-CIA chief approved destruction of terrorist waterboarding tapes.

London Telegraph: The former CIA chief, Porter Goss, approved a 2005 decision to destroy 92 tapes showing US agents waterboarding two terrorism suspects, according to newly released internal emails. FBI investigators are still examining who knew what about the destruction of the videos, which showed officers using the simulated drowning technique that is widely considered [...]

-Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory.

Mother Jones: WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin—and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq. Meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site. Julian Assange’s response to this article is here. Read follow-up posts on WikiLeaks’ media blitz and the MoJo-WikiLeaks feud. The [...]

-US Army suicides hit grim record for 2009.

WASHINGTON — Suicides in the US Army rose to a new record in 2009, with 160 soldiers taking their lives, the military said Friday, calling it a “painful year.” Army leaders had warned that the suicide rate was on track to surpass last year’s toll of 140: AFP | Jan 16, 2010

-U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet’.

Human rights activists demonstrate waterboarding in front of the Justice Department. A soldier father stands accused of waterboarding his daughter because she couldn’t recite the alphabet Daily Mail | Feb 8, 2010 A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the [...]

-US creates terror groups, ex-intelligence chief says.

Press TV | Mar 4, 2010 Former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hamid Gol says the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region. In a Wednesday interview with Fars news agency, Gol said Washington had been making efforts to destabilize the region through supporting groups like the [...]