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• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

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• War and indecision

  - 2008-06-16

  War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith (Harper, 688 pp., $27.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS book, an analytical description of a dysfunctional National Security Council and disloyal senior officials, will be studied for years by journalists, historians, and...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, Iraq, Pentagon, president

• Bush to veto bill banning the use of waterboarding

  - 2008-03-08

  WASHINGTON AP -- The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding -- a technique that simulates drowning -- and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability...

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• Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government

  - 2008-02-04

  Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government Shadow Warriors By Kenneth R. Timmerman Crown Forum, 2007 $25.95,416pp. Kenneth Timmerman's new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, is a potent assault on the enemy within. The late great U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...

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• Bush scolds Democratic Congress

  - 2007-12-21

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush, successful in forcing the Democratic Congress to bend to his will, complained Thursday that lawmakers had wasted time and taxpayers' money. His aggressive stand set a confrontational tone for Bush's final year in the White House. Bush used a year-end news conference to scold...

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• Judge defers ruling on Guantanamo tapes inquiry

  - 2007-12-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — A US judge has deferred ruling on demands by inmates at Guantanamo Bay for a court inquiry into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing harsh interrogations of terror suspects. Federal District Court Judge Henry Kennedy held a hearing Friday on whether the spy agency violated his...

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• Clash with Congress brews after CIA's tape destruction

  - 2007-12-08

  WASHINGTON AFP — The White House faced another clash with Congress Saturday after furious Democratic lawmakers demanded a probe into the CIA's destruction of tapes showing harsh interrogations of captured Al-Qaeda operatives. The Central Intelligence Agency's admission that it destroyed tapes of at least two interrogations in 2005, at...

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• U.S. doesn't torture, Bush says

  - 2007-10-06

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush defended his administration's methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects on Friday, saying both are successful and lawful. "When we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we're going to detain them, and you bet we're going...

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• Tilting at windmills

  - 2007-10-01

  The trap Senator Carl Levin recently added his voice to those demanding the removal of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's prime minister. This worries me, because Levin is one of the most respected Democrats in the Senate, and he has set a trap for himself. If al-Maliki is replaced, Levin...

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• Bush tightens interrogation rules

  - 2007-07-21

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. The White House declined to say whether the CIA currently has a detention and interrogation program, but said that...

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