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POLITICS / NEWS Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama is scheduled to attend a Friday memorial service for seven CIA officers and contractors killed in Afghanistan in December... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Dec 5, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA's program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with missiles shot from pilotless planes, a U.S. official confirms... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Oct 31, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 31, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Friday that just-released CIA documents demonstrate the effectiveness of coercive interrogation techniques... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Aug 28, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Obama administration actually has me feeling sorry for the Central Intelligence Agency. This week, the administration hit the CIA with both barrels... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 24, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- CIA interrogators threatened an al Qaeda prisoner with a gun and an electric drill to try to scare him into giving up information, according to a report due to be made public today, sources told CNN... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 12, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress during the Bush administration on direct orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, current CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress, a knowledgeable source confirmed to CNN... Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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