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CIA Secret Prison Found

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - Nov. 18 (News Report) - "It obviously took a lot of effort to keep [the prison] secret," said John Sifton, whose firm One World Research investigates human rights abuses. "There's a reason this stuff gets kept secret." "It's an embarrassment, and a crime."

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Obama administration seeks to block wiretap suit

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Devlin Barrett - Oct. 31 (News Report) - The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping -- the first time the Obama administration has done so under its new policy on such cases. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision in a California lawsuit challenging the warrantless wiretapping program begun after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Official resigns over Afghan war

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last

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EPA Releases Bush-Era Endangerment Document

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Darren Samuelsohn, Robin Bravender - Oct. 13 (News Report) - U.S. EPA released a long-sequestered document on global warming today showing the George W. Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were endangering public welfare and needed to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

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Torturing 'does not get truth'

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 22 (News Report) - Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say. Professor Shane O'Mara of Trinity College, Dublin, said the interrogation techniques had a detrimental effect on brain.

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Todd S. Purdum on Henry Paulson

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - By Todd S. Purdum - Sep. 21 (Special Report) - Henry Paulson, then the Treasury secretary, in his office last September, the month Lehman fell and the bailout took shape. By Nigel Parry/CPi Syndication. It was February 2008, and Henry M. Paulson Jr., a prince of Wall Street turned secretary of the

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Sept. 11 Attacks Helped Shape Obama's Worldview

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Sep. 12 (News Report) - It was not hollow rhetoric. The attacks and the steps that the Bush administration took to prevent another one have defined the way Obama views the world and have influenced, more than any other event, his understanding of national security. That

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Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 04 (News Report) - A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history

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For Obama, interrogation fight won't be welcome

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Christi Parsons, Julian E. Barnes - Aug. 25 (News Analysis) - The White House had hoped to avoid a polarizing dispute over the CIA's tactics in questioning terrorists. It's likely to be a prolonged distraction from healthcare and other domestic priorities.

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Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Johnston - Aug. 24 (News Report) - The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff - Aug. 22 (Special Report) - Top Bush CIA officials, including Tenet's successors as CIA director, Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden, strongly lobbied for the IG report to be kept secret from the public. They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully for legal accountability," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That's already been done."

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Judge Rejects a Key Tactic in Terror Cases - NYTimes.com

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Lichtblau - Aug. 20 (News Report) - WASHINGTON — In a ruling that threw into doubt one of the government’s main counterterrorism tools, a federal judge said the Treasury Department acted unconstitutionally three years ago when it froze the assets of an Ohio charity suspected of aiding terrorists. The ruling challenged a key tactic used by the government under an emergency executive order signed by President George W. Bush two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. If upheld, the ruling could severely undercut the government’s authority and ultimately require it to get a warrant and submit to court review in moving against charities.

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Former Bush aide says politics colored US 'terror alert'

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Olivier Knox - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge charges in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush pressured him to raise the "terror alert" level to sway the November 2004 US election.

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C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help In Plan To Kill Jihadists

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Pamela Hess - Aug. 19 (News Report) - The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, a person familiar with the program said Wednesday.

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Canada court says its officials knew U.S. abused detainee

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Canada must seek the immediate return of Toronto-born Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr rather than await the outcome of his U.S. military trial because American troops mistreated the alleged teen terrorist and Canadian officials knew about it, Canada's appeals court ruled Friday.

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The Final Days of Merrill Lynch - The Atlantic (September 2009)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Aug. 14 (News Report) - On one level, the merger between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch is a simple story of executive hubris and cowardice. Leaving aside the question of whether [ BofA CEO] Lewis’s failure to publicly disclose new information—about Merrill’s losses, about his deal with [Bush regime treasury secretary] Paulson and [Federal Reserve chair] Bernanke—was legal, his passivity throughout the process was, in the eyes of some financial-industry insiders, contemptible.

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Cheney Uncloaks Frustration With Bush

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Barton Gellman - Aug. 13 (News Report) - Former vice president once praised the resolve of his former boss, but now, in discussing upcoming memoir, hints at a less flattering opinion of him.

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Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Barton Gellman - Aug. 12 (Investigative Report) - ’Statute of Limitations Has Expired’ on Many Secrets, Former Vice President Says

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US Battling CIA Rendition Case in 3 Courts | CommonDreams.org

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Bob Egelko - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts - in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London - to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay.

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Paulson's actions in crisis questioned

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, DON VAN NATTA Jr - Aug. 09 (News Report) - Seven months after Henry Paulson left office, questions are being asked about his part in decisions last fall to prop up the teetering financial system with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, including aid that directly benefited his former firm.

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During Crisis, Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Posed Ethics Test

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gretchen Morgenson, Don Van Natta Jr. - Aug. 09 (News Analysis) - Months after Henry M. Paulson Jr. left office, questions linger about the former Treasury secretary’s interactions with Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.Before he became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to hold himself to a higher ethical standard than his predecessors. He not only sold all his holdings in Goldman Sachs, the investment bank he had run, but also specifically said that he would avoid any substantive interaction with Goldman executives for his entire term unless he first obtained an ethics waiver from the government.

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Pentagon eyes accelerated bunker buster bomb

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jim Wolf - Aug. 02 (News Report) - The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large "bunker-buster" bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.

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The evidence Bush tried to hide

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By # Suzanne Goldenberg, Damian Carrington - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months. The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Bush-Era Debate - Using G.I.’s in U.S.

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Mazzetti, David Johnston - Jul. 25 (Breaking News) - WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials. Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the terrorism suspects, who came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, and declare them enemy combatants.

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Driven to Distraction: U.S. Withheld Data Showing Driving Risks

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jul. 21 (News Report) - In 2003, researchers at a federal agency proposed a long-term of study of 10,000 drivers to assess the safety risk posed by cellphone use behind the wheel.

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