STRANGE Bush-Era Files
Torture memos, WMD intelligence and the CIA interrogation report — the declassified paper trail of the 2000s.
THE DOCUMENTS
Senate Report: CIA Detention & Interrogation (2014)
Five-year SSCI study of 6.3M+ pages of CIA records; 500+ page declassified executive summary. Findings: 'enhanced interrogation techniques' were not effective; the CIA gave extensively inaccurate information about the pr…
Senate Report: Prewar Iraq WMD Intelligence (2004)
Unanimous bipartisan S. Rept. 108-301: most key judgments in the Oct 2002 NIE on Iraq were overstated or unsupported; 'group think' presumed active WMD programs; no CIA sources inside Iraq on WMD after 1998. Did NOT find…
The OLC 'Torture Memos' (2002)
OLC memos signed by Jay Bybee (drafted principally by John Yoo): narrowed 'torture' to pain equivalent to organ failure or death, and approved CIA 'enhanced' techniques for Abu Zubaydah. Withdrawn in 2004 by OLC head Jac…
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