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In 1983, Caballero attended a CIA "human resources exploitation or interrogation course," according to declassified testimony by Richard Stolz, who was the deputy director for operations at the time, before the June 1988 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The manual advises an interrogator to "manipulate the subject's environment, to ...
On March 8, 2008 president George W. Bush vetoed a bill, supported by Democrats and opposed by John McCain, which would have restricted the CIA to the techniques in the manual. [ 7 ] Disputes during the manual's preparation included whether a section on interrogation techniques would remain classified, [ 4 ] and whether the Geneva conventions ...
At the time, President Barack Obama, who ended the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, said, “One of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our ...
The U.S. Senate Report on CIA Detention Interrogation Program that details the use of torture during CIA detention and interrogation. The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program [1] is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and ...
Various revisions of the extended techniques were issued. [citation needed] Rumsfeld intended the extended techniques to be used only on the captives the United States classified as "illegal combatants". However, extended interrogation techniques were adopted in Iraq, even though captives there were entitled to protection under the Geneva ...
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Bucharest, and Guantanamo Bay—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former CIA contractors who designed the harsh interrogation program used after the Sept. 11 attacks are being summoned to testify before the military tribunal at the U.S ...