This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Morris Davis speaks bluntly about some of President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. “There’s a pair of testicles somewhere between the Capital Building and the White House that fell off the president after Election Day [2008],” said Davis, an Air Force colonel who spent [...]
November 14, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by investigative reporter Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Attorneys defending some of the high-value detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay are pushing back against a new policy implemented by Navy Rear Adm. David B. Woods, the commander of the prison facility, which calls for the seizure and review of the [...]
November 4, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published at Truthout. Attorneys for Abu Zubaydah say they have been trying to mount a meaningful defense for the “high-value” detainee, who has been in the custody of the US government since March 2002, and have also sought legal remedies outside of the United States to [...]
October 29, 2011 | Filed under
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Reporting by Jason Leopold. Originally published on Truthout. Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA’s clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn Carle‘s office in December 2002 and presented the veteran CIA operative with an urgent proposal. “I want you to go on a temporary assignment,” Carle recalls Richer telling him. “It’s [...]
October 24, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. In 2002, not long after he was subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, psychologists under contract to the CIA, high-value detainee Abu Zubaydah made about ten drawings depicting the torture he endured while in custody of the [...]
October 6, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by investigative reporter Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. A top US Air Force official, in an attempt to ensure the Air Force adheres to the Constitution as well as its own regulations and policies, issued guidelines that calls on “leaders at all levels” to take immediate steps to maintain [...]
September 17, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. The US Army has told a reservist who has spent half his life in the military that he is barred from re-enlisting, asserting he “leaked” classified information to this reporter during an interview in which he spoke candidly about his experiences working as [...]
August 26, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published at Truthout. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 just a month away, the intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have started to attract fresh scrutiny from former counterterrorism officials, who have called into question the [...]
August 12, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons by citing passages from the New Testament and commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party, according to newly released documents. The [...]
July 28, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Last week, the Australian government announced that it would initiate legal proceedings to try and seize royalty payments David Hicks has received following the publication of his memoir, “Guantanamo: My Journey,” about the five years he spent at the prison facility, charging that [...]
July 27, 2011 | Filed under
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