The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation reveals that the CIA paid private contractors James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen $81 million to design, implement, and assess the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation program. The psychologists had no interrogation experience, no background …
CIA National Clandestine Service director Jose Rodriguez orders the destruction of 92 videotapes documenting hundreds of hours of brutal interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at secret CIA black sites. The tapes contain graphic evidence of waterboarding, stress positions, and …
Following the authorization provided by the August 2002 Yoo-Bybee torture memos, the CIA begins systematically implementing “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorism suspects held at secret black site prisons. The program, developed by psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen …
The White House Iraq Group implements a systematic campaign to withhold contradictory intelligence assessments from congressional committees, ensuring legislators vote for war based on incomplete and misleading information. WHIG coordinates with intelligence agencies to suppress dissenting analysis, …
The White House Iraq Group orchestrates coordinated misleading presentations by CIA and Pentagon officials to key congressional committees, ensuring executive branch agencies deliver unified disinformation rather than independent intelligence assessments. Through direct coordination with CIA …
The White House Iraq Group coordinates the delivery of systematically fabricated intelligence briefings to congressional intelligence committees, setting the foundation for legislative manipulation. Working through CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Council staff, WHIG ensures that key …
CIA Director George Tenet establishes the Iraqi Operations Group within the Counterterrorism Center, bypassing traditional intelligence analysis chains. The group was created under intense White House pressure to find intelligence supporting predetermined policy conclusions about Iraqi WMD and …
Following the September 11 attacks, President Bush authorizes the CIA to conduct “extraordinary rendition”—the extrajudicial kidnapping and transfer of terrorism suspects to foreign countries for detention and interrogation, often involving torture. CIA Director George Tenet and …
In September 1999, the Central Intelligence Agency established In-Q-Tel (IQT), a groundbreaking not-for-profit venture capital firm designed to bridge Silicon Valley innovation with intelligence community needs. The initiative was championed by CIA Director George Tenet, who recognized that …