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U.S. Detainee Policies Under Growing Fire
The secret prison system set up by the United States to hold suspects in the war on terror was under critical new scrutiny on every side Wednesday. And the controversy appeared linked to widespread and growing speculation that U.S. Vice … Continue reading
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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons – Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 2, 2005; A01 The CIA has been hiding and … Continue reading
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428 Civilian Contractors Killed in Iraq
Civilian contractors in Iraq dying at faster rate as insurgency grows By Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 1, 2005 WASHINGTON – As the nation focused last week on the 2,000th U.S. soldier who died in Iraq, Gloria Dagit of … Continue reading
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Remember That Mushroom Cloud?
November 2, 2005, New York Times Editorial Board Remember That Mushroom Cloud? The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the … Continue reading
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Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors
Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors By CARL HULSE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times, November 2, 2005 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 – Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session on Tuesday over the Bush … Continue reading
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Powell aide describes foreign policy cabal
In President Bush’s first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of … Continue reading
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Top Cheney Adviser Indicted on Five Felonies in CIA Leak Probe
A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s identity but spared — at least for now –President Bush’s top political strategist, … Continue reading
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Vice President for Torture
VICE PRESIDENT Cheney is aggressively pursuing an initiative that may be unprecedented for an elected official of the executive branch: He is proposing that Congress legally authorize human rights abuses by Americans. “Cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of prisoners is … Continue reading
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US Told to Give Data on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to provide medical records on Guantanamo prisoners who are being force-fed while on a hunger strike and to notify their lawyers about forced feedings. U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler acted … Continue reading
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Dick’s War on Saddam
Dick’s War on Saddam In August 2002, Dick Cheney was doing his best to shock the nation into action by Craig Gordon, Newsday, October 26, 2005 WASHINGTON — It was the last week of August 2002, and the Bush administration’s … Continue reading
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