CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency records show CIA officers briefed lawmakers truthfully in 2002 on methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, but it is up to Congress to reach its own conclusions about what happened.
Panetta wrote that the political debates about interrogation “reached a new decibel level” with the charges.
Barack Obama warned Democrats in Congress against making a partisan cause out of the Bush administration’s harsh interrogation tactics.
So far, it’s Pelosi who’s suffered the greatest harm.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ignoring him loudly and the party, from the president on down, may pay the price.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror. But it’s not so clear who’s misleading whom.
The CIA’s records on the subject are vague. Here is a brief timeline of what the California Democrat knew when:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticized NATO’s exercises in Georgia and pushed for a new trans-Atlantic security treaty in remarks broadcast Friday.
The United States, Canada, the European Union, NATO and alliances of ex-Soviet nations must take part in forging a new security pact, Medvedev said in an interview with Russian state television, fragments of which were [...]
Thousands of U.S. gun owners gathering in Phoenix for the National Rifle Associations convention have one target firmly in their sights: any attempt to curb gun rights by the new guys in Washington.
The NRA is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country, with a long record of campaigning hard for gun rights [...]
An Obama administration official says the United States has released the Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle giving detainees the right to challenge their confinement.
The official said Lakhdar Boumediene left the U.S. naval facility in Cuba Friday headed to relatives in France.
The House Democrats bill to limit gases blamed for global warming generates a fraction of the money President Barack Obama needs to pay for a middle-class tax credit.
In his budget, Obama called for auctioning off 100 percent of the pollution permits, a strategy that would have raised nearly $650 billion over the next decade.
President Barack Obama took steps on Friday to revive the system of Guantanamo military trials for foreign terrorism suspects, angering supporters who believed he had promised to end the controversial tribunals set up by the Bush administration.
The administration also asked for a 90-day delay in court proceedings at Guantanamo to allow time for the new [...]
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he will provide $2.4 billion from the economic recovery package to speed up development of technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and factories that burn coal.
Chu said coal will remain an essential energy source. He said even if coal plants in the United States were shut down, [...]
The Washington Redskins won another legal victory Friday in a 17-year fight with a group of American Indians who argue the football team’s trademark is racially offensive.
The court agreed that the seven Native Americans waited too long to challenge the trademark first issued in 1967. They initially won the U.
