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Is He Ready? Cain’s Comments Raise Some Questions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican voters are drawn to Herman Cain’s forceful campaign style. But an examination of his comments and proposals raises questions about his grasp of issues he would face if...
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US Muslim: FBI Made Interrogators Torture Me In United Arab Emirates
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Muslim American seeking asylum in Sweden claimed Wednesday he was detained at the U.S. government’s request while in the United Arab Emirates last summer, tortured in custody and...
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W.Va. Sheriff Says Woman Tortured; Husband Charged
LEROY, W.Va. (AP) — An attorney dismissed claims that a West Virginia man tortured his wife for years as entirely false, saying someone fabricated allegations that the man called his wife a slave,...
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Court: Contractors Allegedly Tortured By U.S. Forces In Iraq Can’t Sue Rumsfeld
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that two American contractors allegedly tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq can’t sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The 8-3 decision...
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Director Bigelow Defends Torture Scenes In ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director Kathryn Bigelow defends torture scenes in her Oscar-nominated film “Zero Dark Thirty,” saying torture was an undeniable part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden after the...
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Supreme Court: Rumsfeld Not Liable In Torture Lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from two American whistleblowers who claim U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq and who want to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The...
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Ex-Bin Laden Spokesman: US Tortured Me On Plane
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law claimed in court papers Friday that he was tortured by the U.S. and asked a judge to dismiss the terrorism case against him. Sulaiman Abu...
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Report: Pentagon, CIA Ordered Its Doctors To Help With Tortures Of Detainees
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A new report claims that medical personnel with the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency were ordered to help with the torture of detainees in U.S. custody since...
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CIA, Senate Feud Goes Public in D.C.
WASHINGTON — Secret reports. Vanishing documents. Whispers of crime, intimidation and cover-up. A quarrel between the CIA and the Senate that’s been rumbling beneath the surface for years burst into...
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NKorea UN Envoy: US ‘Hostile Policy’ Pushing Country To ‘Brink Of War’
GENEVA (AP) — North Korea’s U.N. envoy in Geneva is accusing the United States of pursuing a “hostile policy” to isolate his country as the world body investigates alleged crimes against humanity in...
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US Sen. ‘Stunned’ By Cheney Torture Denials, Suggests He ‘Sit In A...
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said that he was “stunned” at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense of torture techniques, saying that if Cheney doesn’t believe the controversial...
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Ron Paul: ‘End Torture, Shut Down The CIA!’
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Former congressman and libertarian leader Ron Paul is calling for the abolishment of the CIA, citing “horrific torture practices” and interrogation policies that have been...
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Obama: ‘We Tortured Some Folks’ After 9/11
WASHINGTON (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — The United States tortured al Qaeda detainees captured after the Sept. 11,2001 attacks, President Obama acknowledged Friday, in some of his most expansive comments to...
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UN Panel: US Must Answer For Alleged Torture Violations
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. panel began grilling American officials Wednesday over the country’s compliance with a key anti-torture treaty, raising a series of alleged violations and admitted “lapses” since...
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Former CIA Director: Torture Report Could ‘Be Used By Our Enemies To Motivate...
WASHINGTON (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause “violence and...
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Senate Intelligence Committee Releases CIA ‘Torture Report’
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW/CBSNews/AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the panel’s long-awaited report on brutal CIA interrogation practices used after the 9/11 terror attacks...
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Cheney: CIA Torture Report Is A ‘Bunch Of Hooey’
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the panel’s long-awaited report on brutal CIA interrogation practices used after the 9/11 terror attacks stands as a...
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CIA Torture Report Casts Shadow Over ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
New York (AP) — The damning Senate Intelligence Committee report on post-9/11 interrogation techniques has cast a new pall over the 2012 film “Zero Dark Thirty.” Kathryn Bigelow’s docudrama about the...
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U.N. Chief Says U.S. Torture Report Should Spur Global Action
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for an international debate on stamping out torture in the wake of the recent U.S. Senate report detailing brutal CIA...
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Feinstein Urges Changes To Avoid Repeat Of CIA Torture
WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is urging a series of policy and legislative changes to ensure that the U.S. government never again tortures detainees, even...
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Former Md. Resident Held at Guantanamo Alleges CIA Torture
MIAMI — A former Maryland resident imprisoned at Guantanamo was subjected to mistreatment while in CIA custody far in excess of what has previously been disclosed, including being hung from a wooden...
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