CIA
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MPs investigate whether redactions were sought on national security grounds or to avoid embarrassment
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Prosecutors intend to question reporter James Risen but he will not be asked to reveal source
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Physicians for Human Rights called for federal investigation on CIA torture program participation, calling rectal feeding technique ‘form of sexual assault’
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Pyongyang says ‘so-called human rights issue’ is politically motivated and security council should look to CIA instead
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Home Secretary Theresa May makes clear to MPs on Monday that she did not ask CIA officials to block out parts of the recently released report on torture methods
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Editorial: Parliament must act fast to follow up the Senate report and shine a light on any UK complicity
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Home secretary tells Commons she was not involved in any talks on British intelligence actions contained in Senate report
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Lawyers for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects wanted judge to determine the extent of FBI contact with defense team members
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Former US vice-president robustly defends CIA interrogation methods as Republicans and intelligence community attack Senate report
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Trevor Timm: Torture architects have been allowed to explain away rape and detention of innocent people. If we can’t lock him up instead, shouldn’t we at least be able to hold the next Dick Cheney accountable?
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Paul Mason: It’s time to confront the brutal physical reality and the gruesome official justification of state-sanctioned torture
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Letters: Malcolm Rifkind, who chairs the ISC, cannot by any figment of the imagination be deemed independent
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Leo Benedictus: Joanne MacInnes spends most days inflating and deflating a giant, blow-up Guantánamo Bay detainee. Why? To free UK resident Shaker Aamer from the US detention camp
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Ioan Talpes, who led SIE agency, says Bucharest cooperated but ‘took no interest’ in sites as country was trying to join Nato
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Intelligence committee chief Sir Malcolm Rifkind says he will ask US for missing passages revealing any UK involvement in torture and rendition
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Malcolm Rifkind to demand unredacted report on Britain’s role in CIA’s abduction and torture programme
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Chris Riddell on the US report into "enhanced interrogation"
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Nussaibah Younis: The US can’t preach against torture when it allows abuse to take place in its own agencies
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Henry Porter: This is a cross-party conspiracy to hide the truth about British agents and torture
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CIA torture report: the week America confronted its dark secrets
Diane OrentlicherDiane Orentlicher: The damning truth: we Americans breached the core values of humanity
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There have long been questions on the role of the British territory in the rendition of US terror suspects. But not even the Senate’s damning report on CIA black sites has answered them
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The architects of CIA torture sought to make individuals powerless to disobey by breaking down their self-control. Restoring it can be a lifetime’s work
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Ex-attorney general’s call follows Lord West’s claim that further UK investigation into torture would be a ‘waste of time’
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Wolfgang Kaleck, who represents NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, says ‘They need to know that they’ll run into severe trouble’ if they enter Europe
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Once the hallmark of the villain, torture became a hero’s tool 40 years ago – and since then it’s been a frequent ingredient in popular entertainment
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British agents may have been aware of the 'odd case' of torture by CIA officers and may even have been present while waterboarding was happening
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Some former CIA directors and advisers call Senate investigation biased while others say interrogations yielded important information
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Jonathan Freedland: The torture report lays bare what happens when our deepest, darkest urges prevail. The state has to rise above it
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Senate report on rendition contrasts with recalcitrant UK, whose judge-led inquiry was shut down by Cameron
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Hugh Muir: Despite fierce opposition, the chair of the Senate intelligence committee fought to reveal what was done in the name of US democracy post-9/11
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Labour’s Lord West says UK agents may have been present while waterboarding was happening – but there is no need for new inquiry
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Ali Soufan: The Senate report exposed an orchestrated campaign of deception and lies while I was an FBI agent. But here’s the worst part: the lies haven’t stopped
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Representatives including Theresa May held 24 meetings with US officials writing CIA report in which UK references were redacted
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Anne Perkins: We in Britain must demand to know what lies beneath the black, redacted boxes in the Senate report on the CIA – or accept complicity with our own secret state
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Topics
- Torture
- CIA torture report
- UK security and counter-terrorism
- MI5
- MI6
- Rendition
- Human rights
- US constitution and civil liberties
- Guantánamo Bay
- US national security
- Theresa May
- US foreign policy
- Espionage
- George Bush
- Counter-terrorism policy
- US television
- US Senate
- Foreign policy
- Homeland
- Dick Cheney
The CIA tortured Abu Zubaydah, my client. Now charge him or let him go