politico.com - 1/19/2009
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washingtonpost.com - 1/14/2009
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In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest,
Officials Say By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen Washington
Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 9, 2007; A01 In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program ...
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Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
salon.com - 1/18/2009
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) It seems fairly
easy -- even for those overtly hostile to the
basic rules of logic and law -- to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008 : Bush administration officials ...
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Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who ...
google.com - 1/16/2009
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google.com —
42 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama
is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and
harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials ...
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The Associated Press: AP Top News at 3:33 p.m. EST
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Will.I.Am Changes CIA Lyric For Inaugural Concert
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Anne Schroeder Mullins proves there is a news-worthiness to having an intimate awareness of the Black Eyed Peas catalog, as she catches Will.I.Am softening some of his lyrics on the occasion of the We Are One Inaugural Concert: ...
Fearless dissident artist censors his anti-CIA lyrics at Obama event
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... How do you speak “truth” to power when it’s your guy in power? You don’t. Behold the latest Obama tribute from will.i.am, now a rebel without a cause: One of the lyrics to the original version of that tune is this:“Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism. But we still got terrorists here livin’ In the USA, the big CIA The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK” That line likens the CIA to a terrorist organization. Apparently making such an incendiary charge with Barack Obama sitting just steps away was too much — after all, Obama will be in charge of the CIA as of tomorrow. So ...
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Obama Redacts His Rendition Position
patdollard.com 2/6/2009 —
Must’ve actually READ some of the daily shit Pres. Bush has been reading for the last eight years. Hey, Bam … break all mirrors in the White House. You’re about to go gray.
Just wondering here …
Think those Hollywood ...
Obama's No-Torture Order and CIA Secret Renditions
talkleft.com 2/12/2009 — Last week I wrote that the Center for Constitutional Rights questioned President Barack Obama's January 22 orders on interrogation and closing Guantanamo, cautioning that while they in no uncertain terms stated the CIA must close its secret black ...
"Truth Commission" a Go
minx.cc 2/28/2009 — The Church Committee destroyed the CIA's operations division for... well, forever. Let's see if we can't hit that mark again. The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if...
The Role of the CIA
lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/18/2009 — Spencer has some thoughts: And here's how it's problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they'll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there's some wiggle room in that ...
Don't Kill the CIA
WWW.samefacts.com 4/27/2009 — It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong. Let me suggest just a few reasons why:
Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 —
image courtesy of quapan
In another thread, Bob Schacht wrote ,
BTW, according to CNN, Haynes and Mukasey are claiming that “half” of what we “know” about Al Qaeda came from torture sessions. Did they really write that, and if so, I’m ...
What The CIA Did
politics.theatlantic.com 4/17/2009 — The Justice Department today
released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the
program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called
CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, ...
Graham: CIA Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, They Did Not
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/16/2009 —
I've got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. That was wrong (RawStory reported the number correctly, though). They gave erroneous dates ...
RE: Rendition
corner.nationalreview.com 2/3/2009 — Buried in that LAT article on rendition Jonah linked below is a flip-flop from Human Rights Watch that would impress even the East German judge. Here's Human Rights Watch in April of last year:
The US government should:
·Repudiate the use of ...
Black Iraqis make Obama a model to follow —
CNN Political Ticker 1/19/2009
Jalal Thiyab Thijeel quotes Barack Obama, saying it is time for change.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Their faces and darker skins make them look different. They are routinely called "slave" by the majority, whatever their profession. But Iraq's ...
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