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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

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Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Gina Haspel is sworn in before the Senate Intelligence Committee during her confirmation hearing to become the next CIA director, in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
May 9, 2018, 7:45 pm
CIA nominee Haspel vows spy agency will not practice torture
‘I would never, ever take CIA back to an interrogation program,’ Trump’s pick for spy chief says at confirmation hearing
By AFP
President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
January 27, 2017, 10:32 pm
Trump: Mattis’s view on torture will override my own beliefs
US president does not ‘necessarily agree’ with secretary of defense, ‘but he will override because I’m giving him that power. He’s an expert’
By Julie Pace and Vivian Salama
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking at the Homeland Security Department in Washington, January 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
January 26, 2017, 11:32 am
Trump says torture works, vows to ‘fight IS fire with fire’
Administration said to be looking at resuming waterboarding, reopening CIA-run ‘black site’ prisons outside the United States
By Bradley Klapper, Desmond Butler and Deb Riechmann
In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the US military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who were captured after the September 11 attacks, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP/Charles Dharapak)
January 25, 2017, 7:25 pm
Trump seeks review of terror interrogation techniques
President also considers reopening CIA offshore ‘black sites,’ according to a draft executive order
By Desmond Butler and Bradley Klapper
President-elect Donald Trump gives the thumbs up as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016 in Bedminster, N.J.. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
November 23, 2016, 12:23 am
Trump faces hurdles to reinstating waterboarding
Steep legal obstacles to reinstating the interrogation practice that simulates drowning
By Deb Riechmann
US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator John McCain speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 15, 2016. (AP/Susan Walsh, File)
November 19, 2016, 11:41 pm
McCain to Trump: We are not bringing back waterboarding
Leading Republican warns any effort by president-elect to restore extreme interrogations will be challenged in court
By AP
Former secretary of defense William Cohen in 2011 (YouTube screen capture)
March 5, 2016, 3:03 am
US ex-defense chief: Trump’s anti-terror plan could bring Nuremberg-like trials
William Cohen says hypothetical orders to kill terrorists’ families would contravene ‘everything the US stands for in this world’
By JTA
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he signs autographs at a campaign event at Plymouth State University Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, in Plymouth, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
February 18, 2016, 4:07 am
‘Torture works,’ Trump declares before S. Carolina primary
America’s enemies are ‘chopping off heads,’ Republican hopeful tells campaign event crowd. ‘We’re in danger. We have people that want to do really bad things’
By AP
CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
December 12, 2014, 6:02 am
CIA chief defends agency, but admits ‘abhorrent’ abuses
Speaking from Langley headquarters, John Brennan blasts Senate report, admits officials were unprepared
By Dan De Luce
Illustrative: The High Court of Justice in session. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 10, 2014, 11:00 am
Senate report says CIA looked to Israel for torture rulings
US spy agency cited High Court decision in 1999 that found certain techniques were defensible in cases of imminent attack
By Lazar Berman
A guard stands duty in a tower over Guantanamo Bay's Detention Camp Delta, in 2007. (Army Sgt. Joseph Scozzar/Public Domain)
December 10, 2014, 5:10 am
Jewish lawmakers decry torture practices, welcome report
‘The CIA’s actions a decade ago are a stain on our values and our history,’ one democratic senator says
By JTA
Illustrative: A sailor stands watch over a cell block in Guantanamo Bay's detention facility while detainees look through magazines and books, on March 30, 2010. (Joshua Nistas/US Navy/Department of Defense)
December 9, 2014, 8:13 pm
Senate issues damning report on CIA torture techniques
Lawmakers say agency abused al-Qaeda prisoners far beyond legal boundaries, misled public on program’s effectiveness
By Bradley Klapper and Ken Dilanian
In this May 27, 2011, file photo, American journalist James Foley of Rochester, NH, poses for a photo in Boston. (photo credit: AP/Steven Senne)
August 29, 2014, 6:31 am
Foley, Western hostages reportedly waterboarded by IS
‘They knew exactly how it was done,’ person with knowledge of events tells The Washington Post
By AFP and ToI Staff
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