Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

Newsweek by Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff | Aug. 22, 2009 (Special Report)

Top Bush CIA officials, including Tenet's successors as CIA director, Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden, strongly lobbied for the IG report to be kept secret from the public. They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics, U.S., World
Topics: Law, CIA, Bush Administration, Torture
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Posted by: Posted by John Louden - Aug 21, 2009 - 4:20 PM PDT
Reviewed by: John Louden (review), Fat Chipman (review), Samuel W. Velsor IV (review), Ben Ross (review), Frank Looper (review)
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Edited by: Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug 22, 2009 - 6:24 PM PDT
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 by Ben Ross - Aug. 22, 2009

Advanced look at upcoming CIA report. Seems Newsweek does not want to talk to a lawyer about what the law is or the implications to a nation baised on the 'Rule of Law" Seems crimes are admitted and a cover-up was committed.

I am praying for these enablers......The promises of change and hope died when the current administration turned it's back on the rule of law ... More »

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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 22, 2009

Newsweek's use of "CI's" is commendable in their gaining vital news information.

I always believed that the Bush administration and specifically under the direction of the Vice President far exceeded legal grounds. I'm sure that ... More »

Interrogators also turned on a power drill and held it near him. “The purpose was to scare him into giving [information] up,” said one of the sources. A federal ... More »

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 by John Louden - Aug. 21, 2009

USA! USA! USA!

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