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1 HOME PAGE TODAY'S PAPER VIDEO MOST POPULAR TIMES TOPICS Welcome, lgreenk1 Log Out Help Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com WORLD U.S. N.Y. / REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE HEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS STYLE TRAVEL JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOS Advertise on NYTimes.com TIMES TOPICS > ORGANIZATIONS > C > CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY > C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS C.I.A. Interrogations Report an Error RECOMMEND Updated: July 1, 2011 After the attacks of Sept. 11, President Bush signed a series of directives authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct a covert war against Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Al Qaeda. The directives empowered the agency to kill or capture Al Qaeda leaders. The C.I.A. began jailing suspects in 2002, creating an interrogation program from scratch to deal with so-called "high value detainees" of the war on terror. Its detention program for Al Qaeda leaders was the most secretive component of an extensive regime of detention and interrogation put into place by the United States government after the attacks and the war in Afghanistan. In its scramble to create a system, the agency made the momentous decision to use harsh methods that the government had long condemned. It located its overseas jails based largely on which foreign governments were most accommodating and rushed to move the prisoners when word of the sites leaked. It borrowed its techniques from an American military training program modeled on the torture repertories of the Soviet Union and other cold-war adversaries, a lineage that would come to haunt the agency. The debate over those methods, and their effectiveness, flared again in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden. As intelligence officials disclosed the trail of evidence that led to the compound in Pakistan where Bin Laden was hiding, a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. But a closer look at prisoner interrogations suggests that the harsh techniques played a small role at most in identifying Bin Laden s trusted courier and exposing his hide-out. One detainee who apparently was subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier, according to current and former officials briefed on the interrogations. But two prisoners who underwent some of the harshest treatment including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times repeatedly misled their interrogators about the courier s identity. The shift toward what Bush administration officials called enhanced or coercive interrogations began in Officials in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo that argued that such interrogations constitute torture only if they intentionally caused suffering "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." That memo was rescinded in 2004, and since then members of the Bush administration have insisted that torture is "abhorrent'' and prohibited by existing regulations. But the former president and many conservatives argued for years that force was necessary to persuade Qaeda operatives to talk. Human rights advocates, and Mr. Obama as he campaigned for office, said the tactics were torture, betraying American principles for little or nothing of value. President Obama signaled soon after his inauguration in January 2009 that he was reluctant to re-examine the treatment of prisoners and the use of harsh interrogation tactics. In June 2011, the Justice Department announced that it was opening a full criminal investigation into the Headlines Around the Web What's This? DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS JULY 21, 2011 Obama, Secret Prisons and Torture THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JULY 17, 2011 Steve Stormoen, Former CIA Officer, Under Scrutiny In Abu Ghraib Prisoner Death DIALOGIC JULY 15, 2011 Human Rights Watch: Getting Away with Torture - The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees AFTERDOWNINGSTREET JULY 14, 2011 Is it Emancipation Day for 'good faith' torturers? 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2 deaths of two terrorism suspects in the agency's custody overseas, but it was closing inquiries into the treatment of nearly 100 other detainees over the last decade. The announcement was hailed by the C.I.A. as a vindication of sorts, as the broader questions of how agents carried out the harsh questioning techniques approved by the Bush administration was set aside. Background The C.I.A. operated its detention system under a series of secret legal opinions by agency and Justice Department lawyers. Those rules provided a legal basis for the harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, which was used on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has confessed to being the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. The prison network remained cloaked in secrecy until Mr. Bush confirmed its existence during a speech in September 2006: he announced that the 14 remaining inmates in C.I.A. prisons would be transferred to Guantánamo. Considerable mystery remained, however, over the interrogation techniques used in the program. The C.I.A. interrogation techniques were finally confirmed by the Obama administration in April 2009, when they released Justice Department memos that authorized a range of brutal interrogation techniques, including forced sleeplessness and waterboarding. In August 2009, the Justice Department released a long-secret report chronicling abuses inside the Central Intelligence Agency's overseas prisons, showing how interrogators choked a prisoner repeatedly and threatened to kill another detainee's children. In response, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. launched a criminal investigation of the C.I.A.'s interrogation program which he assigned to John H. Durham, a veteran federal prosecutor in Connecticut who since 2008 had been reviewing the destruction by the C.I.A. of interrogation videotapes to see if any laws were broken. In November 2010, Justice Department officials said that Mr. Durham would not be bringing any charges regarding the destruction of videotapes. Abu Zubayadh The C.I.A.'s interrogation program seemed to show early results with the capture of Abu Zubaydah in April Mr. Zubaydah, a close associate of Mr. bin Laden, had run Al Qaeda's recruiting, bringing in young men from other countries to training camps in Afghanistan. Mr. Zubaydah identified Jose Padilla, a low-level Qaeda convert who was arrested in May 2002 in connection with an effort to build a dirty bomb. He also helped identify Mr. Mohammed as a crucial figure in the 9/11 plot. Mr. Zubaydah was later flown to Thailand and held at the first of the "black sites," the C.I.A. interrogation facilities for major Qaeda figures. It was there that the agency would first try physical pressure to get information, including the near-drowning technique of waterboarding. The methods involved came from the military's SERE training program (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape), in which for decades American service members were given a sample of the brutal treatment they might face if captured. A small version of SERE had long operated at the C.I.A.'s Virginia training site known as The Farm. Mr. Zubaydah was subjected to repeated waterboarding. Senior Federal Bureau of Investigation officials thought such methods unnecessary and unwise. Their agents got Mr. Zubaydah talking without using force and he revealed the central role of Mr. Mohammed in the 9/11 plot. They correctly predicted that harsh methods would darken the nation's reputation and complicate future prosecutions. Many C.I.A. officials also voiced doubts, and the agency used contract employees with military experience for much of the work. With Mr. Zubaydah's case, the pattern was set. With a new prisoner, the interrogators would open the questioning. If officers believed the prisoner was holding out, paramilitary officers who had taken a crash course in the SERE techniques but who knew little about Al Qaeda would move in to manhandle the prisoner. Aware that they were on tenuous legal ground, agency officials at headquarters insisted on approving each new step -- a night without sleep, a session of waterboarding, even a "belly slap" -- in an exchange of encrypted messages. A doctor or medic was always on hand. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Full Report (.pdf) CIA Admits Destroying 92 Videotapes of Interrogations, According to Department of Justice Lawyers Letter (ACLU, et al. v. Dept. of Defense) (findlaw.com) OTHER COVERAGE The Torture Timeline Foreign Policy, April 2009 The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, April 30, 2009 The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the C.I.A. s Secret Interrogation Program Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Aug. 13, 2007 At Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison: CIA Has Run a Secret Facility for Some Al Qaeda Detainees, Officials Say Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2004 CIA 'Running Secret Terror Jails' BBC News, Nov. 2, 2005 Multimedia Documents: A Chart of Congressional Briefings on Interrogation Methods A newly released document shows frequent briefings for some top Democrats on waterboarding and other harsh methods starting in and 2005 Justice Department Memos Files from 2002 and 2005 released by the Justice Department detailing interrogation techniques used by C.I.A. operatives. 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3 Within days of his capture, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was flown to Afghanistan and then to Poland, where the most important unit of the black sites was located. Mr. Mohammed met his captors at first with cocky defiance, telling one veteran C.I.A. officer, a former Pakistan station chief, that he would talk only when he got to New York and was assigned a lawyer -- the experience of his nephew and partner in terrorism, Ramzi Yousef, after Mr. Yousef's arrest in But the rules had changed, and the tough treatment began shortly after Mr. Mohammed arrived. By several accounts, he proved especially resistant, chanting from the Koran, doling out innocuous information or obvious fabrications. The Times reported in 2007 that the intensity of his treatment -- various harsh techniques, including waterboarding, were used about 100 times over a period of two weeks -- prompted worries that officers might have crossed the boundary into illegal torture. The intelligence riches ultimately gleaned from Mr. Mohammed were reflected in the report of the national 9/11 commission, whose footnotes credit his interrogations 60 times for facts about Al Qaeda and its plotting -- while also occasionally noting assertions by him that were "not credible." The interrogations the commission cited began just 11 days after Mr. Mohammed's capture and ended just days before its report was published in mid Mr. Mohammed claimed a role in a long list of completed and thwarted attacks. Human rights advocates have questioned some of his claims, including the beheading of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, suggesting that they may have been false statements made to stop the torture. Interrogation Wars The Guantánamo Docket, an Interactive Database By reviewing government documents, court records and media reports, The Times was able to compile an approximate list of detainees currently at Guantánamo. Legal Justifications and Challenges Since its inception, the C.I.A. interrogation and detention program has been a subject of intense debate at the highest levels of American government. A fierce dispute erupted between the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. over interrogation practices during the spring and summer of 2002; the F.B.I. officials objected to the harsh treatment and later withdrew from the questioning of Mr. Zubaydah. Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations about whether the C.I.A. could legally use the techniques. The meetings were led by Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, and attended by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top Bush administration officials. The Journey From Rendition to Freedom Muhammad Saad Iqbal was seized by the C.I.A. after 9/11, interrogated in a secret prison in Egypt, then sent on to Bagram Airbase and Guantanamo. This is a firsthand account of torture and rendition. At one point that summer, current and former intelligence officials have said, C.I.A. lawyers ordered that the use of such techniques by C.I.A. personnel be suspended until the Justice Department formally authorized them. That authorization came in a secret memo dated Aug. 1, 2002, written by John Yoo, a legal advisor in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and signed by Jay S. Bybee, head of the office. After Mr. Bybee and Mr. Yoo left the Justice Department, the new head of the office, Jack L. Goldsmith, advised government departments not to rely on that opinion, which was formally withdrawn in June After the C.I.A. raised further questions about the legality of its interrogation methods, Mr. Goldsmith's successor, Steven G. Bradbury, issued new opinions approving harsh methods in In June 2006, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which sets out a minimum standard for the treatment of captured fighters and others in conflicts that do not involve nation states, should apply to all detainees. The Military Commission Act of 2006 made illegal several broadly defined abuses of detainees, while leaving it to the president to establish specific permissible interrogation techniques. In July 2007, an executive order signed by Mr. Bush allowed the C.I.A. to use some methods banned for military interrogators but which the Justice Department determined were not violations of the Geneva Conventions. Bush Administration Terrorism Memos A look at Bush administration memorandums claiming sweeping presidential powers to bypass legal constraints when fighting terrorism. More Multimedia» On his second full day in office in January 2009, President Barack Obama instructed officials not to rely on any opinions on interrogation issued by the Justice Department since The executive order ended the secret overseas prisons, banned coercive interrogation methods and set a year timeline for closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Assessments and Disclosures Confirmation of previous reporting about harsh C.I.A. interrogation tactics was provided by a long-secret report prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which reached the public in April 2009, and 3 of 7 7/26/11 8:26 PM

4 from the release of long-secret Bush administration legal memos. On April 16, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the A.C.L.U. led to the release of the 2002 and 2005 memos by the Bush administration Office of Legal Counsel signed by Mr. Bybee and Mr. Bradbury. In dozens of pages of dispassionate legal prose, the methods approved by the Bush administration for extracting information from senior operatives of Al Qaeda are spelled out in careful detail -- including a previously unknown tactic: the C.I.A. proposed exploiting Mr. Zubaydah's fears by placing him in a box with insects. President Obama said that C.I.A. officers who were acting on the Justice Department's legal advice would not be prosecuted, but left open the possibility that anyone who acted without legal authorization could still face criminal penalties. The three Bush administration lawyers who signed the interrogation memos -- Mr. Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and Steven G. Bradbury -- were the subjects of a five-year investigation by the Justice Department's ethics office. The investigation sharply criticized the memorandums and found, in a report disclosed in 2010, that the two men had committed "professional misconduct." But that finding was rejected by David Margolis, a career lawyer at the Justice Department who made a final ruling on the ethics review. Mr. Margolis said the work of Judge Bybee and Mr. Yoo had "significant flaws," but said that any assessment should consider the climate of fear and urgency after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. One of the four secret legal memos that Mr. Obama ordered released was a 2005 Justice Department document, which was made public on April 2, It disclosed that C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding 266 times on the two key Al Qaeda prisoners, far more than had been previously reported. Agency officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Mr. Zubaydah. They used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Mr. Mohammed. The consensus of top administration officials about the C.I.A. interrogation program, which they had approved without debate or dissent in 2002, began to fall apart the next year. Acutely aware that the agency would be blamed if the policies lost political support, nervous C.I.A. officials began to curb its practices much earlier than most Americans know: no one was waterboarded after March 2003, and coercive interrogation methods were shelved altogether in A turning point came on May 7, 2004, the day the C.I.A. inspector general, John L. Helgerson, completed a devastating report. In thousands of pages, it challenged the legality of some interrogation methods, found that interrogators were exceeding the rules imposed by the Justice Department and questioned the effectiveness of the entire program. In a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2010, Judge Bybee told Congress that he never authorized several other rough tactics reportedly inflicted on terrorism suspects - including prolonged shackling to a ceiling and repeated beatings. He said the C.I.A. never sought approval for some practices detainees later said had been used on them, including dousing them with cold water to keep them awake and forcing them to wear diapers or soil themselves. Judge Bybee made clear that he had no first-hand knowledge of what actually had occurred in interrogations. The question of which interrogation techniques were approved by the Justice Department and which were not is at the core of the current Justice Department criminal investigation. Destruction of Videotapes In 2005, Jose A. Rodriguez, the former head of the agency s clandestine service, ordered his staff to destroy tapes of the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-rahim al-nashiri. The tapes had been kept in a safe in the agency s station in Thailand, where the interrogations were conducted in When word leaked out about in 2009 about the destruction of the tapes, Mr. Holder asked Mr. Durham to add the matter to an investigation he had already begun into the broader question of whether crimes were committed in connection with the program of harsh interrogations. Mr. Rodriguez took responsibility for the destruction of the tapes, according to current and former government officials, and said that C.I.A. lawyers had authorized his order. The agency withheld the fact that the tapes had been destroyed from Congressional oversight committees, federal courts and the Sept. 11 Commission, which had asked the agency for records of the interrogations. 4 of 7 7/26/11 8:26 PM

5 Documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union showed that the C.I.A. destroyed the tapes on the morning of Nov. 9, The five-year statute of limitations for filing charges of obstruction of justice related to their destruction expired on Nov. 9th, 2010, at which time Justice Department officials confirmed that no charges would be filed in the matter. Hide RELATED: Central Intelligence Agency C.I.A. Interrogation Tapes Detainees Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) Torture Waterboarding Terrorism Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan) Military Commissions Extraordinary Rendition Highlights From the Archives 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11 s Wake By SCOTT SHANE In 2002, two psychologists found a business opportunity selling interrogation and training services to the C.I.A. August 12, 2009 US NEWS Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE Interviews with more than a dozen former Bush administration officials shed new light on a battle over C.I.A. methods. May 4, 2009 US NEWS Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A. By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE As the White House released secret memos describing interrogation techniques, it said it would not prosecute those who carried out the practices. April 17, 2009 US NEWS An Ex-Detainee of the U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal By JANE PERLEZ, RAYMOND BONNER and SALMAN MASOOD Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was taken to Egypt and tortured. January 6, 2009 WORLD NEWS Inside a 9/11 Mastermind s Interrogation By SCOTT SHANE The story of an analyst who interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed without harsh tactics offers the closest look to date at the C.I.A. s interrogation program. June 22, 2008 WASHINGTON SERIES ARTICLES ABOUT C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS Newest First Oldest First Page: Next >> Justice Dept. to Widen 2 C.I.A. Inquiries By ERIC LICHTBLAU and ERIC SCHMITT The Justice Department announced Thursday that it is opening a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees who died in C.I.A. custody. July 1, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DETAINEES, DEFENSE CONTRACTS, PRISONERS OF WAR, TERRORISM, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Malign Neglect In declining a case brought by torture victims, the Supreme Court undermined the rule of law. May 22, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, TORTURE, SUPREME COURT, OBAMA, BARACK, BUSH, GEORGE W, MOHAMED, BINYAM After Bin Laden: The Torture Debate Readers respond to articles about the assassination of Osama bin Laden. 5 of 7 7/26/11 8:26 PM

6 May 5, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DEFENSE AND MILITARY FORCES, MILITARY TRIBUNALS, TERRORISM, TORTURE, AL QAEDA, BIN LADEN, OSAMA The Torture Apologists Efforts to justify torture after the killing of Osama bin Laden are cynical and destructive. May 5, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: SEPTEMBER 11 (2001), INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, EDITORIALS, TORTURE, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AL QAEDA, OBAMA, BARACK, YOO, JOHN C, MOHAMMED, KHALID SHAIKH, BIN LADEN, OSAMA Bin Laden Raid Revives Debate on Value of Torture By SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE; DAVID ROHDE CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FROM NEW YORK. The raid that led to Bin Laden s death has raised anew the issue of using torture to gain intelligence. May 4, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DETAINEES, UNITED STATES DEFENSE AND MILITARY FORCES, SEPTEMBER 11 (2001), INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, WATERBOARDING, TERRORISM, TORTURE, PAKISTAN, AL QAEDA, LIBI, ABU FARAJ AL-, BUSH, GEORGE W, MOHAMMED, KHALID SHAIKH, GHUL, HASSAN, BIN LADEN, OSAMA, KUWAITI, ABU AHMED AL- Honoring Those Who Said No to Torture By JAMEEL JAFFER and LARRY SIEMS To address the damage from the Bush administration s interrogation and detention policies, the Obama administration should recognize the public servants who rejected torture. April 28, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DETAINEES, WHISTLE-BLOWERS, UNITED STATES DEFENSE AND MILITARY FORCES, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, AWARDS, DECORATIONS AND HONORS, TORTURE, OBAMA, BARACK, BUSH, GEORGE W, HELGERSON, JOHN L A Case for Accountability The C.I.A. s decision to destroy tapes of the brutal interrogation of terrorism suspects was a serious affront to the rule of law. January 26, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: RECORDINGS AND DOWNLOADS (VIDEO), AFGHANISTAN WAR (2001- ), CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, EDITORIALS, PRISONERS OF WAR, TERRORISM, TORTURE, AFGHANISTAN, DURHAM, JOHN H, HELLERSTEIN, ALVIN K, BUSH, GEORGE W Iran: Scientist Tortured After Return, Web Site Says By WILLIAM YONG An Iranian nuclear scientist who said he had been abducted by the C.I.A. has been imprisoned and tortured since his return to Iran in July. January 4, 2011 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: KIDNAPPING, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, TORTURE, IRAN, AMIRI, SHAHRAM Poland: Suspect Asks for Abuse Inquiry By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lawyers for a terrorism suspect at Guantánamo Bay asked the Polish authorities to open an investigation into allegations that American agents abused him at a secret C.I.A. prison in Poland. December 17, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: PRISONS AND PRISONERS, POLITICAL PRISONERS, TERRORISM, TORTURE, GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE (CUBA), POLAND, ZUBAYDAH, ABU Cables Show U.S. Pressed Germany on C.I.A. Case By MICHAEL SLACKMAN; DIANA AURISCH CONTRIBUTED REPORTING. American officials pressured Germany not to enforce arrest warrants regarding a German who was kidnapped. December 9, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, KIDNAPPING, CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND STATE SECRETS, DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES, TERRORISM, TORTURE, GERMANY, STATE DEPARTMENT, WIKILEAKS, MASRI, KHALED EL- Terrorism Trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani Avoided Big Issues By BENJAMIN WEISER and CHARLIE SAVAGE 6 of 7 7/26/11 8:26 PM

7 The civilian trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani avoided aspects of his case that had made it fiercely debated. November 19, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DETAINEES, BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES, EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, PRISONERS OF WAR, DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES, TERRORISM, DECISIONS AND VERDICTS, TORTURE, NAIROBI (KENYA), GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE (CUBA), TANZANIA, DAR ES SALAAM (TANZANIA), AL QAEDA, HOLDER, ERIC H JR, BUSH, GEORGE W, GHAILANI, AHMED KHALFAN, KAPLAN, LEWIS A Ghailani Jury Never Heard His Statements on Plot Role By BENJAMIN WEISER An F.B.I. report provides information from the interrogation of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani that was not presented in his terrorism trial. November 18, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES, EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, PRISONERS OF WAR, DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES, CONFESSIONS, TERRORISM, DECISIONS AND VERDICTS, TORTURE, NAIROBI (KENYA), GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE (CUBA), DAR ES SALAAM (TANZANIA), AL QAEDA, GHAILANI, AHMED KHALFAN Acquittal on All but One Charge for Ghailani, Ex-Detainee By BENJAMIN WEISER; COLIN MOYNIHAN CONTRIBUTED REPORTING. The first former Guantánamo detainee tried in a civilian court was acquitted of all but one charge in the bombings of American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. November 18, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: DETAINEES, BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES, EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, PRISONERS OF WAR, DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES, TERRORISM, DECISIONS AND VERDICTS, TORTURE, NAIROBI (KENYA), NEW YORK CITY, GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE (CUBA), DAR ES SALAAM (TANZANIA), AL QAEDA, OBAMA, BARACK, ABEBE, HUSSEIN, MOHAMMED, KHALID SHAIKH, GHAILANI, AHMED KHALFAN, KAPLAN, LEWIS A Book Review - A Kidnapping In Milan - The CIA on Trial - By Steve Hendricks By MARK MAZZETTI The back story of the 2003 C.I.A. kidnapping of an imam off an Italian street in broad daylight. November 14, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: ESPIONAGE, REVIEWS, BOOKS AND LITERATURE, KIDNAPPING, TORTURE, HENDRICKS, STEVE, LADY, ROBERT SELDON, NASR, HASSAN MUSTAFA OSAMA No Criminal Charges Sought Over C.I.A. Tapes By MARK MAZZETTI and CHARLIE SAVAGE No criminal charges will be brought against C.I.A. officers involved in destroying recordings of the interrogation of Al Qaeda detainees. November 10, 2010 MORE ON C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS AND: RECORDINGS AND DOWNLOADS (VIDEO), PRISONERS OF WAR, TERRORISM, TORTURE, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AL QAEDA, RODRIGUEZ, JOSE A JR SEARCH 317 ARTICLES ABOUT C.I.A. INTERROGATIONS: Match Any Word Page: Next >> RELATED ADS what are related ads?» CIA Most Wanted» Water Boarding» CIA» Interogation Methods» Berços E CIA Home World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Site Map 2011 The New York Times Company Privacy Your Ad Choices Terms of Service Terms of Sale Corrections RSS Help Contact Us Work for Us Advertise 7 of 7 7/26/11 8:26 PM