google.com - 4/23/2009
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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 ...
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
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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 ...
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Congress Knew About the Interrogations
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
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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 ...
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Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
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newshoggers.com 2/7/2009 — By Cernig
The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers .
Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case."
It was ...
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