Surprise! More Suppressed Torture Tapes
Did Susan Crawford admit the government had tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani because she knew there were tapes that might come out?
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Why Can’t CIA Handle the Same Level of Oversight the Military Gets?
/in Torture/by emptywheelCongress has managed to review all aspects of torture used in the military, with no untoward outcome. Yet CIA insists if the same happens for the torture used in the CIA, the sky will fall.
Rummy: It’s Jim Haynes’ Fault
/in Torture/by emptywheelRummy is basically blaming Jim Haynes for trashing the Constitution.
Cheney Lies, Obstruction Of Justice & Torture Tape Destruction
/130 Comments/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Intelligence, Law, Torture Tape/by emptywheelMarcy noted earlier the article in today’s Washington Post by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick detailing the story surrounding abu-Zubaydah’s capture and torture. I want to pick up where Marcy left off; i.e. the evidence that nothing was obtained from abu-Zubaydah’s torture is the reason the torture tapes destroyed.
John Yoo’s Wrestling Match with the First Amendment
/92 Comments/in Unitary Executive/by emptywheelRead with the close attention with which John Yoo refuses to read our Constitution, Yoo’s latest attempt at self-defense is even more pathetic.
The WSJ's Curious Picture of Congress and Torture
/in Torture/by emptywheelThe WSJ is warning Congressional Democrats not to investigate Bush’s torture policies. But there are holes in its case.
We Have Met The WMD Terrorists, And They Are US
/in emptywheel, Intelligence, Law, Terrorism/by bmazThe Bush Administration leaned on the Swiss government to destroy crucial evidence in a broad investigation into the nuclear proliferation network of AQ Khan because the information would implicate the CIA and US Government in a web of entangled activities. As a result, innumerable criminal investigations have been compromised, if not destroyed altogether. And Khan and the others walk free.
The Strange Case of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul (Part 1)
/in Bush Administration, Intelligence, Terrorism, War/by WilliamOckhamIn June 2004, Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul had his 15 minutes of fame when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answered questions at a press conference about the detainee known to American soldiers only as Triple X, the first ghost detainee transferred from CIA custody to the U.S. military. Rashul was suspected of being a member of Ansar al-Islam, a violent Kurdish Sunni Islamist movement opposed to the dominant Kurdish groups of northeastern Iraq. The real story of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul wasn’t his terrorist past or his time as a ghost detainee of the DOD, but his treatment by the CIA in between.
Who First Spread the Iraqi Anthrax Claim?
/in Terrorism/by emptywheelThe likely sources for the earliest stories claiming Iraq had a role in the anthrax attack are pretty telling.
The Missing Emails and the OVP Coverup
/47 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelBoth the defense and prosecution introduced a bunch of articles referencing the Plame leak–and particularly OVP’s role in it–between September 27, 2003 to October 12, 2003. But some are missing–most importantly, a bunch that came out while Libby was in Jackson and Cathie Martin was apparently in DC making statements claiming Libby wasn’t involved.