Ex-Official: Bush Panicked After 9/11 Former State Dept. Lawyer Describes Bush Administration’s Gimto Interrogations As Torture (CBS/AP) A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners. Former President George W. Bush denied anyone was tortured. But Vijay Padmanabhan is at least the second insider to…
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, NEWSWEEK – Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify “and publicly release” three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the “enhanced” interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against “high value” Qaeda detainees. The…
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By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. “There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff…
