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talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/14/2009

Something Not Adding Up

— talkingpointsmemo.com — The New York Times is also reporting now that the secret Bush-era CIA program kept from Congress and terminated last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta was a plan to assassinate top al Qaeda officials that was never implemented. This is additional ... (more) Something Not Adding Up

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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/13/2009

CIA Vet: Agency Doesn't Need Secret Program To Target al Qaeda

— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Earlier today, we raised a few questions about the notion that the secret CIA program that Dick Cheney reportedly withheld from Congress concerned an effort to kill or capture al Qaeda leaders. And now a top counter-terror expert is doing the same. ... (more) CIA Vet: Agency Doesn't Need Secret Program To Target al ...

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npr.org - 7/13/2009

Former CIA Director: No One Told Me Not To Tell Congress

— npr.org — Hayden during a March 30, 2008, appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images for Meet the Press By Mark Memmott The man who ran the CIA from 2006 through January says he wasn't told by then-vice president Dick Cheney not ... (more) Former CIA Director: No One Told Me Not To Tell Congress

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Judge Orders 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture Released by Aug. 24
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled this morning that the CIA will have until August 24 to release a declassified version of the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture, a report that documents abuse so disturbing it reportedly brought Attorney General Eric Holder to the point of authorizing a torture prosecutor. Two weeks ago, the department filed paperwork, contested by the American Civil Liverties Union, to delay a long-scheduled release of the report by August 31. Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/51099/judge-orders-200...

CIA Gets Extension Until Aug 24 On Torture Report
TPMMuckraker — ... According to Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent, a judge has said the CIA can have until August 24 to release the declassified version of a 2004 inspector general's report on the Bush administration's interrogations program. The report's release has ...

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Daily Kos — ... A federal judge has ordered that the 2004 CIA IG report, the one that the Justice Department has been delaying the release ofs, be released on August 24. The Justice Department basically wins, since they requested an August 31 date, and the ACLU wanted it immediately. Seems likely that the ongoing requests by DoJ to delay it might have something to do with the fact that it is reportedly so horrific that it pushed Eric Holder to consider torture prosecutions--perhaps the delay has been part of those deliberations. ...