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President George W. Bush meets with Vice President Dick Cheney, CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office after informing the nation that air strikes were made against the Taliban Sunday, October 7, 2001WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ERIC DRAPER

Bush White House’s Repeated Torture Denials Led CIA Torturers to Seek Repeated Reassurances

President George W. Bush meets with Vice President Dick Cheney, CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office after informing the nation that air strikes were made against the Taliban Sunday, October 7, 2001WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ERIC DRAPER

Bush White House’s Repeated Torture Denials Led CIA Torturers to Seek Repeated Reassurances

President George W. Bush meets with Vice President Dick Cheney, CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office after informing the nation that air strikes were made against the Taliban Sunday, October 7, 2001WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ERIC DRAPER

Bush White House’s Repeated Torture Denials Led CIA Torturers to Seek Repeated Reassurances

The Bush administration was so adamant in its public statements against torture that CIA officials repeatedly sought reassurances that the White House officials who had given them permission to torture in the first place hadn’t changed their minds. In a July 29, 2003, White House meeting that included Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security […]

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA declassified a trove of articles from its in-house journal, articles that mock excessive secrecy and bad writing, dish on problematic affairs, and brag about press manipulation.

The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years

The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years

The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years

From 2009 to 2012, the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase, describing President Bush's authorization of the torture program, secret.