Archive for 'Department of Justice'
NEWS: American lessons on torture
Justice official defends rough CIA interrogations
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post, February 17, 2008
The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were “quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening,” as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
In testimony before a […]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under CIA, Department of Justice, War on Terrorism, torture.
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NEWS, OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The atrophy of conscience
Anybody’s guess
By Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, February 8, 2008
It’s been a banner week for water-boarding. This centuries-old practice of simulated drowning to extract false confessions and false testimony has really benefited of late from a good old legal reassessment and a smoking-hot PR campaign. In the course of a few short years, water-boarding has morphed from […]
Posted: February 8th, 2008 under CIA, Cheney, Department of Justice, War on Terrorism, torture.
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INTERVIEW: Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds: ‘Buckle up, there’s much more coming.’
By Luke Ryland, Dissident Voice, January 29, 2008
In the last few weeks, London Times has run a series of articles about the so-called ‘Sibel Edmonds case’: (For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets,’ FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft‘ and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe‘)
Former FBI translator […]
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Bush Administration, FBI, Israel, Pakistan, State Department, Turkey, corruption, nuclear issues.
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NEWS & OPINION: The Bush administration’s dirty bomb
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
By Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria, The Sunday Times, January 27, 2008
Ainvestigation into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee has claimed.
The official is said to have tipped off a foreign contact about a bogus […]
Posted: January 27th, 2008 under Bush Administration, CIA, FBI, Israel, Pakistan, State Department, Turkey, nuclear issues.
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FEATURE: Sibel Edmonds’ claims demand investigation
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets
By Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative, January 28, 2008
Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2008 under Bush Administration, FBI, nuclear issues.
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