Comey Reportedly ‘Willing to Testify, but Wants It to Be in Public’

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2017 Questions continue to swirl after FBI Director James Comey was unexpectedly fired by Donald Trump this week. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Spicer Shuts Down Questions on Trump Tweet During Friday Press Briefing

By Common Dreams staff / Common Dreams May 12, 2017 The White House press secretary demurs when asked if there are "recording devices in the Oval Office" and claims the president's "tapes" tweet about James Comey "speaks for itself." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Blago Tapes Played at Impeachment Trial

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2009 Previously unreleased audio recordings of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking gambling legislation and campaign contributions were played in all their ignominy during his impeachment trial Tuesday. There's a lot more going on here than a vacant Senate seat. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nixon Tapes Confirm Sour Personality

Staff / Truthdig Dec 3, 2008 The National Archives released another 200 hours of Richard Nixon's White House recordings on Tuesday, bringing the grand total of publicly available grousing, griping and racially insensitive grumbling to more than 2,200 hours. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ranking Republican: CIA Wanted Torture Tapes Preserved

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2008 Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., responding to closed testimony from the CIA's acting general counsel, John Rizzo, said it appeared that the officer who destroyed evidence of "enhanced" interrogations was acting against orders. Jose Rodriguez, the official in question, is asking for immunity before he tells his side of the story to Congress. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

9/11 Panel Leaders Accuse CIA, White House of Obstructing Inquiry

Staff / Truthdig Jan 3, 2008 On Wednesday, the same day that Attorney General Mukasey announced the launching of a federal probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, the chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, respectively, published an explosive Op-Ed piece in The New York Times slamming the CIA and the Bush administration for "stonewalling" their investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CIA Says It Gave Probers What They Asked For

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2007 Tapes? Oh, those tapes! CIA officials are justifying their failure to hand over videotapes of "severe interrogation" methods by saying they were not specifically asked for them. The officials were reacting to criticism by former 9/11 Commission members. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

White House Held Torture Tape Discussions

Staff / Truthdig Dec 19, 2007 A new report by The New York Times suggests that the White House was a lot closer to those secret CIA torture tapes than has been previously suggested "At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes," according to the Gray Lady. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Judge Orders Hearing Over CIA Tape Scandal

Staff / Truthdig Dec 19, 2007 U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, who in June 2005 ordered the Bush administration to protect "all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment and abuse of detainees" at Guantanamo Bay, has now ordered the administration to explain why it destroyed two videotapes of such treatment just five months later. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mukasey Stonewalls Congress in CIA Tape Inquiry

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2007 Newly installed Attorney General Michael Mukasey swiftly shot down requests by House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, as well as other members of Congress, for information about the Justice Department's investigation of the CIA tape destruction fiasco -- because the department would seem "subject to political influence." Oh. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Waterboarding Our Democracy

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 12, 2007 When the CIA destroyed those prisoner interrogation videotapes, was it also destroying the truth about 9/11? After all, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, the basic narrative of what happened on that day comes from the CIA's account of what those prisoners told their torturers. And what about those congressional leaders, including Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi, who were briefed on the torture program as early as 2002? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Congress Summons CIA Director

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2007 CIA Director General Michael Hayden has been summoned by Congress and will appear Tuesday and Wednesday before the Senate and House Intelligence committees to answer questions about the destruction of secret CIA videotapes that documented the abuse of detainees. The White House counsel, meanwhile, has ordered press secretary Dana Perino to keep quiet on the matter. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )