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Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
librarygrape.com - 10/26/2009
Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
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This was done in all of our names and we should all, individually, be deeply and profoundly ashamed: We were receiving CIA intelligence. MI-6 and the CIA share all their intelligence. So I was getting all the CIA intelligence on Uzbekistan and it was saying that detainees had confessed to ...
thehill.com - 10/28/2009
Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times
— thehill.com — The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House... Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. (more) Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times

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cnas.org - 10/28/2009
The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
— cnas.org — Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai... at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying ... (more) The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read ...

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Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/28/2009
Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — The CIA misled Congress about its torture program and other issues, the House Intelligence committee has concluded... . In a hearing of the House Intelligence committee this afternoon, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, both Democrats, pointed to ... (more) Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues

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