Wednesday, August 26, 2009

CIA News Updates -- August 26, 2009


Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day. White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels. A prisoner could be doused with 41-degree water but for only 20 minutes at a stretch.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation program operated under strict rules, and the rules were dictated from Washington with the painstaking, eye-glazing detail beloved by any bureaucracy.

The first news reports this week about hundreds of pages of newly released documents on the C.I.A. program focused on aberrations in the field: threats of execution by handgun or assault by power drill; a prisoner lifted off the ground by his arms, which were tied behind his back; another detainee repeatedly knocked out with pressure applied to the carotid artery.

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More News On The CIA

CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees
-- Reuters
CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee's Will -- Washington Post
U.S. at a loss on detainees' foreign protection -- Washington Times
CIA's police ploys nabbed terrorists -- Washington Times
CIA report: operatives given just two weeks' training -- The Telegraph
CIA interrogation memos provide fodder for both sides -- L.A. Times
Interrogation probe steams those on right and left -- AP
GOP, Democrats both find fault with CIA inquiry -- San Francisco Chronicle
Cheney Criticizes Obama Over CIA Probe -- Voice of America
Lithuania to probe CIA prison claims-president -- Reuters
Lithuania probe into 'CIA prison' -- BBC
CIA Abuse Investigator John Durham -- Time Magazine

COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

Liberals and the CIA -- Wall Street Journal opinion
A spy 'outing' game for real -- Washington Times
The Obama National Security Team's Civil War -- U.S. News And World Report opinon
Probe of CIA Imperils Interagency Trust -- Wall Street Journal
Obama administration couldn’t ignore evidence of torture -- AJC
CIA Torture Indictments? No Thanks. -- Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times opinion
A Spy 'Outing' Game for Real -- John Armor, Washington Times opinion
Inquest of CIA None Too Smart -- Peter Brookes, Boston Herald opinion
Obama Versus the CIA -- Marc Thiessen, Wall Street Journal opinion
A Sigh Of Relief At the CIA -- David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion
Probing the CIA -- L.A. Times editorial
The Torture Papers -- New York Times editorial
Obama vs. the CIA -- Washington Times editorial

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