Washington’s Blog | 9 Dec 2014 U.S. Used C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T Techniques Specially Designed to Produced F-A-L-S-E Confessions It has long been known by interrogation experts that torture creates false confessions. For example: The C.I.A.’s 1963 interrogation manual stated: Intense pain is quite likely to produce false confessions, concocted as a means of escaping from distress. A…
Jason Leopold | Vice | 9 Dec 2014 Today the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the long-awaited 500-page executive summary from its $40 million report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program, which senators have said documents the brutal techniques used against 119 high-level al Qaeda suspects. The summary, which includes summaries of only 20 CIA captives, includes…
Dan Froomkin | The Intercept | 5 Dec 2014 After seven months of promising to release a report exposing CIA torture of terror suspects, the Obama administration Friday reportedly sent Secretary of State John Kerry to ask Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein to consider holding off “because a lot is going on in the…
Press TV | 7 Dec 2014 A Senate report on the CIA’s torture program is “by no means the full truth,” yet it details part of the US torture history that is “obviously too embarrassing,” says Scott Rickard, former American intelligence linguist. “This is only the tip of the iceberg… This report goes into minute…
Sabrina Siddiqui | Huffington Post | 21 Nov 2014 WASHINGTON — Before White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came to brief Senate Democrats on Thursday afternoon, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had a little pep talk with his flock. Every Tuesday, during the weekly caucus lunches, he said, you all gripe and moan about…
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept | 30 Oct 2014 Months after President Obama frankly admitted that the United States had “tortured some folks” as part of the War on Terror, a new report submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture has been released that excoriates his administration for shielding the officials responsible from prosecution. The…