Tag: Torture

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WH: Cheney is wrong on ‘torture’

Susan Crabtree · December 15, 2014 8:05 pm

In this handout released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Northrop Grumman, an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator launches from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on May 14, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Alan Radecki/U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman via Getty images)

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Amid torture debate, why no soul-searching on drones?

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 8:42 pm

Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday that defenders of extreme interrogation techniques were conducting a "rewriting of history." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

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John McCain: Critics of ‘torture’ report ‘rewriting’ history

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 6:36 pm

Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden said this bill leaves "workers, families and businesses wanting." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Ron Wyden not comfortable with John Brennan as CIA director

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 4:25 pm

"Torture is what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11," former Vice President Dick Cheney said. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty images)

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Dick Cheney says U.S. did not torture terror suspects

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 4:02 pm

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., presides over a subcommittee hearing earlier this month. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Extreme interrogations didn’t lead to Osama bin Laden

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 3:18 pm

This March 25, 2014 file photo shows former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., leaving a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rep. Mike Rogers: ‘Torture’ probe ‘not a bipartisan report’

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 2:35 pm

CIA Director John Brennan is the man in the middle, and it's clearly an uncomfortable position. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

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Dual loyalties stretch CIA chief

Susan Crabtree · December 12, 2014 2:36 pm

National Security

Chuck Todd on CIA report: ‘You’ve got to remember the way things felt in the moment’

Eddie Scarry · December 12, 2014 1:26 pm

CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged that the agency made mistakes in carrying out a program of extreme interrogation techniques in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, but he denied that he or his colleagues systemically misled the public or Congress about the program's effectiveness. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

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CIA chief: Some officers ‘failed to live up to standards’

Susan Crabtree · December 11, 2014 8:39 pm

CIA Director John Brennan pauses as he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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White House: Obama maintains ‘full confidence’ in CIA chief

Susan Crabtree · December 11, 2014 7:04 pm

In this March 3, 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government ineptitude, CIA-style

Steve Chapman · December 11, 2014 5:16 pm