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President Bush and CIA Director Michael Hayden The CIA's secret history of psychological torture

Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
  • House Dems shoot down idea of Pelosi investigation

    Democrats kill Republican measure to investigate House Speaker's allegations about the CIA
  • Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering

    An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
  • A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture

    Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
  • The reluctant enablers of torture

    A Senate report shows that during the Bush administration's War on Terror, mental health professionals raised questions about harsh interrogations -- but helped design interrogation programs anyway.
  • New evidence of a secret torture prison

    It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby.
  • Our misguided fight against Somali pirates

    Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
  • Source: Cheney hasn't asked CIA to release memos

    A senior U.S. intelligence official tells Salon the former Vice President has not requested that the agency declassify memos about interrogation techniques.
  • Obama speaks to the CIA

    The president worked to reassure any staffers worried about what his release of the OLC torture memos means for them.
  • CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes

    An attorney for the government reveals that many more records than originally believed have been destroyed.
  • Panetta under fire already

    Both the incoming and outgoing chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee are criticizing Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA.
  • Obama taps Leon Panetta to head CIA

    The former White House chief of staff doesn't have intelligence experience, but after the Bush administration, the president-elect couldn't really tap an Agency insider.
  • Report: Torture started with Bush

    After a two-year investigation, the Senate names names -- Bush, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Rice.
  • Obama's plans for probing Bush torture

    President Bush could pardon officials involved in brutal interrogations -- but he may also face a sweeping investigation under the new president.
  • Is the U.S. putting mentally incompetent terror suspects on trial?

    At Guantánamo, bizarre proceedings with the 9/11 suspects raise questions about a prisoner's psychiatric evaluation and the murky role of the CIA.
  • New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right

    What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
  • Forging the missing case for war

    In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
  • The bizarre trial of bin Laden's bodyguard

    The "capture videos" the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA -- and even a surreal viewing of "The Dark Knight" here in Guantánamo.
  • When war goes corporate

    Grave threats to our national security may now include the mass privatization of U.S. intelligence and military operations.
  • Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power

    Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
  • Ashcroft suggests CIA sought legal approval after torture began

    The former attorney general raises the possibility that the CIA looked for legal cover only after at least one suspected member of al-Qaida was tortured.
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