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President Bush has issued an executive order weakening the Intelligence Oversight Board, which was created by the Ford administration following a Congressional investigation into abuses by intelligence agencies. Among the changes: the order "deleted the board's authority to refer matters...more »
Posted on March 14, 2008 9:54 AM
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Lawyers for Ali al-Marri, a detainee held at the Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina, will assert in court papers that al-Marri was systematically abused and informed that there were numerous videotapes depicting the FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency's handling...more »
Posted on March 13, 2008 10:37 AM
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The House, overcoming the objections of 23 Democrats and 159 Republicans, has finally passed a much debated ethics bill that will, for the first time ever, allow nonmembers to initiate investigations. The reform measure comes at time when two House...more »
Posted on March 12, 2008 10:03 AM
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The Antoin "Tony" Rezko trial has focused attention on a "vaguely worded" e-mail that alludes to Barack Obama's role in empowering a state health planning board that Rezko allegedly packed with associates - many of whom made political contributions to...more »
Posted on March 11, 2008 10:39 AM
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If only they had listened to Doug Feith. In a soon to be released "massive score-settling work" on the run-up to the Iraq war, Feith skewers Colin Powell, the CIA, Gen. Tommy R. Franks (who called Feith "the f***king stupidest...more »
Posted on March 10, 2008 10:19 AM
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Based on guidance by Bill Clinton and his reliance on President Bush's November 2001 order that expands former presidents' ability to keep internal White House records private, federal archivists will prevent public access to Clinton's papers on the 140 pardons...more »
Posted on March 7, 2008 10:22 AM
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FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted to Congress yesterday that his agency had improperly spied on Americans through the use of administrative subpoenas called national security letters. According to Mueller, a Justice Department report will soon document the agency's recurring invasion...more »
Posted on March 6, 2008 9:59 AM
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Lawyers for Omar Khadr, a Canadian who will be tried by a military commission in Guantanamo Bay on "charges that include murder, related to a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan that left a U.S. soldier dead," are investigating whether a video...more »
Posted on March 5, 2008 10:07 AM
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A high profile trial for two former high-ranking Shiite government officials accused of kidnapping and killing "scores of Sunnis" has ended abruptly, despite intense preparation for the trial and extensive evidence, because prosecutors dropped the case. A U.S. legal adviser...more »
Posted on March 4, 2008 9:55 AM
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Manfred Nowak, the torture investigator for the U.N., said yesterday that he has heard "credible" allegations that in 2002 and 2003 the U.S. detained terrorist suspects on the island of Diego Garcia, a British territory housing a joint U.S. and...more »
Posted on March 3, 2008 10:05 AM
