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Senate torture report shows CIA misled public
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December 12, 2014
Ron Wyden's point-by-point smackdown of the CIA's defense of torture
A pretty thorough demolition of an op-ed by former CIA directors defending the Agency's torture regime tell us a lot about the Senate torture report's value.
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December 11, 2014
Obama’s CIA chief won’t rule out torture in the future
CIA director John Brennan left open the possibility that the CIA could return to torturing people in the future, if they were given permission.
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December 11, 2014
Feinstein live-tweeted a devastating takedown of the CIA director's defense of torture
CIA director John Brennan made terrible excuses for torture during a December 11 press conference. The lead force behind the Senate report is tearing them apart on Twitter in real time.
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December 11, 2014
Torture is a culture. Releasing the Senate report is a way of fighting it.
Here's why releasing the Senate torture report is a big win — even if there are no prosecutions.
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December 11, 2014
Torture is illegal. Americans tortured. Why isn't anyone being prosecuted?
The types of possible prosecutions, and why they aren't happening.
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December 9, 2014
How the CIA misled the public on its torture program, in one chart
The CIA underreported the extent of its program.
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December 9, 2014
Map: The CIA's global network of secret torture centers
It wasn't just Guantanamo Bay.
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December 9, 2014
It doesn’t matter if torture worked. It’s still wrong.
Why there is no place for torture in a free society.
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December 9, 2014
The Senate report proves once and for all that torture didn't lead us to Osama bin Laden
The Senate Intelligence torture report blows the theory that torture caught bin Laden out of the water.
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December 9, 2014
Map: The 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition program
The agency's torture program was even bigger than the Senate report suggests.
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December 9, 2014
The CIA mistakenly tortured its own informants
The informants were trying to provide intelligence before they were detained.
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December 9, 2014
This stunning fact from the torture report shows how badly the CIA failed
Torture resulted in fabricated information that was used to detain more people.
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December 9, 2014
Even President Bush showed "discomfort" when he saw CIA torture in action
The former president approved and defended the policies anyway.
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December 9, 2014
The disastrous flaw at the heart of the CIA's torture program
The CIA torture program was designed from the beginning to fail.
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December 9, 2014
16 absolutely outrageous abuses detailed in the CIA torture report
Interrogators waterboarded one detainee at least 183 times.
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December 9, 2014
This is the single most damning sentence about the CIA's torture policy
An absolutely devastating detail from the new Senate report on torture.
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December 9, 2014
The CIA torture report, summed up in four brutal sentences
Thousands of pages and years of investigation all boil down into four lines.
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December 9, 2014
The huge new Senate report on CIA torture, explained
The report looks at what the CIA did during the Bush administration — and what the results were.
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December 9, 2014
READ: The just-released Senate report investigating CIA torture
The report's executive summary is embedded here.
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December 8, 2014
The US used to torture people. We're about to learn just how bad it got.
Plus, updates on Congress's spending bill drama and the botched special forces raid in Yemen.