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CIA Won't Be Charged for Destroying Videotapes
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- No one at the Central Intelligence Agency will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes that showed suspected terrorists being waterboarded, the Justice Department announced today. After an "exhaustive" investigation spanning nearly three years, federal prosecutor John Durham has decided not to bring charges in the case, Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said today in a statement. Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's former head of clandestine operations, ordered the 2005 destruction of more than 90 tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd ...
Generals Fire Back at Dick Cheney
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- Two of the nation's best-known military figures are challenging former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration. Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, and Colin Powell, who chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as secretary of state, defended the president on Sunday morning talk shows after fresh attacks by Cheney and his daughter, Liz, at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ex-VP got into a TV duel with Vice President Joe Biden the previous weekend over the administration's approach to fighting ...
Top Dems Briefed on Interrogations in 2002
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn the escalating war of words over the Central Intelligence Agency's admission that it destroyed videotapes of terrorist interrogations, officials said Sunday that key members of Congress were briefed on the interrogation program and techniques in a series of briefings that took place in 2002. Among the group of select Congressmen present at the briefings was current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)Officials familiar with the briefings told the Washington Post that no formal objections were raised to the information presented. Former CIA Director Porter Goss said that, on the contrary, ...
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