torture issues

What chance has a torturer got of being ratified as the head of the CIA? The latter from redacted court papers. Is someone who ran the CIA's secret "Black Site" in Thailand suitable to head the CIA?

The memo Bush tried to destroy The memo itself (warning: PDF), recently declassified. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Bush Administration was guilty of some very real crimes. I know there are those here who disagree. I don't know how accurate this story is or what the other side may...

Proposed text; "Physical coercion or threat thereof shall not be used by the United States nor its military forces nor their contractors nor any other third parties reporting to the United States in the questioning of prisoners regardless of their nation of citizenship and regardless of the...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/politics/09intel.html This NYTimes story (registration likely needed) suggests that in the run-up to the war, the Administration and Intelligence officials relied/counted on information that there was a link between AlQeda and Iraq. Indeed, Cheney continues to...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/18/turner.cheney/index.html

It has taken a good while, but the practice of ‘Renditions’ is finally getting some official acknowledgement. CIA Chief Defends Interrogation Procedure http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050318/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_prisoners_6 WASHINGTON – CIA Director Porter Goss...