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article.nationalreview.com - 4/22/2009
Editors: What the Memos Mean
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The 'torture' memos show an administration taking law and security seriously.
online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009
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

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Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
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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List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
propublica.org - 4/22/2009
List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
— propublica.org — ProPublica The CIA has not released the names of terrorism suspects it held in secret detention with... the exception of 14 who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, in September 2006. Human rights groups have tried to track those identities using publicly ... (more) List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing

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The Whirligig of Time
The Corner on National Review Online — ... , and here . We also need some Republicans leaders who have the courage and wisdom to push back against the mob. President Obama the post-partisan, uniquely unifying, let s-look-forward-and-not-backward candidate of hope and change has detonated a debate he may well lose control over and which may prove to be deeply divisive and embittering for America. More importantly, he has taken a series of steps that, particularly as it relates to our intelligence agencies and their capacity to protect Americans from mass death, he, and his countrymen, may well come to regret. We have ...

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