New CIA Documents Reveal More Horrors Of President Bush’s Torture Program

A heavily redacted trove details death of detainees and draft letter requesting interrogators be protected from prosecution.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr. punching one of several handcuffed detainees lying on the floor in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Google has been targeting independent media outlets that publish the Abu Ghraib photos, threatening to cut off vital ad revenue that keep many smaller newsrooms afloat.

The CIA on Tuesday released dozens of documents detailing its torture and rendition program under the Bush administration, from the horrific treatment of detainees to the agency’s 2002 plan to ask the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) not to prosecute interrogators. The heavily redacted trove of more than 50 documents was published in response to

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VIDEO: Jeb Bush Confronted By College Student: ‘Your Brother Created ISIS’

19-year old Ivy Ziedrich, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration’s bad foreign policy was responsible for the rise of the terrorist group ISIS, or Islamic State.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

The heated confrontation took place at a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, according to The New York Times. 19-year old Ivy Ziedrich, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration's bad foreign policy was

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WATCH: Journalist Confronts George W. Bush On War Crimes

Editor’s note: Journalist Derrick Broze is an independent investigative reporter for MintPress but was vlogging for The Conscious Resistance during the time of confronting former President George Bush.    (ANTIMEDIA) On Tuesday May 12, former President George W. Bush was signing copies of his new book, “41: A Portrait of My Father”, at a Houston bookstore. I […]

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
George W. Bush

Editor's note: Journalist Derrick Broze is an independent investigative reporter for MintPress but was vlogging for The Conscious Resistance during the time of confronting former President George Bush.    (ANTIMEDIA) On Tuesday May 12, former President George W. Bush was signing copies of his new book, “41: A Portrait of My Father”,

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Families Of 9/11 Victims Demand That US Release Classified Documents

A bill is fighting its way through Congress that would declassify 28 pages redacted from a report on 9/11 that could link the Saudi government to the attacks.

Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
By Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
Geraldine Davie

WASHINGTON-- Sylvia Carver was near Washington, D.C., listening to the radio, when she heard that a plane had slammed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. She just knew, somehow, her sister Sharon, a Pentagon employee, was hurt. Carver called her sister’s phone over and over, but no one picked up. “She always answered her phone,” Carver told

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