washingtonindependent.com - 1/15/2009
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My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate Leon Panetta about whether he played any role in ordering terrorism suspects to be kidnapped extrajudicially and sent to other countries ...
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
washingtontimes.com - 1/15/2009
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By: NavyBrat Jaeger & ataloss. Well said, both
of you. It just goes to show that Slick...
Willie II(Obama) has really got no clue about anything relating to what type of enemy we face in Islamic fanatics. I also could really care less about WHO started ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Panetta faces rendition queries
washingtonindependent.com - 1/23/2009
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It's Hypocrisy, But Answer The Question
Newshoggers.com —
... involvement in the Clinton administration's illegal rendition activities.
Put aside the glaring hyypocrisy of rightwingers suddenly deciding such renditions might be a bad thing after protesting vigorously for eight years that they were an essential and excusable tool in the War On Some Terror. Put aside the hypocrisy of leftwing pundits who are suddenly using the term "extraordinary rendition" where before they had no problem calling an illegal spade a spade.
It's still a good question.
Panetta should face questions like ...
It's Hypocrisy, But Answer The Question
Crooks and Liars —
... in the Clinton administration's illegal rendition activities.
Put aside the glaring hypocrisy of right-wingers suddenly deciding such renditions might be a bad thing after protesting vigorously for eight years that they were an essential and excusable tool in the War On Some Terror. Put aside the hypocrisy of leftwing pundits who are suddenly using the term "extraordinary rendition" where before they had no problem calling an illegal spade a spade.
It's still a good question.
Panetta should face questions ...
DOJ Torture Investigation Can Implicate Obama and Clinton Admin
Flopping Aces —
... , claims to have personally arranged renditions himself when he was President Clinton’s Chief of Staff. President Clinton’s Counterterrorism Czar, Richard Clarke, will have to testify to the extraordinary renditions he admits he personally authorized. ...
DOJ Torture Investigation Can Implicate Obama and Clinton Admin-UPDATED
Flopping Aces —
... , claims to have personally arranged renditions himself when he was President Clinton’s Chief of Staff. President Clinton’s Counterterrorism Czar, Richard Clarke, will have to testify to the extraordinary renditions he admits he personally authorized. ...
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