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CIA director nominee and acting CIA Director Gina Haspel is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill,

CIA Director Gina Haspel’s memos detailing torture declassified

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Haspel oversaw a CIA “black site” in Thailand in 2002.

A soldier walks past concertina wire surrounding the outside of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Delta at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.

Are the 9/11 trials at Guantanamo still about 9/11?

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein discusses the Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's anti-terrorism tactics on December 9, 2014.

Here are four key findings from the gruesome Senate report on torture

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A guard shuts the gate to the airport in Szymany, Poland, in 2005. Polish media said the airport was identified by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged CIA prisons used to interrogate al-Qaeda captives.

Poles say aiding the CIA’s torture program ‘was simply being a good ally’

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Guantanamo pre-trial hearings begin for alleged masterminds of 9/11 attacks

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Secret Vacuum Cleaner Design

Conflict & Justice

This week we learned something we didn’t know about Khalid Sheik Mohammed. When he was first held a decade ago in secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, his handlers allowed him to design a vacuum cleaner.

CIA’s Clandestine Chief Connected to Destruction of Torture Tapes

Global Politics

The acting head of the CIA’s prestigious clandestine service is connected to the controversial detention and “enhanced” interrogation policies adopted after 9/11.

Obama’s C.I.A Nominee John O. Brennan Has “Personal Objections” to Torture

In the aftermath of September 11th, the Central Intelligence Agency has come under a lot of scrutiny. From Saddam Hussein’s (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction, to the use of  waterboarding  and other forms of torture, to black sites and secret prisons, the war on terror has certainly tested the agency’s credibility.   At his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, […]

US Criticized in Europe on Torture and Rendition Cases

Global Politics

Two cases involving CIA torture and extraordinary rendition of terror suspects made the news Thursday. Anchor Marco Werman gets details from the BBC’s Dominic Casciani.

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How the CIA Rendition Program Was Carried Out

Global Politics

A lawsuit involving two American aviation companies is revealing details about how the CIA’s rendition program was carried out.