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Federal officials are telling police to be vigilant on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, though they say it is routine advice.
Top House Republicans are calling for the CIA to release to Congress its records on the classified briefings it conducted for lawmakers on its harsh interrogation program in an effort to establish what Democrats knew about those techniques.
Release of Bush-era documents that shed more light on the origins of the CIA's use of harsh interrogation tactics has ignited a backstage battle between former Bush officials over a crucial May 2002 meeting that paved the way for use of waterboarding on a suspected al-Qaida leader.
The Obama administration's top intelligence official privately told employees last week that "high value information" was obtained in interrogations that included harsh techniques approved by former President George W. Bush.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says the Obama administration is endangering the country by releasing Justice Department memos that detail the CIA's interrogation techniques authorized by the Bush administration.
Excerpts of a memorandum from President Barack Obama to top department and agency officials restricting lobbying on the economic stimulus package, formally called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The White House released the memo March 20:
Baseball's players' union distributed a memo at spring training camps Tuesday with information about 2003 drug testing, handing out the legal-sized sheets of paper around the time Alex Rodriguez was discussing his use of banned drugs.
"American Idol" will have several changes to its format when it debuts in mid-January, according to an internal Fox memo posted online.
- A number of folks will view the polling memo from John McCain's pollster, Bill McInturff, as nothing more than rose-colored spin in order to prop up the Republican mindset in the days before Election Day.
According to an internal memo, it looks like some belt tightening has hit the costuming department at some of ABC’s biggest primetime shows.
- Was this the face of the mastermind of the Bush administration's alleged torture policy?
A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena an adviser to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation policies toward terror detainees.
The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.
The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee about the Bush administration's interrogation practices.
The Justice Department is investigating whether agency lawyers improperly advised the military it could use harsh interrogation methods and concluded that President Bush's wartime authority could not be limited by domestic law or international bans on torture.
The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to crack down on spying next season with more inspections and harsher penalties, steps that follow the disciplining of the New England Patriots for taping opponents' signals.
The fundraiser who held a gathering for Hillary Rodham Clinton with members of the Sikh community said Tuesday it was "unacceptable" for Barack Obama's campaign to circulate a memo critical of her financial ties to Indian-Americans.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Monday said his campaign made a "dumb mistake" when it circulated a memo criticizing rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial ties to India.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Explosion at Nato base in KabulThe BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.
BBC NEWS | UK | Killed officer warned of shortageThe most senior British officer to be killed in the Afghan campaign had warned about the risks posed to troops by a shortage of helicopters. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 39, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, died in a roadside bombing.
Faith-Based DiscriminationPresident Obama promised in his campaign to preserve President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative aimed at helping social service programs sponsored by religious organizations win federal grants and contracts.
Freedom of Speech Once Again Labeled Extremism By U.S. GovernmentOnce again the Federal Government seeks to stymie free speech through the labeling of people speaking out as potential terrorist. Maybe they are trying to exploit the old adage that no PR is bad PR? So here we go again.
John Yoo Pranked in ClassTruthfully, Yoo should be disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes. But in the absence of any political will to do so, I'll settle for his repeated public humiliation, and constant reminders of is moral, ethical and rational deficits.
Internal GOP Memo Attacks Bush Handling Of EconomyAn internal GOP memo prepared to brief some House Republicans as part of an ongoing probe into the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal takes direct aim at an unlikely target: Former President George W.
John Rizzo: The most influential career lawyer in CIA history is ResigningWhen he retires this summer, Rizzo will go out as the most influential career lawyer in CIA history, having risen to the top of the agency's legal ranks while leaving his mark on classified programs from proxy wars in Central America to Predator strikes in Pakistan.
Secret memo reveals Bush was given humane, legal alternative to harsh interrogationThe Bush administration was given clear and unequivocal advice encouraging a detainee interrogation system that followed humane practices that adhered to US and international law, a previously secret memo reveals.
When Franklin Roosevelt died, the fact that we had been developing nuclear weapons came as a big surprise to Harry Truman, his successor. You would expect that a person of such stature as the vice-president would be involved in something as important as the Ma …
This week saw a flurry of discourse about the ways in which the United States has interrogated detainees captured during operations against terrorists.
The Guantanamo Bay Torture Memos: For Kids!My six-year-old "son," whom I've yet to name, tossed and turned in the dresser drawer I'd converted into a bed. "What's wrong boy-I-refuse-to-acknowledge-as-mine-without-a-proper-paternity-test?" "Oh, nothing daddy," he said precociously, "just having troubl …
Daily Kos: [UPDATED with transcript AND video] Paul Begala DESTROYS Ari Fleischer on Anderson Cooper 360I am astounded by the fact that ALL Republicans seem to think that if you don't call something what it actually is (ie: torture), it really is not what it is being called.
Naming & Shaming... Brennan, Brennan, hmm, I can't put my finger on where I've heard that name... oh, wait, he was the guy who ... Why do I feel a roiling just under the surface?
Obama Administration Releases Secret Bush Admin Anti-Terror Memos Justifying 1st and 4th Amendment ViolationsThe Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
Fear has profoundly changed us | MiamiHerald.comYou remember the War on Terror, don't you? It was in all the papers. Back before presidential politics sucked the air from the room and your 401(k) shrank till it was worth maybe dinner and a movie, it was considered quite the important news story.
Updated Thursday, August 24, 2008 THE CANDU MEMORANDUM - PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES COMPARISON Questions for the Candidates that have never been asked and need to be answered
Memo claims "good faith" protects against torture chargeThe Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed `in good faith' that harsh techniques used to break the will of prisoners, including waterboarding, would not cause "prolonge …
The ACLU Has Obtained Justice Department Memos That Authorize TortureAs long as CIA agents could convince themselves they were not deliberately inflicting severe pain or suffering on detainees, they were free to do virtually anything in their questioning of suspected terrorists, including waterboarding.
America's road to torture and those who kept silent about it - Salt Lake TribuneBystander guilt. That is what FBI and Justice Department officials have on their conscience and what John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and FBI Director Robert Mueller should be haunted by every day.
Keeping Secrets: In Presidential Memo, A New Designation for Classifying Information Sometime in the next few years, if a memorandum signed by President Bush this month ever goes into effect, one government official talking to another about information on terrorists will have to begin by saying: "What I am about to tell you is controlled unclassified information …
Bush Administration Memo Allowing Torture SurfacesWhat's important now we have at least ONE signed memo which establishes George W. Bush as the executive authority making final decisions in the NSC process which established a United States run torture regime; the document shown at the bottom of this post. Of course:
Arrogance, indiscipline come down from the top Return with me to Abu Ghraib. You remember it. You may not want to, but you do.
Conyers Schedules Hearing with John YooHouse Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) wants to former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo to discuss his now-infamous March 14, 2003 memo that broadly authorized the use of torture by military interrogators of unlawful combatants.
There Were Orders to Follow You can often tell if someone understands how wrong their actions are by the lengths to which they go to rationalize them.
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