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George W. Bush Blew the Biggest British Terror Investigation Ever to Score Pre-Midterm Election Political Points... McCain '08!

Dan Brown | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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I saw Ron Suskind give a talk tonight at Politics and Prose in Washington on his essential new book The Way of the World . I tore through this book i...

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CIA Destroyed Tapes As Judge Sought Interrogation Data

Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

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The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was s...

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Judge On CIA Tapes: "It Boggles The Mind"

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...

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Lawyer: Goss Never Objected on CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Porter Goss never criticized plans to destroy interrogation videotapes, a lawyer said Thursday as the investiga...

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Congress Set For Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

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In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda opera...

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Judge Halts CIA Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration v...

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Ex-CIA Official Wants Immunity In Tapes Investigation

Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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Attorneys for Jose Rodriguez told Congress the former CIA official won't testify about the destruction of CIA videotapes without a promise of immunity...

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Campaign 2008: Will Torture Be on the Menu?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

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Will the presidential candidates be made to account for their position on waterboarding, torture, capital punishment, extraordinary rendition, and prisoner abuse?

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Former CIA Official May Seek Immunity In Exchange For Testifying In Tapes Scandal

Times of London (U.K.) | Sarah Baxter | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics

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THE CIA chief who ordered the destruction of secret videotapes recording the harsh interrogation of two top Al-Qaeda suspects has indicated he may see...

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Congress Subpoenas CIA Official Over Torture Tapes

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

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The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena Thursday for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who directed that secret interrogation videota...

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Bush Administration Going To Court Over CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

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A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida...

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Mukasey Won't Give Congress CIA Tape Details

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destructi...

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CIA Official Who Ordered Tapes Destroyed Lawyers Up

TPMmuckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

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Blink and you'll miss it in today's New York Times piece on the House's torture ban. But Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's ex-operations director who ordered ...

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