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3 Oct 2007, 3:28 am
(A spokesman for the agency said, 'The C.I.A. does not, as a rule, publicly discuss the relative size of its operational components.')They're moving everybody to the Iran desk,' one recently retired C.I.A. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 9:32 pm
He later helped stampede Congress into passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which endorsed illegal C.I.A. prisons where detainees may be tortured and established kangaroo courts in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to keep detained foreigners in custody essentially for life. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 9:44 am
Padilla's fingerprints were on the document, which the C.I.A. recovered in Afghanistan in 2001. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 7:14 am
There is a reason why our clients' ordeals were so similar: The C.I.A.'s interrogation program is remarkable for its mechanistic aura. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 9:31 am
Rumsfeld, which found that all detainees—including those held by the C.I.A. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 4:11 am
Kudos to Jane Mayer for her article "The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program," just posted at the New Yorker's website.Mayer, author in 2005 of a definitive article on extraordinary rendition, "Outsourcing Torture," provides more detail in this article than a reader ought to have to stomach regarding the interrogation of so-called high-value detainees, post-September 11 captives believed to possess significant information… [read post]
5 Aug 2007, 5:11 am
The interrogation became a process not just of getting information but of utterly subordinating the detainee through humiliation.' The former C.I.A. officer confirmed that the agency frequently photographed the prisoners naked, 'because it's demoralizing. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 6:14 am
"Judge Backs C.I.A. in Suit on Memoir": Today in The New York Times, Adam Liptak has an article that begins, "Valerie Wilson may be the best known former intelligence operative in recent history, but a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the memoir she plans to publish this fall. [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 12:06 pm
"We were just plain asleep," said the former C.I.A. director Adm. [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 2:39 am
Evan Thomas writes in the NY Times: Tim Weiner's engrossing, comprehensive "Legacy of Ashes" is a litany of failure, from the C.I.A.'s early days, when hundreds of agents were dropped behind the Iron Curtain to be killed or doubled (almost without exception), [read post]
21 Jul 2007, 6:22 am
” It is unclear whether sleep deprivation, another technique used in past C.I.A. interrogations, is authorized. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 3:35 pm
The New York Times provides a news update headlined "C.I.A. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 5:35 pm
Goldsmith and Neal Katyal are correct that the current system of detaining terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay (or in secret C.I.A. prisons) without charges or trial has been a legal and political disaster. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 11:26 pm
Libby tried to peddle this story to would have said, “Look, outing C.I.A. agents is bad and we are not going to help you do it anonymously. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 2:50 pm
  Here are some highlights of recent events that you may not know about: Joel Huizenga, who started No Lie MRI, "has charged about a dozen clients approximately ten thousand dollars apiece for an examination"; In response to the ACLU's FOIA request about C.I.A. use of fMRI-based lie detection, "the C.I.A. would neither 'confirm nor deny' that it is investigating fMRI applications. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 1:38 pm
The New York Times has analysis and commentary: The C.I.A. monitoring of journalists in 1963, 1971 and 1972, including wiretapping their phones and setting up observation posts across the street from their offices to track their comings and goings and their visitors, was a practice that the White House itself employed during the Nixon administration. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 9:03 am
The Libby supporters never acknowledge the undisputed fact that their hero, a lawyer by profession, leaked classified information about a covert C.I.A. officer. [read post]