BLANKSep 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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 16, 2016
The Guardian released the second and third installments of its inside chronicle of the struggle between the CIA and the Senate over the 2014 report on torture from the Select Committee on Intelligence. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 9, 2016
In a long exposé, The Guardian tells the first chapter of its “inside story of the Senate investigation into torture and the crisis with the CIA it spurred." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Donald Kaufman / TruthdigDec 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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 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. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BLANKDec 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 )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 21, 2014
The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and Peter Maass have revealed the identity of a "key apologist" for the CIA's torture program, an official whom multiple news outlets have described as responsible for "a long string of significant errors and malfeasance" that put her "competence and integrity" in doubt, even by some within the agency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatchDec 15, 2014
Mainstream coverage of US torture in general and of the new Senate report in particular rests on three false assumptions: 1 The most important question is whether torture “worked” 2 U torture ended when George W Bush left office 3 The only kind of torture that really “counts” happens in foreign war zones Let’s look at each of these in order. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
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