Torture Memos Released
‘Torture memos’ – that’s how the media is dubbing the documents describing the tactics used by CIA officers during the war on terror.
CIA operative retracts claims of Torture
Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate over torture in December 2007 when he…
BLACKWATER “sleuthing” in Germany
CIA Deploys a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month…