Politics / Tags / Cia

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McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 2, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform
SF Gate -- President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years. "I think the president should have stood by his word an.. Read More
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Top officials knew of interrogation tactics

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform
MSNBC -- The White House, Justice and State departments and the CIA refused comment Thursday, as did a spokesman for Tenet. A message for Ashcroft was not immediately returned. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., lambasted what he described as "yet another astonis.. Read More
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Bush reserves comment on CIA tapes

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform
MSNBC -- President Bush said Thursday he will reserve judgment about his administration's destruction of CIA interrogation tapes until several inquiries are finished. The destruction in 2005 of the tapes, showing harsh interrogation treatment of two terrorism s.. Read More
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Subpoena issued in CIA tapes case

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform
MSNBC -- Another of the administration lawyers, John Bellinger, then a lawyer at the National Security Council, has told colleagues that administration lawyers came to a consensus that the tapes should not be destroyed, said a senior official familiar with Belling.. Read More
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Congress, Bush in clash over CIA interrogation tapes

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Dec 16, 2007 @ 12:05pm neoform
www.afp.com -- Congress and President George W. Bush were headed for confrontation Saturday as US lawmakers accused the Justice Department of blocking their probe into whether the CIA tried to cover up torture by destroying interrogation tapes. Lawmakers from both pa.. Read More
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US House rejects water-boarding

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 14, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform
BBC News -- The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation techniques such as simulated drowning. The measure would require intelligence agencies to follow the rules adopted by the US Army, which forbid su.. Read More
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CIA Destroyed Tapes Despite Court Order

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform
New York Times -- The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics. Normally, that would force the government to defend.. Read More
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Congress wants CIA tapes answers

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform
MSNBC -- White House lawyers have advised President Bush's spokeswoman not to answer specific questions about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, as Congress seeks answers about the matter. The Justice Department and the CIA's in.. Read More
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George Bush, the Iraq war, CIA intelligence about WMD, George Tenet

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 12:08am neoform
Salon -- On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this i.. Read More
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Bush Approves New CIA Methods

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 21, 2007 @ 5:08am neoform
Washington Post -- President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law... Read More
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Bush admits administration leaked agent name

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 6:12pm neoform
MSNBC -- WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former Wh.. Read More
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Libby decision hides truth, CIA operative's husband says

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 11:30am neoform
CNN -- President Bush's decision to spare I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from prison puts Bush himself under suspicion of a cover-up in the CIA leak case, the husband of the operative whose name was leaked said Tuesday. "The president, by commuting Mr. Libby's sen.. Read More
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Senators Seek Legal Review of CIA Methods

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POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:05am neoform
Washington Post -- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has demanded a legal review of the CIA's detention and interrogation program for terrorism suspects as part of its version of the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill. In its report on the measure yest.. Read More
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Special Prosecutor Seeks 30 to 37 Months in Prison for Libby

POLITICS / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform
Washington Post -- Former top Bush administration aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should spend 30 to 37 months in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald contended in court documents filed yesterday. Libby, former chief of s.. Read More
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Senators want CIA to release 9/11 report

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 11:23am neoform
Yahoo News -- A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The CIA has spent more than 20 months weighing requests under the Freedom of Information.. Read More
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Officers: Ex-CIA chief Tenet a 'failed' leader

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:15pm neoform
CNN -- In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community," and called his book "an admission of failed leadership." The writers said Ten.. Read More
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Plame to testify as Dems open CIA leak hearings

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform
USA Today -- Democratic lawmakers are eager to hear from outed CIA operative Valerie Plame as they try to make political fodder out of the 2003 leak scandal. Plame was scheduled to testify before a congressional committee Friday, but it was unlikely the hearing wou.. Read More
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Plame suit puts heat on Cheney

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 9:40am neoform
The Australian -- US Vice-President Dick Cheney is expected to come under pressure over his role in the outing of Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent, when she testifies before Congress this week. It was Ms Plame's exposure - after her husband, Joseph Wilson, accused the.. Read More
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Will Bush pardon Scooter Libby?

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 11:57pm neoform
Yahoo News -- President George W. Bush has the constitutional power to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but will he do it? Democrats were immediately suspicious that he would, the White House was careful not to rule it out, and Intrade, an online prediction exchange on.. Read More
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Trial Spotlights Cheney’s Power as an Infighter

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 1:19pm neoform
New York Times -- A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush’s first term. The trial against Mr. Libby.. Read More
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