News you may have missed #0117

• Were CIA interrogation techniques based on bad science? The techniques used by the CIA during so-called “harsh interrogations” actually impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a new scientific paper.
• Ex-KGB officer loses court fight to avoid deportation from Canada. Former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, who is living in a Vancouver church, defying an order of expulsion from Canada on national security grounds, has lost his latest legal fight to avoid deportation.
• US building spy balloon. It’s not a joke (we think): the US says it is building a big spy balloon, similar to that currently being tested by Canada’s armed forces.