Read more interrogation techniques stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/14179/interrogation-techniques.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:07:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69804/justice-department-narrows-inquiry-into-cia-tactics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEric Holder continues to take heavy flak from critics who think he should leave the CIA alone, and the Washington Post has news that should give them at least a bit of satisfaction: The Justice Department's preliminary investigation will be smaller than anticipated. The lead investigator will look at only...http://www.newser.com/story/69804/justice-department-narrows-inquiry-into-cia-tactics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 10:17:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69769/cia-chiefs-ask-obama-to-scrap-interrogation-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSeven former CIA directors—appointees of both political parties—are calling on the Obama administration to call off the Justice Department’s investigation of Bush-era interrogation practices, the Hill reports. The probe, ordered by AG Eric Holder, will reveal too much about the CIA’s methods in an environment where "success often...http://www.newser.com/story/69769/cia-chiefs-ask-obama-to-scrap-interrogation-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 15:05:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67615/obama-replaces-cia-with-special-interrogators.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama has ordered the creation of an elite squad that will take over terror interrogations from the CIA, senior officials tell the Washington Post. Dubbed the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, the unit will be housed with the FBI, but overseen by the White House through the National...http://www.newser.com/story/67615/obama-replaces-cia-with-special-interrogators.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 24 Aug 2009 9:06:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65651/holder-warns-of-homegrown-terror-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe chilling big picture suggests that “the radicalization of Americans” who leave the country and return wanting to do “harm to the American people” is a growing threat, Eric Holder tells ABC News. It’s “something that didn’t loom as large a few months ago as it does now," says the...http://www.newser.com/story/65651/holder-warns-of-homegrown-terror-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 9:28:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61970/gitmo-prisoners-we-lied-to-cia-to-stop-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGuantanamo prisoners fabricated information to give CIA interrogators after being physically and mentally abused, they told a 2007 military tribunal in transcripts released yesterday under the Freedom of Information act. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and one of the prisoners who was repeatedly waterboarded, said he...http://www.newser.com/story/61970/gitmo-prisoners-we-lied-to-cia-to-stop-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 1:44:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59265/steele-dodges-torture-question.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Steele has “a personal opinion” on whether the CIA’s interrogation techniques amounted to torture, but he refused to share it with David Gregory on Meet the Press today. “That’s not appropriate,” the RNC chairman said. But Steele did defend Dick Cheney and said Nancy Pelosi “stepped in it big...http://www.newser.com/story/59265/steele-dodges-torture-question.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 17 May 2009 11:13:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59042/pelosi-raises-stakes-in-torture-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhether by accident or design, Nancy Pelosi has turned the debate on the Bush administration's anti-terror program into a high-stakes game of brinksmanship, Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post . Pelosi's declaration yesterday that the CIA lied to Congress amounts to "a declaration of war," Balz writes, setting the stage...http://www.newser.com/story/59042/pelosi-raises-stakes-in-torture-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 5:59:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59009/pelosis-cia-charges-hardly-jibe-with-obama-talk-points.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA lied to Congress about waterboarding will likely have broad political consequences, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Post . In the short term, Pelosi has stolen President Obama’s thunder on credit-card reform and could force the early announcement of a Supreme Court nominee as a...http://www.newser.com/story/59009/pelosis-cia-charges-hardly-jibe-with-obama-talk-points.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 14 May 2009 14:44:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59013/cia-denies-cheney-request-for-torture-docs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe CIA today denied Dick Cheney’s request that documents possibly proving the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques be declassified, MSNBC reports. An executive order “excludes from review information that is the subject of pending litigation,” the CIA said. The two documents “contain information that falls into that category.” The order...http://www.newser.com/story/59013/cia-denies-cheney-request-for-torture-docs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 14 May 2009 14:04:09 CDT