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AFP: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
Jan 5, 2009 WASHINGTON (AFP) US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the Central Intelligence Agency, a Democratic Party official told AFP Monday. In turning to a political heavyweight with no direct background in intelligence, Obama ...
Congress Knew About the Interrogations
online.wsj.com — PETER HOEKSTRA Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how... easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used ... (more) Congress Knew About the Interrogations
Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations
Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations
nytimes.com — President Obama spoke at C.I.A. headquarters as C.I.A. director Leon Panetta looked on.... (more) Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations
Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
propublica.org — ProPublica Last week, we pointed out that one of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that... the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called ... (more) Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
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