Shake VigorouslyNotice how carefully he words that sentence. The individuals subjected to torture (I refuse to use that ridiculous euphemism) gave us good intelligence, he says; what he does not say, because he can't support it, is that it was the torture that made them do so.
CIA Interrogation Program Was Effective and CircumscribedWhoever advised people to be skeptical of what they read in the papers must have had in mind this week's coverage of the documents about CIA interrogations.
Cheney's CIA memos don't show what he said they'd show. - By Timothy Noah - Slate MagazineIn April, after the Obama White House released memos documenting the Central Intelligence Agency's use of what the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what everybody else called "torture," former Vice President Dick Cheney made a show of demanding t …
Limbaugh Defends Harsh Interrogation Tactics, Including Threats Against Children"Rush continued to talk about the CIA interrogators. He mentioned reports that interrogators threatened detainees with a power drill and staged mock executions of other detainees. "If this is true," said Rush, "I think they're pretty clever techniques.
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