Ex-CIA agent alleges waterboarding took place before authorization memos
July 14, 2009
[JURIST] A former CIA counter-terrorism agent alleges that top al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was waterboarded [JURIST news archive] prior to the issuance of legal memos [JURIST report] justifying the practice, the BBC reported [text] Monday. John Kiriakou, who was....... [more] 
Obama affirms position that waterboarding is torture, defends banning technique
April 30, 2009
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] reaffirmed [press conference transcript] Wednesday his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to torture [JURIST news archives] and defended his decision to ban use of the technique [JURIST report]........ [more]
Ashcroft, Rice approved harsh interrogation methods: Senate committee report
April 23, 2009
[JURIST] The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] on Wednesday released a report [text] by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] indicating that former attorney general John Ashcroft and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2002 approved the use of wate....... [more]
US AG Holder reaffirms 'no waterboarding' policy
March 3, 2009
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] on Monday reaffirmed his opposition [speech text] to waterboarding [JURIST news archive] as an acceptable interrogation device. In a speech before the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Holder emphasized the need to return to the ideals of....... [more]
Holder condemns waterboarding as torture in AG confirmation hearings
January 15, 2009
[JURIST] US Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee in confirmation hearings Thursday that he believes waterboarding constitutes torture and that it could take a long time to close the Guantanamo Bay prison despite the....... [more]
White House memos to CIA approved waterboarding: Washington Post
October 15, 2008
'[JURIST] Two classified memos sent from the Bush administration to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 explicitly sanctioned the use of certain harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The documents were....... [more]
'Enhanced' interrogation techniques can be lawful: DOJ memos
July 25, 2008
'[JURIST] Three Department of Justice (DOJ) memos released Thursday indicate that certain enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, are lawful and that those who employ them in good faith lack the specific intent required to be charged....... [more]
Rice defends Bush administration approval of harsh interrogation tactics
May 23, 2008
'[JURIST] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday defended the Bush administration''s authorization of the use of harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, on suspected terrorist detainees. In her comments at the headquarters of the....... [more]
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