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CIA Sought "Truth Serum" To Force September 11 Attack Suspects To Talk
CIA interrogators sought a truth serum to use on Al-Qaeda prisoners in addition to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to formerly top secret documents released Tuesday.
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CIA Nominee Gina Haspel Faces Grilling Over Torture Record
Facing tough opposition over her own record, CIA director nominee Gina Haspel will pledge Wednesday to never revive the interrogation program that saw Al-Qaeda detainees tortured.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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US Group Says George Bush Should Be Investigated for Torture Conspiracy
Former president George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Amnesty Calls on European Countries to Admit CIA Cooperation
Rights group Amnesty International urged European countries today to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice.
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CIA Interrogators Heroes Not Torturers: Dick Cheney
Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes.
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Did Torture Really Help US Find Al Qaeda Chief Hambali?
Hailed as a major success in the US "war on terror," the capture of Indonesian cleric Hambali if often touted by the US intelligence community as evidence that harsh interrogation produces results.
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CIA Torture Report 'Positive Step' Says European Union
The European Union on Wednesday said a US Senate report exposing brutal yet ineffective CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects was a "positive step" in recognising the programme's failings.
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CIA Report Must Lead to Prosecutions: Rights Group
British-based advocacy group CAGE has demanded criminal proceedings following the release of a US Senate report that found CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged.
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Chilling Methods Used in CIA Torture Sessions
Sleep deprivation for over a week, beatings, shackling, and waterboarding - a grim litany of the cruel methods used by the Bush-era CIA to interrogate Al-Qaeda terror suspects was exposed on Tuesday.
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'Torture Always Wrong', Says David Cameron After Report on CIA Acts
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday joined international consternation over the US Senate report describing CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects as far more brutal and ineffective than previously believed.
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CIA Torture Brutal and Ineffective: US Senate Report
The CIA's interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged and did not produce useful intelligence, a damning and long-delayed US Senate report said Tuesday.
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CIA Chief John Brennan Insists Torture Did Thwart Attacks
The director of the CIA insisted Tuesday that US agents' use of brutal interrogation techniques against Al-Qaeda suspects helped prevent attacks, in the wake of a critical Senate report.
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Some in 'Torture' Report Denied Chance to Read it
About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decade-old agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would be able to review parts of the document in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement.
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CIA's 'harsh interrogations' exceeded legal authority: report
A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say amount to torture was based on faulty legal reasoning, McClatchy news service reported on Thursday.
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CIA Sought "Truth Serum" To Force September 11 Attack Suspects To Talk
CIA interrogators sought a truth serum to use on Al-Qaeda prisoners in addition to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to formerly top secret documents released Tuesday.
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CIA Nominee Gina Haspel Faces Grilling Over Torture Record
Facing tough opposition over her own record, CIA director nominee Gina Haspel will pledge Wednesday to never revive the interrogation program that saw Al-Qaeda detainees tortured.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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US Group Says George Bush Should Be Investigated for Torture Conspiracy
Former president George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Amnesty Calls on European Countries to Admit CIA Cooperation
Rights group Amnesty International urged European countries today to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice.
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CIA Interrogators Heroes Not Torturers: Dick Cheney
Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes.
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Did Torture Really Help US Find Al Qaeda Chief Hambali?
Hailed as a major success in the US "war on terror," the capture of Indonesian cleric Hambali if often touted by the US intelligence community as evidence that harsh interrogation produces results.
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CIA Torture Report 'Positive Step' Says European Union
The European Union on Wednesday said a US Senate report exposing brutal yet ineffective CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects was a "positive step" in recognising the programme's failings.
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CIA Report Must Lead to Prosecutions: Rights Group
British-based advocacy group CAGE has demanded criminal proceedings following the release of a US Senate report that found CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged.
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Chilling Methods Used in CIA Torture Sessions
Sleep deprivation for over a week, beatings, shackling, and waterboarding - a grim litany of the cruel methods used by the Bush-era CIA to interrogate Al-Qaeda terror suspects was exposed on Tuesday.
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'Torture Always Wrong', Says David Cameron After Report on CIA Acts
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday joined international consternation over the US Senate report describing CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspects as far more brutal and ineffective than previously believed.
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CIA Torture Brutal and Ineffective: US Senate Report
The CIA's interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged and did not produce useful intelligence, a damning and long-delayed US Senate report said Tuesday.
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CIA Chief John Brennan Insists Torture Did Thwart Attacks
The director of the CIA insisted Tuesday that US agents' use of brutal interrogation techniques against Al-Qaeda suspects helped prevent attacks, in the wake of a critical Senate report.
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Some in 'Torture' Report Denied Chance to Read it
About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decade-old agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would be able to review parts of the document in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement.
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CIA's 'harsh interrogations' exceeded legal authority: report
A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA's legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say amount to torture was based on faulty legal reasoning, McClatchy news service reported on Thursday.
