CIA

ACLU Not Surprised of CIA Involvement in Domestic Spying

Recent reports have shed light on the CIA's desire to hack mobile phones, with government agencies going so far as to create their own versions of the software used by Apple and other mobile phone makers devices. Other reports have also chronicled the use of technology that mimics cell phone towers, referred to as "stingrays," that connect to phones and download users' data.

CIA Sought to Hack iPhone From the Very Beginning

Government snooping into mobile devices has been going on far longer than many originally thought. In a new report by the news site The Intercept, CIA researchers have been working for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, citing documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Spokane Psychologists Say A-Okay, But What the Senate Say About CIA’s Interrogation Techniques?

Allegedly created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States in collaboration with psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen from Spokane, the “enhanced interrogation techniques” sought out employ an interrogation approach coined by the psychologists, known as “learned helplessness”. Aside from severe physical harm and abuse, which detainees experience in collaboration with other intensely physical torturous methods, this “learned helplessness” predicted that detainees would become passive and depressed when faced with an inevitable and unforeseeable chain of events that they could neither predict nor control.

SHOCKER—Senate Committee Finds Waterboarding and Torture Methods to be Ineffective Against Terrorists

We may live in the 21st century, with many conventions in place to protect the rights of the general public, but if you’re a prisoner of war you’re likely to find that those same courtesies are not extended to you too. In fact, as it so happens, torture may be on your captor’s list of to-do’s. It’s been a long-awaited document, approached with some hesitation by the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, but on Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Senate released its torture report, recounting endless accounts of post-9/11 detention and interrogation programs initiated by the United States’ CIA in more horrific detail than you could imagine. But what’s worse, is that the report revealed that the tactics of torture likely had little to no efficacy, even when inflicting bodily harm to acquire intel.

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