U.S. / Tags / Cia

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Strong defense of waterboarding One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA's Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A retired CIA agent has said a top al-Qaeda suspect was interrogated using a simulated drowning technique but that he believes it was justified. John Kiriakou told US broadcaster ABC that "water-boarding" was used when his CIA team questioned suspected.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Reuters -- The CIA worked with three American mobsters in a botched "gangster-type" attempt to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday. The CIA hauled the skeletons out of its closet by decla.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- Little-known documents now being made public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago: wiretappings of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more. The documents provide a glimpse of nearly 700 pages of mat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 8:04am neoform

Washington Post -- The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnappin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

USA Today -- The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it is suing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Co., claiming it provided secret CIA transportation services to shuttle three terrorism suspects overseas, where they were tortured. The cases.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Several dozen terrorism suspects believed to have been held at secret CIA prisons are still missing without trace, and the United States should reveal what has happened to them, a leading rights group said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Pre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 10:15am neoform

U.S. News -- A federal judge has ruled that a CIA agent identified only as "Doe," allegedly fired after he gathered prewar intelligence showing that Iraq was not developing weapons of mass destruction, can proceed with his lawsuit against the CIA. The judge has ordere.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 18, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

Ars Technica -- A new article from the New York Times reveals that it's not just the FBI—the agency traditionally tasked with domestic law enforcement—that has been accessing citizens' banking records in the name of the war on terror: both the military and the CIA.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 23, 2006 @ 9:44am mrmdc

BBC News -- New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 3:22pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- After years of denials, the CIA has formally acknowledged the existence of two classified documents governing aggressive interrogation and detention policies for terrorism suspects, according to the American Civil Liberties Union... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 2:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

MSNBC -- Cleansing’ the case Prosecutors and top administration officials essentially wanted to cleanse the information so that it could be used in court, a process that federal prosecutors typically follow in U.S. criminal cases with investigative problems o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 7, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

BBC News -- The CIA has confirmed that it destroyed at least two video tapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. According to the intelligence agency, the tapes were destroyed to protect the identity of CIA agents and because they no longer had intellige.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 2:10pm neoform

Washington Post -- Hundreds of pages of decades-old documents declassified and released by the CIA yesterday revealed a 1970s-era agency in the throes of unaccustomed self-examination, caught between its traditional secrecy and demands that it come clean on a history of uns.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

Washington Post -- Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- The CIA exploited NATO military agreements to help it run secret prisons in Poland and Romania where alleged terrorists were held in solitary confinement for months, shackled and subjected to other mental and physical torture, according to a European inve.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate detainees in its war on terror, European investigator Dick Marty said in a report released Friday. He also accused Germany and Italy of obstructing his probe into alleged.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Rolling Stone -- Once, when the old spymaster thought he was dying, his eldest son came to visit him at his home in Miami. The scourges recently had been constant and terrible: lupus, pneumonia, cancers of the jaw and prostate, gangrene, the amputation of his left leg. It.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 8:38am neoform

www.democracynow.org -- An undercover intelligence officer, who is suing the CIA, says his managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him when he refused. We speak with his attorney. [includes rush transcript] We turn now to.. Read More