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US Supreme Court Opts To Leave CIA 'Torture Report' Secret
The US Supreme Court on Monday turned back an appeal by rights groups seeking to make public a damning report on the CIA's post-September 11 torture program, ensuring it will remain secret.
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After Hacking Controversy, CIA Watchdog Resigns
The CIA's Inspector General will resign this month but US officials said on Monday his departure is not related to his finding last year that the spy agency hacked into computers used by Senate aides.
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US Senator Proposes Ban on CIA Holding Detainees
The lawmaker behind the explosive US Senate report on enhanced interrogation techniques presented several torture prevention proposals on Monday to US President Barack Obama including a ban on the CIA holding detainees.
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Half of America Believe CIA Interrogation Methods Justified: Poll
About half of Americans believe that the CIA was justified in its harsh interrogation methods of "war on terror" detainees, a poll found Monday, days after a damning US report revealed harrowing details of torture.
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Guantanamo Hearings for 9/11 Plotters Postponed
The first open pre-trial hearings with accused 9/11 plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh since the release of a damning Senate report on CIA torture have been postponed until February, officials said.
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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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CIA Revelations Put UK Spies Under Scrutiny
British spy agencies are under growing pressure to reveal how closely they worked with their US counterparts following 9/11 after a damning US Senate report exposed how the CIA tortured terror suspects.
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Publisher to Release CIA Torture Report in Book Form
An independent publisher in New York is releasing the US Senate report on the CIA and torture as a 480-page book, saying it needs to be seen by as many readers as possible.
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CIA Chief Admits Agency Used 'Abhorrent' Methods on Detainees
CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" whether so-called enhanced interrogation techniques yielded useful intelligence.
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CIA Fights Back After Torture Report
Top spies past and present campaigned on Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's harrowing torture practices after 9/11.
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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 Revealed 'Inexcusable Crimes': Edward Snowden
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Wednesday that the United States had committed "inexcusable crimes" during its torture programme detailed by a US Senate report.
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China Urges US to 'Correct Ways' After Torture Report
China urged the United States on Wednesday to "correct its ways", after the US Senate said in a report the CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees and acted more brutally and pervasively than it acknowledged.
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Some of CIA's Harsh Methods Were 'Brutal': Barack Obama
President Barack Obama says some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations were "brutal."
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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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US Supreme Court Opts To Leave CIA 'Torture Report' Secret
The US Supreme Court on Monday turned back an appeal by rights groups seeking to make public a damning report on the CIA's post-September 11 torture program, ensuring it will remain secret.
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After Hacking Controversy, CIA Watchdog Resigns
The CIA's Inspector General will resign this month but US officials said on Monday his departure is not related to his finding last year that the spy agency hacked into computers used by Senate aides.
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US Senator Proposes Ban on CIA Holding Detainees
The lawmaker behind the explosive US Senate report on enhanced interrogation techniques presented several torture prevention proposals on Monday to US President Barack Obama including a ban on the CIA holding detainees.
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Half of America Believe CIA Interrogation Methods Justified: Poll
About half of Americans believe that the CIA was justified in its harsh interrogation methods of "war on terror" detainees, a poll found Monday, days after a damning US report revealed harrowing details of torture.
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Guantanamo Hearings for 9/11 Plotters Postponed
The first open pre-trial hearings with accused 9/11 plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh since the release of a damning Senate report on CIA torture have been postponed until February, officials said.
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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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CIA Revelations Put UK Spies Under Scrutiny
British spy agencies are under growing pressure to reveal how closely they worked with their US counterparts following 9/11 after a damning US Senate report exposed how the CIA tortured terror suspects.
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Publisher to Release CIA Torture Report in Book Form
An independent publisher in New York is releasing the US Senate report on the CIA and torture as a 480-page book, saying it needs to be seen by as many readers as possible.
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CIA Chief Admits Agency Used 'Abhorrent' Methods on Detainees
CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" whether so-called enhanced interrogation techniques yielded useful intelligence.
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CIA Fights Back After Torture Report
Top spies past and present campaigned on Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's harrowing torture practices after 9/11.
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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 Revealed 'Inexcusable Crimes': Edward Snowden
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Wednesday that the United States had committed "inexcusable crimes" during its torture programme detailed by a US Senate report.
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China Urges US to 'Correct Ways' After Torture Report
China urged the United States on Wednesday to "correct its ways", after the US Senate said in a report the CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees and acted more brutally and pervasively than it acknowledged.
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Some of CIA's Harsh Methods Were 'Brutal': Barack Obama
President Barack Obama says some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations were "brutal."
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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.
