Torture Report
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Britain to seek access to parts of redacted CIA torture reportA U.K. parliamentary panel wants access to information not made public in a U.S. Senate report that may pertain to Britain's role in the interrogation and rendition of terror suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.WorldDec 14, 2014
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CIA chief challenges Senate torture report, admits ‘abhorrent’ tacticsThe CIA and several of its past leaders are stepping up a campaign to discredit a five-year Senate investigation into the CIA's harrowing interrogation practices after 9-11, concerned that the historical record may define them as torturers instead of patriots and expose them to legal action around the world.WorldDec 11, 2014
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Russia says CIA torture report reflects ‘systemic’ rights abuse in USRussia says the Senate's investigation into the CIA torture practices has highlighted rampant rights abuse.PoliticsDec 11, 2014
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How designing a CIA torture program earned 2 men millionsThe names James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen don't show up at all in the 500-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA torture program, but they're definitely mentioned throughout it, according to multiple reports.WorldDec 10, 2014
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UN expert wants U.S. officials who authorized torture to be prosecutedThe United Nations' top special investigator for counterterrorism is calling for the prosecution of senior U.S. officials who authorized and carried out torture as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policies.PoliticsDec 10, 2014
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Senate report: Harsh tactics didn’t net bin LadenAfter Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played a key role in what was one of the spy agency's greatest successes.WorldDec 10, 2014
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Obama confronts legacy of Bush-era policies with torture report’s releaseThe legacy of George W. Bush's national security policies has shadowed the man elected to change or end themPoliticsDec 10, 2014
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5 key findings from the Senate committee report on CIA interrogationsSenate investigators have delivered a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks, accusing the agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners with tactics that went well beyond legal limits.PoliticsDec 9, 2014
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How the CIA tortured its guinea pig detainee Abu ZubaydahAbu Zubaydah was the first high-profile al-Qaida terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the first to vanish into the spy agency's secret prisons.PoliticsDec 9, 2014
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