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The Guardian
February 9, 2018
But it was not until mid-January, around one week after their capture in eastern Syria, that the Kurds – and their CIA colleagues at the interrogation centre ... Together, the quartet's depravity had been showcased by Isis in a series of shocking execution videos that they filmed during the height of the group'sÃÂ ...
Toledo Blade
February 9, 2018
Mr. Zubaydah was then subjected to torture — he was once waterboarded 83 times in a month, videotapes of which were destroyed by the CIA — and has suffered, according to his attorney Joseph Margulies, a complete mental collapse. In 2009, the CIA privately acknowledged that Mr. Zubaydah was notÃÂ ...
Consortium News
January 31, 2018
On March 2, 2009, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors disclosed for the first time that the CIA had “destroyed 92 videotapes documenting the harsh interrogations of two Qaeda suspects in CIA detention.” The order to destroy the tapes, the Times says, was given by Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.,ÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 26, 2018
"This reminds me of the CIA 'accidentally' destroying videos of torture,'" he said. "Some have made an issue of videos of torture being destroyed." It had been widely assumed that the CIA destroyed such records simply because of the potentially graphic nature of the abuse, Husseini acknowledged.
Truthdig
January 24, 2018
In fact, Pelosi was briefed by the NSA and CIA on all manner of crimes, including warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, in violation of the Fourth ... may recall reporting on the videotapes of waterboarding at a CIA “black site” in Thailand in 2002, tapes that were deliberately destroyed in 2005 at the orderÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
January 24, 2018
Newly released emails detail the contentious back-and-forth between two Democratic senators and the Central Intelligence Agency for access to an internal review of the United ... The agency had already destroyed interrogation videos in 2005, which triggered the Senate's investigation in the first place.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 23, 2018
CIA officials initially claimed that the videotapes were destroyed to protect the identity of the interrogators — read torturers. It was later revealed that then-Executive Director of the CIA, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, wrote in an email that Rodriguez thought “the heat from destroying is nothing compared with what itÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
January 15, 2018
Hassan Nasrallah and Abdelmalik al-Houthi, the current head of the movement, praise each other in videos posted online. .... In “Kings and Presidents,” a book on the history of U.S.-Saudi relations, the former C.I.A. officer Bruce Riedel writes that “no president since Franklin Roosevelt courted Saudi ArabiaÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 23, 2017
Fifteen years after he helped devise the brutal interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects in secret C.I.A. prisons, John Bruce Jessen, a former .... In his deposition, Dr. Mitchell revealed that he, along with others, urged the C.I.A. to destroy videotapes the agency had made of some interrogations.
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
So, Al Qaeda and its regional enablers were frantic to reverse Trump's decision, which was accomplished by his emotional reaction to videos on cable news ... At the time, I was told by an intelligence source that at least some CIA analysts believed that the sarin incident indeed had been staged with sarinÃÂ ...
Reaction
November 24, 2017
One example is the current deputy director of the CIA who, ... took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations.
New Statesman
November 14, 2017
Basically, if you've seen something in her videos and wanted it, you can now ... Vlogger JaackMaate quite literally destroyed the calendar in his ...
The Cipher Brief
November 13, 2017
In the United States, the CIA collects, produces and distributes open source ... coordinate operations and distribute vivid battlefield videos edited to ... In 2015, the U.S. military destroyed an ISIS bomb factory only 23 hours after ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
November 3, 2017
The CIA this week released 47,000 files captured during the 2011 raid on ... and Hamza often appeared in propaganda videos with his father when he was ... With ISIS's “caliphate” now all but destroyed, its political project of ...
The Inquisitr
November 1, 2017
... the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for the first time released the entire collection ... In addition to the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed New York ... However, in addition to videos of Al Qaida terrorists beheading hostages ... To download the Osama bin Laden files, visit the CIA “November 2017Â ...
The New Yorker
October 30, 2017
The videos conveyed the impression that these outsiders had brought ... Its main aim, as Gabbard describes it, is to force the C.I.A. to stop aiding ..... and you dovetail your will with mine, then your life is destroyed,” he said.
Miami Herald
August 25, 2017
11 terror attacks asked the Army trial judge on Friday to fire the prosecution and step down over a secret decision to destroy a CIA prison, and ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 24, 2017
The 6,700-page report contains secret files about the CIA's use of “enhanced” interrogation methods, including waterboarding, sleep ...
CNN
July 20, 2017
(CNN) The CIA program to train and arm moderate rebels was never going to tip the balance in Syria's civil war. At best, it was a lifeline to a ...
snopes.com
July 15, 2017
Reports that a dying CIA agent confessed to blowing up WTC Building 7 on ... demolition” of World Trade Center 7, the third building that was destroyed on 9/11.
New York Times
June 24, 2017
It's hard to watch the videotaped depositions of the two former military ... of detainees held at C.I.A. black sites in the months after the Sept.
New York Times
June 23, 2017
The two psychologists — whom C.I.A. officials have called architects of the ... on behalf of several former prisoners of the Central Intelligence Agency. .... along with others, urged the C.I.A. to destroy videotapes the agency had ...
Mirror.co.uk
May 9, 2017
North Korea vows to "mercilessly destroy" CIA after claiming foreign ... “The Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. and the Intelligence Service ...
Miami Herald
March 7, 2017
Former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo and Jose Rodriguez Jr., the ... that Rodriguez's decision to destroy the videotapes deprives Nashiri of ...
New York Times
February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON — As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina ... later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal ... Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, has said that waterboarding is not ... station in Thailand until 2005, when they were ordered destroyed.
RollingStone.com
December 31, 1999
"[P]eople like you don't give a shit that you destroy innocent humans' lives," she said. ..... Michigan, who alleged that while held as a CIA sex slave, she was .... a moderator responded, "We have all made life insurance videos.
Winston-Salem Journal
December 31, 1999
Aboard those planes, he was taken from one CIA black site in ... plane left him in Thailand were videotaped, but those tapes were destroyed.
KNSS
March 16, 2017
The mob in the CIA were working pretty much hand in hand on other projects at that time as well correct with the whole thing going on Cuba.
World Socialist Web Site
March 10, 2017
She also gave the order in 2005 to destroy videotapes of the interrogation sessions at the Thai site. The administration, headed by a man who boasts of ... the purview of Judge Justin Quackenbush. The suit was filed in 2015 by the American Civil ...
Just Security
March 2, 2017
After the CIA destroyed interrogation videotapes, the ACLU and Justice Department went to the mat regarding whether to find the CIA in contempt even though all agreed that no material sanctions turned on the finding. The battle, as the judge put it ...
Shadowproof (blog)
February 22, 2017
He indicated the media is "likely to refer to a moment in her career when she drafted a cable instructing a field station to destroy videotapes of CIA interrogations of senior al Qaeda operatives." And added, "She did so at the request of her direct ...
RT
February 15, 2017
Acting as a deputy to former Counterterrorism Center chief Jose Rodriguez, Haspel reportedly wrote the notice ordering the videotapes of Abu Zubaydah's interrogation destroyed in 2005, according to NPR. The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Rahman andÃÂ ...
NPR
February 14, 2017
It has since been declassified. It calls on the CIA to preserve the videotapes of interrogations. "As a lawyer, as a trained lawyer, I know... it's not okay to destroy the evidence. And this was evidence. And it was deliberately destroyed," says Harman ...
Truth-Out
February 7, 2017
Trump reaffirmed his promise to lift the US ban on torture by appointing Gina Haspel as the new CIA deputy director. Haspel not only played a direct role in overseeing the torture of detainees at a black site in Thailand, she also participated in the ...
Phuket Gazette
February 4, 2017
BANGKOK: Amnesty International has called for the review of the appointment of Gina Haspel as deputy director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of her alleged torture links in Thailand. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Director of the ...
The Hill
February 4, 2017
As a clandestine officer, Gina Haspel oversaw the brutal interrogation of two terrorism suspects at a black site in Thailand - and then later played a role in the destruction of video tapes documenting the harsh treatment of the detainees, according ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 3, 2017
The Times also informs us that Gina Haspel, the new Deputy Director of the CIA, oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects in 2002 and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting brutal interrogations in Thailand while she was aÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON - As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations at a secret ...
Politico
February 3, 2017
... "New C.I.A. Deputy Director Had Leading Role in Torture of Detainees," by Matt Rosenberg: "As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 3, 2017
The Times also informs us that Gina Haspel, the new Deputy Director of the CIA, oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects in 2002 and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting brutal interrogations in Thailand while she was aÃÂ ...
Just Security
February 3, 2017
Haspel served as chief of staff to Bush-era CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez under whom al-Qaeda suspects were subjected to waterboarding and other forms of torture or inhumane treatment at CIA "black sites," an association which prevented ...
+972 Magazine
January 31, 2017
According to the videotape of Ahmadinejad's remarks, Ayatollah Amoli reminded the Iranian leader that the duties of officials of the Islamic Republic included, above all, "carrying out promises and restraining from fooling people [emphasis added ...
WEEI.com
January 29, 2017
Million dollars to destroy his son reputation how dare he say that the commissioner. Went on a witch ... By the CIA I was a Alaska this summer.
KRWG
January 25, 2017
With Smith's expertise, he could rewrite all the news articles (and, now, re-edit all the videotape) in which Trump attacked the Intelligence agencies (before he went to the CIA recently to tell them he loved them), mocked a physically handicapped ...
Spiked
January 20, 2017
The infamous dossier which alleged collusion between Russia and Trump, and the existence of a certain, urine-drenched video tape, is completely unsubstantiated, a collection of memos about things that ex-MI6 man Christopher Steele - collecting 'oppo ...
Salon
January 20, 2017
There is apparently some suspicion that this report may be destroyed in the same way those videotapes of CIA torture sessions were destroyed. ... Most people involved in this issue are fearful that Trump will destroy the report anyway but I have my doubts.
Hindustan Times
January 16, 2017
On January 15, John Brennan, the outgoing CIA director, termed Trump's comments equating the intelligence community with Nazi Germany as "outrageous" and mentioned that he didn't think Trump "has a full appreciation of Russian capabilities, Russian ...
CBC.ca
January 15, 2017
Obama initially dismissed the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a junior varsity team compared to al-Qaeda, but by 2015, ISIS had demonstrated its influence and savagery, which included videotaped beheadings of prisoners, some of whom were U.S ...
CBC.ca
January 15, 2017
Obama initially dismissed the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a junior varsity team compared to al-Qaeda, but by 2015, ISIS had demonstrated its influence and savagery, which included videotaped beheadings of prisoners, some of whom were U.S ...
Shadowproof (blog)
January 9, 2017
Although he sought to constrain what torture techniques the Central Intelligence Agency could employ, Obama preserved rendition after the agency's top lawyer John Rizzo, worried the executive orders would take the CIA out of the "rendition business ...
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