CIA

From The Room: DOJ: We Aren't Just Torturing Them for Fun

April 27, 2008 - The Justice Department recently outlined a legal defense for the interrogation methods that have been deemed "torture" by severa...

Join al-Qaeda, see the world, blow yourself up

March 24, 2008 - While the U.S. Armed Forces are falling short of enlistment goals and the CIA and FBI continue to struggle with their attempts to infiltrate al-Qaeda, the bad guys seem to be doing ju...

From The Room: The CIA Is Sneaking Around Like an Indignant Teenager

February 19, 2008 - "Having requested the Pakistani government's official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval. The government of Pakistani President Pervez...

News Odds for Thursday, January 3, 2007

January 3, 2008 - Odds that... U.S. prosecutor John Durham, leading the Justice Department's criminal investigation into the destroyed CIA interrogation tapes, rolls his eyes when the CIA and the White House...

From The Room: How the CIA Stole Christmas

December 22, 2007 - Happy holidays, everyone! Click the green button below and enjoy our Christmas song. Max and the Marginalized write and record a new song every week. Archives are here...

FAQ: CIA interrogation tapes

December 19, 2007 - The scandal surrounding the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has now reached the White House. Though the administration has previously denied being involved, it turns out that four White House lawyers, including disgraced attorney general Alberto Gonzalez and Supreme Court Justice also-ran Har...

Judge wants Nixon Bush to explain why tapes were destroyed

December 18, 2007 - A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to explain why controversial CIA interrogation tapes were destroyed. In June 2005, the same judge ordered the administration to keep "all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees." The tapes were destro...

From The Room: Taping Over History

December 14, 2007 - With everyone in the news on the attack over the CIA destroying a few tapes that may have showed off some minor incidents of torture (maybe), everyone seems to be missing what's really important here. If there's no evidence, then who are we to say that it actually...

From The Room: Bush Vows to Take Out Iran's Non-Existent Nukes

December 8, 2007 - (37 minutes ago) Speaking at an emergency press-conference in the White House, President Bush has just announced that air, sea and land elements of a massive US invasion force are being assembled in the Persian Gulf and on Iran's Western borders. Citing Monday's NIE which established "bey...

Thought Process Flow-Chart: CIA Director Michael Hayden

December 7, 2007 - Angry Dems in Congress are calling on interrogation enthusiast/Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate the CI...

From The Room: 11 Not-So-Harsh Interrogation Tactics

November 8, 2007 - Good for use in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and any number of secret CIA prisoner sites.... Replace regular showerheads with super-low-pressure eco-friendly showerheads. Pretend old showerheads have to be ordered from factory in Tucson. Play cassette tape of Telephone Line...

News Odds for Wednesday, October 24, 2007

October 24, 2007 - Odds that... When President Bush visits Southern California Thursday to see the damage caused by the wildfires, he brings a long stick and a bag of marshmallows: 12-5 As the...