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...heavily redacted version of IG John Helgerson's findings was released last year. The new version may still contain some redactions, but it is expected to answer some of the pressing questions that remain over the CIA's use of coercive interrogation techniques against high-value terror detainees. That could be a key factor in whether Attorney General Eric Holder decides to order a separate investigation into the interrogations. The President is said to favor dropping the matter. But if the IG report declares or even suggests that interrogators went beyond the bounds of what the Bush Administration...
...hardened al-Qaeda operatives could only be broken in this manner. The IG report may help to establish the origins of the program. If it turns out the agency was forced into employing the harsh techniques, expect even louder calls for indictments of high-level Bush Administration officials.(Read "Terror Interrogations: Can the CIA and FBI Work Together...
...government for the violence - a brave act considering that the state media was calling the demonstrations riots instigated by foreign powers. And when Basiji militiamen roughed him up on the way to Friday prayers last month, Karroubi spoke out again. "They want to create an atmosphere of threat and terror so that people are kept silent," he said. And despite the growing atmosphere of official intolerance for challenges to the postelection order, Karroubi has again infuriated supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by publicizing the charge that opposition protesters were raped and abused in prison. (See the five reasons to suspect...
...TIME Archive: "Terror In the Night...
...TIME Archive: "Terror In the Night...