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• No charge for 'good faith' torture, memo says

  - 2008-07-25

  WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' would not cause "prolonged mental harm." That heavily censored memo, released Thursday,...

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• Journalist submits to waterboarding

  - 2008-07-02

  NEW YORK AFP — British-American writer Christopher Hitchens voluntarily submitted to waterboarding and concluded that the controversial interrogation technique used by the CIA is torture, he said in a magazine article published Wednesday. Hitchens said in the Vanity Fair article that he contacted members of the US special forces...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, torture

• Justice will investigate torture plan

  - 2008-04-18

  WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating whether agency lawyers improperly advised the military it could use harsh interrogation methods and concluded that President Bush's wartime authority could not be limited by domestic law or international bans on torture. The findings outlined in a March 2003 memo have...

  Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, torture, U.S., U.S. Department of Justice

• Source says torture OK'd from Cheney down

  - 2008-04-11

  WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a...

  Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S. Department of Justice, White House

• Cheney, other top officials signed off on interrogation tactics

  - 2008-04-11

  WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series...

  Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S. Department of Justice, White House

• U.S. editorial excerpts -5-

  - 2008-03-16

  NEW YORK, March 11 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: BUSH'S TORTURED VETO (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) ''We do not torture,'' President Bush insists, yet that assurance is accompanied by an unspoken ''but.'' In vetoing legislation,1,218858.story that would require CIA interrogators to...

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S.

• House override of Bush veto fails

  - 2008-03-12

  WASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. The vetoed legislation would have limited the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation methods...

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• House fails to override veto of anti-torture bill

  - 2008-03-12

  WASHINGTON AP -- House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. The vetoed legislation would have limited the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation methods...

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• Bush vetos waterboarding ban

  - 2008-03-09

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics...

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• Bush draws fire after veto of torture ban

  - 2008-03-09

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, president, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S.