Tag Archives: CIA

‘Where Are You?': A Patriotic Whistleblower’s Open Letter To American Civil Rights Groups

Posted on August 17, 2015 by markt

CIA whistleblower Jeffery Sterling (Occupy.com) By Jeffery Sterling St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8/13/15) Dear NAACP, National Action Network, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Congressional Black Caucus and others: Where were you? Where were you when I was faced with blatant discrimination at my … Continue reading →

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PBS Frontline: What the CIA Really Did To Its Detainees In Our Name

Posted on May 23, 2015 by markt

By Sarah Childress & Ly Chheng Frontline (5/19/15) From 2002 to 2007, at least 39 people were subjected to what the CIA called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which have been widely criticized as torture. In July 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft verbally approved … Continue reading →

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CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced To Prison: The Latest Blow In The Government’s War On Journalism

Posted on May 14, 2015 by markt

The successful prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling has given more leverage to the information clampdown that the Obama administration continues to implement.    By Norman Solomon The Nation (5/12/15) The sentencing of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on May 11 for … Continue reading →

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Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Collaborate With Bush Admin To Enable Systematic Torture

Posted on May 6, 2015 by markt

Democracy Now! (5/5/15) New details have emerged on how the American Psychological Association, the world’s largest group of psychologists, aided government-sanctioned torture under President George W. Bush. A group of dissident psychologists have just published a 60-page report alleging the APA secretly … Continue reading →

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CIA’s Torture Experts Now Use Their Skills In Secret Drone Program As Obama Dances Away From Responsibility

Posted on May 3, 2015 by markt

  forcechange.com / Sign petition   By Trevor Timm The Guardian (4/29/15)   The controversy over the CIA’s secret drone program has gone from bad to worse this week. We now know that many of those running it are the same people who headed … Continue reading →

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American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says

Posted on May 3, 2015 by markt

“…doing special things to special people in special places…” By James Risen The New York Times (4/30/15) WASHINGTON — The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the … Continue reading →

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Taking A Bite Out Of Apple: CIA ‘tried to crack security of Apple devices’

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markt

(Daily Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source and free to reprint with link to www.thedailycall.org )   Agency tried to insert surveillance back doors into apps.   By James Ball The Guardian (3/10/15) The CIA led sophisticated … Continue reading →

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Republicans Move Immediately To Suppress Full US Torture Report

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markt

(Editor’s Note: Former Democratic Sen. Udall should have published the full report in the Congressional Record as he had been urged to do. Once again, American democracy undermined by Democratic timidity and overall ballessness. — Mark L. Taylor) By Andrew … Continue reading →

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The CIA Didn’t Just Torture, It Experimented On Human Beings

Posted on January 10, 2015 by markt

Reframing the CIA torture  as a violation of scientific and medical ethics may be the best way to achieve accountability.   By Lisa Haijar The Nation (12/16/14) Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA’s torture program. The experimental … Continue reading →

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The “Triple Government” Calling The Shots In United States

Posted on January 6, 2015 by markt

“Further up the chain of command, the executive itself is responsive to profound sources of private influence residing outside of government.” By Bill Blunden WhoWhatWhere (1/4/15) “Double government.” Walter Bagehot coined the term in his 1867 book, The English Constitution. He hypothesized … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Admitted Drone Strikes Counterproductive

Posted on December 21, 2014 by markt

By TeleSUR (12/19/14) Controversial U.S. drone strikes may be helping rather than hindering the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to a leaked CIA document released by Wikileaks Thursday. The CIA document appears to be a 2009 internal review of the agency’s … Continue reading →

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The Charmed And Cushy Taxpayer Funded Life Of CIA Torturer Matthew Zirbel

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markt

“The death of Rahman, under conditions that could have been remediated by Agency officers, is a lasting mark on the Agency’s record.”     By Ken Silverstein The Intercept ((12/15/14)   Matthew Zirbel’s home in Great Falls, Virginia is filled … Continue reading →

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Two CIA Torture Psychologists Participated In Actual Torture While Collecting $81 Million In Taxpayer Funds

Posted on December 17, 2014 by markt

Did World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Enable Abuses? (Editor’s Note: A special guest on this show is Professor Alfred McCoy, at the University of Wisconsin — Madison. — Mark L. Taylor)   Democracy Now! (12/16/14) As a psychologist identified as … Continue reading →

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Values In The United States Of War: As Cowardly Govt. Torturers Walk Free, Courageous Peace Activists Jailed

Posted on December 13, 2014 by markt

Recent studies have shown that for every targeted person killed in a drone strike, twenty eight people of undetermined identity have also been slaughtered.    By David Swanson War Is A Crime (12/12/14) A psychologist who played a key role … Continue reading →

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CIA Torture Chief: Umm, ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News To Me

Posted on December 12, 2014 by markt

(Editor’s Note: So let’s be clear about the language. Forced “rectal feeding” is not some benign form of “enhanced interrogation”. Forced rectal feeding is RAPE. The American CIA raped prisoners. No matter how they want to spin it, the CIA … Continue reading →

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