Trump Urged to Withdraw Gina Haspel’s CIA Nomination

VIPS / Consortiumnews Mar 27, 2018 Two dozen former U.S. intelligence officers cite torture she oversaw while supervising a black site prison, and her role in destroying evidence. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

MSNBC Commentaries Are Too Reliant on CIA Spin

Mel Goodman / CounterPunch Mar 17, 2018 The news network prides itself for progressive reporting on national security issues but uses CIA apologists for commentary. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Military, CIA Leaders May Be Investigated for War Crimes

By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout Nov 20, 2017 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked for authorization to investigate U.S. practices in Afghanistan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Don’t Believe the Alarmist Propaganda About North Korea

Andrew Cockburn / Truthdig Aug 16, 2017 The U.S. national security establishment has inflated the threat of the North Korean nuclear program. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Force Reform in Saudi Arabia With a Thousand Cuts

John Kiriakou / Truthdig Jul 19, 2016 Despite new evidence of Saudi complicity revealed in the 9/11 report's "28 pages," the Saudis keep getting a free ride from the lemmings in Congress. Here's how to ratchet up pressure on the regime. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

CIA Empowered Its Director to Override Rules on Human Experimentation

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 15, 2015 A secret document published by The Guardian on Monday reveals that, despite having explicit guidelines against “human experimentation,” the Central Intelligence Agency empowered its director to rule on questions of medical ethics in its post-9/11 torture program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Pardiss Kebriaei and the Center for Constitutional Rights

BLANK Dec 22, 2014 The senior attorney at the celebrated civil liberties group is pushing for the prosecution of U.S. officials who tortured detainees and terrorism suspects—an issue the Senate's report on the subject was conspicuously silent about. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘Ex-Chief of C.I.A. Shapes Response to Detention Report’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 26, 2014 A tentatively titled and reported New York Times article glimpses former agency director George Tenet's efforts to suppress and discredit a report accusing "former C.I.A. officials of misleading Congress and the White House" about the agency's detention and interrogation program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Human Rights Watch: Prosecute the Bush War Criminals

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2011 A U.S.-based human rights group published a report Tuesday calling on foreign governments to prosecute George W. Bush and some of his chief officials in light of a growing body of evidence of war crimes. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bush Memos OK’d CIA Torture

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2008 Two recently disclosed memos from 2003 and 2004 show the Bush administration giving CIA torture techniques, most famously waterboarding, an explicit executive nod after worries arose in the intelligence community about the legality of the treatment of detainees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ron Suskind on Bush’s ‘Great Lies’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 Ron Suskind's new book alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaida. The CIA director at the time, George Tenet, calls the claim "ridiculous." Suskind says that's just an example of "George's memory issue." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ashcroft Defends Waterboarding at House Hearing

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2008 Discussing the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said he didn't think waterboarding constituted torture and that the technique produced "very valuable" reports. He was testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )