Topic: Central Intelligence Agency
Internal CIA probe reveals more details about US treatment of terror detaineesAs the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to-be-released report by the CIA's inspector general reveals that agency interrogators ...
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration has engaged in a host of controversial counterterrorism actions that threaten civil liberties and even the physical safety of those targeted: To justify otherwise unlawful policies, President Bush and his lawyers have espoused an extreme ...
Former AG Gonzales says he'd 'do some things over,' including 'quaint' memoFormer U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could " The uproar over the firings led to a series of revelations about the Bush administration's political meddling with ...
The article presents the author's views on Democrats in the U.S. Congress who are criticizing the practice of " Well, it is no more absurd than the indignation vented in early December by assorted eminences in Congress. It now turns out that ...
Judicial Watch sues CIA to get records of congressional briefings on terror interrogationsThe conservative group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to get access to the CIA's records of congressional briefings on terrorism interrogation techniques.Judicial Watch says it's trying to discover the ...
New disclosures suggest secret CIA program borne of rash decision-making More information is being learned about a CIA program created after 9/11 that was kept hidden from Congress until last month when the agencys director, Leon Panetta, first learned of it and ...
According to a report published in New York Time on July 11, CIA was ordered to hide a secret counter terrorism programme from Congress for almost eight years during the Bush administration. This order was issued by former Vice-President Dick Cheney. He ...
Liz Cheney declines to say whether father ordered CIA to conceal secret program from CongressVice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz said Tuesday she doesn't believe her father did anything wrong in connection with a secret CIA operation that officials have said was ...
Panetta canceled CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders up closeA secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air ...
Democrats push for probe into Bush anti-terror policies, despite Obama's reluctancePresident Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren't likely to let the matters rest. , said Sunday.Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., head of the ...