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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... intelligence the US government had on Al-Qaeda was discovered through detainee interrogations, Christopher Farrell from Judicial Watch told RT. “It hadn’t been previously produced in any other record,” he said. At the end of October, the US Justice Department released documents that revealed the FBI was investigating CIA prisons. On a 2002 visit to a CIA jail, officials found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock”.'Consensus' around Belgian PM for top EU job: diplomats ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/4/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... ‘Consensus’ Around Belgian PM for Top EU Job: Diplomats Brussels — “There is a consensus around his name, which is rare among the 27” EU nations, said one European diplomat. “No-one is opposed to him and many (leaders) are asking him to accept.” A second source echoed that stance, saying “no-one else can get unanimity” following informal discussions between EU heads of government and state at a two-day summit in Brussels last week. Centre-right van Rompuy’s spokesman Dirk De Backer issued a ...