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Exclusive: The Abu Zubaydah Diaries | Al Jazeera America

Exclusive: The Abu Zubaydah Diaries | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America has obtained the personal writings of one of the highest-value detainees at Guantanamo Bay…

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A Justice Department Memo Provides the CIA's Legal Justification to Kill a US Citizen | VICE News

A Justice Department Memo Provides the CIA's Legal Justification to Kill a US Citizen | VICE News

"This white paper sets forth the legal basis upon which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could use letha…

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Revealed: Inside the Senate report on CIA interrogations | Al Jazeera America

Revealed: Inside the Senate report on CIA interrogations | Al Jazeera America

A still-classified report on the CIA's interrogation program established in the wake of 9/11 sparked a furiou…

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Sold Into "a Piece of Hell:" A Death of Innocence at Gitmo

Sold Into "a Piece of Hell:" A Death of Innocence at Gitmo

Sold for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners detained at Guantanamo . A federal judge …

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Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed

Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Hunger striking Guantanamo prisoners who are force-fed a liquid nutritional supplement…

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Widespread Breakdown of Safeguards at Gitmo

Widespread Breakdown of Safeguards at Gitmo

On more than a dozen occasions over the course of eight years, Adnan Latif complained to his attorney that hi…

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Revealed: The 95 FOIA Requests Flagged for Pentagon Approval

Revealed: The 95 FOIA Requests Flagged for Pentagon Approval

A few weeks ago, the nonpartisan organization Cause of Action posted a story on its website about a secret Pe…

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Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Prisoners' Own Words

Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Prisoners' Own Words

Abdulsalam Al-Hela does not understand why he and other Guantanamo prisoners reside in a perpetual state of l…

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A Guantanamo Tour: 'Much Ado About Nothing'?

A Guantanamo Tour: 'Much Ado About Nothing'?

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - A bearded man in white appeared in the narrow window that faced the gravel walkway lea…

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EXCLUSIVE: From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant - the Inside Story of the Other Abu Zubaidah

EXCLUSIVE: From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant - the Inside Story of the Other Abu Zubaidah

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Meet the brother of the first high-value detainee; he came to the US to pursue the American …

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So Then the FBI Sent Out an Agent to Check Up on My FOIA Request ...

So Then the FBI Sent Out an Agent to Check Up on My FOIA Request ...

Early last year, I discovered that Abu Zubaidah, the first high-value detainee who was held in top-secret CIA…

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A "Victory" in My FOIA Lawsuit Against the FBI

A "Victory" in My FOIA Lawsuit Against the FBI

Founding director of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Information Policy calls FBI actions "an emb…

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EXCLUSIVE: DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others "Chemically Restr...

EXCLUSIVE: DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others "Chemically Restr...

Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other…

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EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboard...

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboard...

The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosag…

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EXCLUSIVE: "Guidebook to False Confessions": Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Rel...

EXCLUSIVE: "Guidebook to False Confessions": Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Rel...

In May of 2002, one of several meetings was convened at the White House where the CIA sought permission from …

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EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program

Dr. Bruce Jessen's handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war…

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Did US Medical Personnel Remove High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah's Eye?

EXCLUSIVE: Why Did US Medical Personnel Remove High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah's Eye?

Shortly after he was captured in March 2002 at a safe house in Faisalabad, Pakistan, following an early morni…

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Air Force Pulls "Jesus Loves Nukes" Ethics Training After Publication of Truthout Report

Air Force Pulls "Jesus Loves Nukes" Ethics Training After Publication of Truthout Report

The Air Force, in response to an exclusive report published by Truthout earlier this week, has withdrawn mate…

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EXCLUSIVE: Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfield Plagued By Major Safety Issues

EXCLUSIVE: Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfield Plagued By Major Safety Issues

Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting a…

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Alyeska CEO Resigns Following Truthout Expose

Alyeska CEO Resigns Following Truthout Expose

Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed employees at the company Wednesday m…

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Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf

Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf

British Petroleum (BP) has broken federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintai…

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