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CIA 'torture psychologists' avoid trial with secret settlement

TwopsychologistswhohelpeddesigntheCIA'spost-9/11interrogationprogramsettledalawsuitThursdaybydetaineesallegingtheywereillegallytortured.Thesecretsettlementinthe

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CIA director says 'worship of Snowden" fuels rise in leaks

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo said the growing trend of leaks by state or non-state actors was triggered partially by the "worship" of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.

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WikiLeaks exposes alleged CIA hacking program

The CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control your car, according to a trove of alleged documents from the US spy agency released Tuesday by WikiLeaks.

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Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking - sources

The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.

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CIA director nominee Mike Pompeo supports domestic surveillance, opposes Iran deal

Representative Mike Pompeo, President-elect Donald Trump's surprise choice to head the CIA, supports the US government's sweeping collection of Americans' communications data and wants to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran.

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Ex-president denies confirming existence of CIA prison in Romania

​Romania's former President Ion Iliescu on Monday firmly denied that he had confirmed the existence of a CIA secret prison in his country in his recent interview given to a German magazine.

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CIA worked to hack Apple devices for many years: report

​The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has conducted "a multi-year, sustained effort" to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads, a report from The Intercept, a U.S. news website, said Tuesday.

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CIA torture techniques spotlight Pakistani prisoners' plight

​The CIA brutal interrogation techniques cited in a recent U.S. Senate report has attracted attention about the plight of Pakistani prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram detention center in Afghanistan.

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CIA chief admits use of brutal interrogation techniques on detainees

Some officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used brutal techniques on terrorist suspects and there was no proof of useful information yielded from the interrogation, chief of the U.S. spy agency said on Thursday. < John Brennan, in a rare televised press conference held at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, acknowledged "unauthorized" and "abhorrent" practices by some officers, saying it was "unknowable" whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques produced key intelligence.

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CIA chief sees no proof of useful info from interrogations

​The chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conceded Thursday that there was no proof of useful information yielded from the brutal interrogation techniques used by the agency on terrorism detainees.

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U.S. embassy warns of potential for anti-American protests in Pakistan

The U.S. embassy in Islamabad has warned American nationals in Pakistan against possible anti- American protests after a U.S. Senate committee's report called the "brutal" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.

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China concerned about U.S. Senate torture report

​Chinese media coverage of a much-anticipated report released by the United States Senate, on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) torture of terrorists suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, gripped the nation on Wednesday.

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U.S. Senate releases report on CIA use of torture on detainees

​The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) repeatedly misled the public, Congress and the White House about its aggressive questioning and torture on detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to a U.S. Senate report released here Tuesday.

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UN experts urge Obama to back full release of report on CIA interrogation abuses

​A group of United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to support the fullest possible release of the report on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogation practices conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).

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U.S. Senate intelligence panel head accuses CIA of spying on panel's computers

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Tuesday accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of illegally searching computers used by her staffers investigating CIA interrogation methods, but the CIA director quickly denied the allegation.

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U.S. court rules bin Laden photos can remain classified

A U.S. Federal Appeals Court ruled on Tuesday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can keep the photos of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden's corpse classified.