The “torture report,” which took years to produce, charts the history of the CIA’s “Rendition, Detention and Interrogation” program, which President George W. Bush authorized after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
It’s going to be a doozy. Reutersreports that “graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s anti-terror tactics.”
+ “The report … describes how senior al-Qaida operative Abdel Rahman al Nashiri, suspected mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was threatened by his interrogators with a buzzing power drill.”
+ The White House has beefed up security at U.S. installations in preparation for backlash against Americans around the world.
+ The report hasn’t even been released yet, but former Bush and CIA officials are already pushing back against it.
+ This fantastic 2007 New Yorker story lifted the curtain on the U.S. torture regime.
Protests continue across America in response to the Eric Garner grand jury decision MicAlmost a week after a New York grand jury decidednot to indict a police officer for the death of Eric Garner, nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustices show no signs of slowing.
