Cia Secret Prisons

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.

Haspel is expected to face intense scrutiny from senators over her role in the agency's treatment of terrorism suspects at secret prisons overseas.

US President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order that could lead to the reinstatement of a CIA program to interrogate terrorist suspects in secret overseas "black site" prisons using techniques that have been condemned as torture, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

The CIA paid Romania "millions of dollars" to host secret prisons, a rights lawyer said Wednesday as the European Court of Human Rights heard accusations that Romania allowed the agency to torture terrorism suspects in a secret renditions program under President George W. Bush.

The United States is ignoring a request from Poland to hand over the full version of a Senate report that could shed light on allegations the CIA abused al Qaeda suspects at a secret prison in the north of the country, according to Polish prosecutors.

A military judge halted a hearing at Guantanamo after defendants accused of the September 11, 2001 attacks complained that the court interpreter had worked in the CIA's secret prisons.

Both congressional and intelligence officials confirmed that the CIA continues to dispute significant aspects of a draft of the report which the Senate committee approved a year ago.

In the early years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents.

Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: Would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?

The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded future president to safety in Pakistan, according to his brother and former associates.

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.

Haspel is expected to face intense scrutiny from senators over her role in the agency's treatment of terrorism suspects at secret prisons overseas.

US President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order that could lead to the reinstatement of a CIA program to interrogate terrorist suspects in secret overseas "black site" prisons using techniques that have been condemned as torture, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

The CIA paid Romania "millions of dollars" to host secret prisons, a rights lawyer said Wednesday as the European Court of Human Rights heard accusations that Romania allowed the agency to torture terrorism suspects in a secret renditions program under President George W. Bush.

The United States is ignoring a request from Poland to hand over the full version of a Senate report that could shed light on allegations the CIA abused al Qaeda suspects at a secret prison in the north of the country, according to Polish prosecutors.

A military judge halted a hearing at Guantanamo after defendants accused of the September 11, 2001 attacks complained that the court interpreter had worked in the CIA's secret prisons.

Both congressional and intelligence officials confirmed that the CIA continues to dispute significant aspects of a draft of the report which the Senate committee approved a year ago.

In the early years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents.

Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: Would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?

The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded future president to safety in Pakistan, according to his brother and former associates.