Topic: Central Intelligence Agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticized President Barack Obama's ability to handle national security after the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogation abuses.Cheney, who has emerged as a vocal defender of Bush administration policies ...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that he has launched an investigation into the methods used by CIA operatives who interrogated suspected terrorists during the Bush Administration.. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who strenuously objected in May to President Barack Obama's ...
Criminal probe ordered as report says CIA used 'inhumane' tactics on terror suspectsThe Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children ...
Obama struggles to put Bush-era abuses of terror suspects behind him and move onAfter declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the ...
Attorney General Eric Holder today appointed a special federal prosecutor to investigate cases of torture, homicide, assassinations, harsh interrogations, secret imprisonment and other abuses at the CIA during the Bush administration. John H. Durham was investigating the CIA's destruction of evidence (videotapes ...
CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mother would be sexually assaulted, newly declassified documents revealed Monday as the government launched a criminal investigation into ...
The US attorney general is set to name a special prosecutor to probe CIA interrogators suspected of having violated anti-torture laws, US media said Monday.Eric Holder, America's top law enforcement official, will name veteran justice department prosecutor John Durham to examine nearly ...
The Obama administration is assigning a veteran prosecutor to begin a criminal probe of CIA questioning of terror suspects during the Bush administration, and a new detainee interrogation unit is being created to be supervised by the White House, officials said Monday.Federal ...
US President Barack Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, The Washington Post reported Monday.Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said the decision was part of a broader effort to revamp US ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, which could expose CIA employees and contractors to prosecution for their treatment of terrorism suspects, The New York Times reported on Monday.The recommendation, reversing the Bush administration, ...
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