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US President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, has condemned the interrogation technique "waterboarding" as "torture". But he made it clear that agents who had carried out waterboarding in the past should not be prosecuted if they believed they were following the law.
The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency has said he has an "excellent idea" where Osama Bin Laden is hiding.
2005-06-20
Osama bin Laden CIA War On TerrorA leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects. But ex-commission executive director Philip Zelikow says the CIA did not hand over tapes that have since come to light, the New York Times reported. The CIA later erased the footage, which allegedly contains images of abuse. ... The agency said the footage was deleted to protect the...
Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen, recalls waking up in a prison in Kabul where he was told by an interrogator: You are in a country with no laws... We can lock you up here for 20 years or bury you, no-one would know.
2006-06-27
War On Terror terrorism USA rendition prison torture abduction Afghanistan CIAUS President George W Bush has announced an inquiry into pre-war intelligence that said Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
2004-02-02
CIA spy WMD War On Terror Iraq invasion USA George BushEight Americans working for the CIA have died in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the worst against US intelligence officials since 1983.
2009-12-31
Afghanistan CIA bomb