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• Top-level torture: the Bush administration admits to condoning acts that most people would deem torture. Now we know that the administration determined how the tortures were to be carried out

  - 2008-06-09

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A hidden bomb will detonate in an hour, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. You have the bomber in your power. Do you torture him to discover the device's location? The Principals Committee answered "Yes" to the classic "Ticking Time Bomb Scenario." And what is...

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• Why Oppose Media Shield if You Don't Prosecute Leakers?

  - 2008-05-12

  Reporters aren't doctors or priests, but Congress is considering raising their legal status to similar level by creating a legal "shield" for journalists to protect confidential sources. The Bush Administration is lobbying hard against it. It's not at all clear that any "shield" is needed, but why the administration is...

  Tags: administration, CIA, media, White House

• U.S. editorial excerpts -7-

  - 2008-03-02

  NEW YORK, Feb. 27 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: BETTER TREATMENT FOR ALLIES (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) It's old news that the Bush administration cut legal and ethical corners in its post-9/11 war on terrorism. Now we know that the administration...

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• Shielded by secrecy

  - 2008-02-19

  OF THE MYRIAD TACTICS the Bush administration uses to prevent oversight of its controversial anti-terror policies, none has been more successful, or more far-reaching, than the state secrets privilege. Last Wednesday, the Senate considered, at long last, bipartisan legislation that would place reasonable limits on the executive branch's use of...

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• World briefs: Setback for Bush regime

  - 2008-01-25

  USA: A US judge says he wants the Bush administration to explain within three weeks why CIA interrogation videos were destroyed and whether other evidence was done away with. Several judges are considering wading into the dispute over the videos, but US District Judge Richard Roberts was the first to...

  Tags: administration, CIA, Judge, MARKETING, video

• Let Congress, courts probe CIA tapes case

  - 2007-12-26

  THE Bush administration has taken a heads-we-win, tails-you-lose approach to the scandal over the destruction of CIA interrogation videos. First, the Justice Department asked a federal court to halt a pending inquiry partly because Congress was already looking into it. Then it turned around and urged Congress to shut down...

  Tags: administration, CIA, U.S. Congress

• Let Congress, courts probe CIA tapes case

  - 2007-12-26

  THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION has taken a heads-we-win, tails-you-lose approach to the scandal over the destruction of CIA interrogation videos. First, the Justice Department asked a federal court to halt a pending inquiry partly because Congress was already looking into it. Then it turned around and urged Congress to shut down...

  Tags: administration, CIA, U.S. Congress, videotape

• CIA tapes sparking turf battles

  - 2007-12-16

  WASHINGTON -- The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation tapes is shaping up as a turf battle involving the courts, Congress and the White House, with the Bush administration telling its constitutional co-equals to stay out of the investigation. The Justice Department says it needs time and the freedom...

  Tags: administration, CIA, Government, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Justice

• Ex-White House spokesman faults Bush in CIA leak scandal

  - 2007-11-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — A former White House press secretary has accused President George W. Bush of misleading the public over a CIA leak which blew the cover of one of their spies and rocked the US administration. Scott McClellan, who was Bush's chief spokesman between 2003-2006, says in an...

  Tags: administration, aide, Bush, CIA, Iraq, MARKETING, president, White House

• Bar Association criticizes interrogations order

  - 2007-08-12

  SAN FRANCISCO -- President Bush's recent order on CIA interrogations of terror suspects should be overturned because it still allows harsh treatment in violation of international treaties, two American Bar Association committees say. The CIA should follow the same rigorous standards adopted by the military that are intended,...

  Tags: administration, CIA, Government, terrorism