
CIA Made Doctors Torture Suspected Terrorists After 9/11, Taskforce Finds
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Sarah BoseleyDoctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes
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Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes
Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes
The CIA’s office of medical services played a critical role in advising the justice dept that “enhanced interrogation” methods, such as extended sleep deprivation and waterboarding, which are recognized as forms of torture, were medically acceptable.
The first reports in early May of 1960 were that a U.S. weather plane, flying out of Turkey, had gone missing.
Former Director of the CIA and head of the National Security Agency Michael Hayden had his cover blown today on the Acela train by Tom Matzzie, a political strategist who used to run the D.C. branch of MoveOn.org, according to Dylan Matthews at The
Absent greater transparency, Americans should assume the worst
Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of MoveOn.org sat near retired Gen. Michael Hayden. Matzzie's tweets suggest Hayden took calls from reporters digging into the ongoing NSA spy scandal and CIA secret prisons overseas.
Blackwater and other trigger-happy “contractors” or “mercenaries” that worked or still work for the CIA and the U.S. government were and are simply government armed forces. The organization chart looks different than the U.S. Army, because
“Somebody was leaking to the Taliban. They knew. Somebody tipped them off. There were guys in a tower. Guys on the bush line. They were sitting there, waiting. And they sent our guys right into the middle.”
The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly monitored tens of millions of phone calls in France and hacked into former Mexican President Felipe Calderon's email account.
As he was dying from lung cancer, the legendary Machiavellian CIA head of Counterintelligence, James Jesus Angelton, provided author Joseph J. Trento this startling candid confession: You know how I got to be in charge of counterintelligence?
“Court historians” are the intellectual bodyguards of the State. They shape and defend the “official line” or interpretation on the State’s wars, its presidential regimes, or key historical events such as the Kennedy assassinations. As a result
It was an innocuous e-mail, one of millions sent every day by spouses with updates on the situation at home.
I just finished reading one of the best and most important books I’ve ever read. It’s The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret War by Stephen Kinzer. The book is fascinating and gripping. (Jacob Hornberger)
The classified documents that Snowden had downloaded from the National Security Agency were stored on smaller devices, such as hard drives and thumb drives, and have not been turned over to the Russian or Chinese, said Ray McGovern
If a terrorist was sent directly to court, the government might never know what intelligence he had. With the black sites closed and Obama refusing to send more people to Guantanamo, it wasn't obvious where to hold people for interrogation.
Islamist commanders in the southern Somali port of Barawe said commandos -- presumed to be from a Western nation -- rappelled from a helicopter as they tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shebab commander.
"The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but we're working on a project that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program,"
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has launched an ambitious new project aiming to identify as many as possible of those killed by CIA drones in Pakistan.
Somalia's Shebab insurgents warned Tuesday they would follow the ongoing siege in Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall with further attacks if Kenyan troops did not pull out of Somalia immediately. "If not, know that this is just a taste of what we wi
What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
A CIA employee who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement barring him from discussing the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, has been suspended as a result and forced to hire legal counsel, according to a top House lawmaker.
Asked whether the United States's promiscuous surveillance was setting a harmful example for other nations, Hayden suggested that the Internet's origins in the United States partially justifies the NSA's conduct.
The U.S. is already fully engaged in a massive war against the Syrian government, in complete violation of the UN Charter and treaties the US signed.
The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the
Following is the text of a handwritten letter from Amir Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent who has been incarcerated in Iran for more than two years on espionage charges, addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry.
In the same week, the CIA admitted after 60 years that it engineered a coup d'état against the elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. This secret US and British action changed the course of history, planting the seeds for many
Obama’s allies in Syria — those who will directly benefit from the coming US airstrikes — stepped up their genocide against Syrian Christians, attacking Maaloula, a Christian village, indiscriminately using mortar shells fired from a hilltop
American military action could inadvertently strengthen Islamic extremists and criminals. Abdul Samad Issa, 37, the rebel commander leading his fighters through the executions of the captured soldiers, illustrates that very risk.
The first cell of Syrian rebels trained and armed by the CIA is making its way to the battlefield, President Barack Obama has reportedly told senators.