CIA Nominee Reportedly Offered to Withdraw
May 6, 2018 Gina Haspel—facing a firestorm over her role in torture—later was reassured by White House aides, two administration officials say. Her confirmation hearing opens Wednesday.
We Should Not Reward the Authors of Torture
Mar 24, 2018 Violations of U.S. and international law cannot be rationalized or ignored in considering Gina Haspel's nomination to be the new CIA director.Trump’s CIA Pick Oversaw Waterboarding at Secret Prison
Mar 13, 2018 Gina Haspel, a career spymaster, had a front-row seat to the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects between 2003 and 2005.
Truthdigger of the Week: Daniel Jones, the Senate’s Chief Investigator Into Torture by the CIA
Sep 18, 2016 Jones—who became a target of the CIA because he searched for the truth—this week spoke out for the first time. He has been a key force in the disclosure of a scandal that one senator compared to Watergate.
American War Crimes: Candidates Compete to Promise the Most Torture and Slaughter
Jan 7, 2016 There’s nothing like the heady combination of a “populist” Republican race for the presidency and a national hysteria over terrorism to make Americans want to reach for those “enhanced interrogation techniques.”VIDEO: John Oliver: ‘Torture Is Medieval, Brutal and Beneath Us,’ So Let’s Make It Illegal
Jun 15, 2015 In anticipation of this week's vote on a proposed law against torture, drafted by Sens. John McCain and Dianne Feinstein, HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host gave an impassioned monologue on the Senate Committee Report on Torture.
Truthdiggers of the Week: Critics of the American Psychological Association Role in Torture Program
May 3, 2015 Health care professionals and human rights experts have blown the whistle on the American Psychological Association for providing the US with ethical and legal cover for torture of terrorism suspects .
Experts Allege the American Psychological Association Secretly Collaborated With Bush on Torture
Apr 30, 2015 A group of dissident psychologists say the professional academic organization provided legal and ethical cover to George W. Bush’s torture regime in the post-Sept. 11 war on terror.
The American Public Gets Distracted From Torture
Dec 28, 2014 News this holiday season of the hacking of Sony studios and new U.S. relations with Cuba "flushed" the bad news of the Senate's torture report from the public mind, Robert Hennelly writes at Salon.
Did the CIA Torture So Bush Could Invade Iraq? (Video)
Dec 23, 2014 The Bush administration and the CIA tortured al-Qaida suspects because they wanted evidence that linked Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and could be used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn writes at The Independent.The Bush administration and the CIA tortured al-Qaida suspects because they wanted evidence that linked Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and could be used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, says Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn.
