Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP
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Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr allowed Gina Haspell her to “classify” her own direct role in waterboarding and other torture techniques so that it could be kept from the public and secure her confirmation

Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture

Newly released official documents obtained by the National Security Archive showing that CIA Director Gina Haspel directly supervised waterboarding at the first CIA “Black Site” simply confirm what Senate

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Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Savior in inner-city Washington.  He served 30 years as an U.S. Army Intelligence and CIA analyst, and in retirement co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Secret Report Reveals Torture Used in Saudi-led Coalition Prisons in Yemen

The report lists the types of physical and psychological torture conducted in the prisons administered directly by Emiratis.

Secret Report Reveals Torture Used in Saudi-led Coalition Prisons in Yemen

Al Jazeera received a secret report prepared by former military officials who worked with the Saudi-UAE alliance in Yemen on the conditions of prisons and secret detention centres and forced disappearances.

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Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel’s Torture Journal

Critics say this “detailed account” of the CIA director’s role “in horrendous acts of torture” further confirms “that she is totally unfit to lead the agency.”

Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel’s Torture Journal

Government cables reported in the New York Times on Friday "read like torture

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A Prisoner’s Story of Capture, Detention and Torture in a Secret UAE Prison in Yemen

“They were hanging me for a long time and electrocuted me. I was screaming from beatings so intense that I could feel our cell shake then I went unconscious.”

A Prisoner’s Story of Capture, Detention and Torture in a Secret UAE Prison in Yemen

SOUTHERN YEMEN -- “They come to strip off our clothes not to liberate us. After taking your clothes off, they tie your hands to a steel pole from the right and the left so you are spread open in front of them. Then the sodomizing starts,” a released prisoner from a secret United Arab Emirates prison black-site, who only wanted to be identified as

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Ahmed Abdulkareem

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Ahmed AbdulKareem is a Yemeni journalist. He covers the war in Yemen for MintPress News as well as local Yemeni media.

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UK Intelligence ‘Turned a Blind Eye’ to US Torture

British intelligence was fully aware of the existence of the “black sites” and gave details of email exchange between officers to show their full knowledge as early as 2003.

UK Intelligence ‘Turned a Blind Eye’ to US Torture

British intelligence officials questioned detainees that were tortured dozens of times by their US counterparts but refused to raise concerns over the industrial scale of the abuse, a report by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has revealed.

The parliamentary group that

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Gina Haspel Admits She Was An Advocate For Destroying CIA Torture Tapes

According to Haspel’s prepared statement, the issue with the tapes “lingered at the CIA for a period of about three years.”

Gina Haspel Admits She Was An Advocate For Destroying CIA Torture Tapes

Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, acknowledged during her confirmation hearing that she was a staunch advocate for the destruction of CIA torture videotapes in 2005. Ninety-two tapes of the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were destroyed. Jose Rodriguez, who was the director of the CIA’s

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Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

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