Tag: CIA

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2008-08-27 Some years ago, abuses were committed at Abu Ghraib prison -- conduct that was not authorized and that did violate the law. When those abuses came to light, Americans were rightly outraged. Those who violated the law were arrested, prosecuted and punished, as justice demanded.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 We expect all who serve America to conduct themselves with honor. And we enforce the rules.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 No nation in the world takes human rights more seriously than the United States. The policies of our country comply with our law, which prohibits torture.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 The CIA program involves tough customers and tough interrogations -- but it is entirely legal and proper. The procedures are designed to be safe in full compliance with this nation's laws and treaty obligations. They've been carefully reviewed by the Department of Justice. The program is run by highly trained professionals who understand their obligations under the law.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-07-20 in Britain, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said ministers should no longer take at face value statements from senior politicians, including George Bush, that America does not resort to torture in the light of the CIA admitting it used 'waterboarding'.

The report said there were 'serious implications' of the striking inconsistencies between British ministers continuing to believe the Bush administration when it denies using torture. 'The UK can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and we recommend that the government does not rely on such assurances in the future.'
'We also recommend that the government should immediately carry out an exhaustive analysis of current US interrogation techniques on the basis of such information as is publicly available or which can be supplied by the US.'
2008-02-07 "No, I am not, for this reason: Whatever was done as part of a CIA program at the time that it was done was the subject of a Department of Justice opinion through the Office of Legal Counsel and was found to be permissible under the law as it existed then."
-- Michael Mukasey, Attorney General, told lawmakers
2008-02-07 "In my own view, the view of my lawyers and the Department of Justice, it is not certain that that technique [= waterboarding] would be considered lawful under current statute".
-- Michael Hayden, CIA Director talking to House Intelligence Committee
2008-02-07 Strapping a person to a surface, covering their face with cloth and pouring water on their face to imitate the sensation of drowning could be used if "an unlawful combatant is possessing information that would help us prevent catastrophic loss of life of Americans or their allies"
-- Michael Hayden, CIA Director talking to House Intelligence Committee
2008-02-05 The waterboarding techniques were used in 2002 and 2003. They were limited to three top al-Qaeda suspects: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
-- According to Michael Hayden, CIA Director, talking to House Intelligence Committee
2007-12-11 The Justice Department and National Security Council reportedly approved waterboarding and other "alternative" interrogation techniques in June 2002.
"It was a policy decision that came down from the White House."
-- John Kiriakou, former CIA agent who participated in interrogations of terror suspects, in a CNN interview












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