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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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• Transcripts sought in CIA leak probe

  - 2008-06-28

  WASHINGTON -- A House panel on Friday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for transcripts of interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney during the federal probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., the subpoena requests all documents...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, identity, U.S. Department of Justice

• 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

• 'Frontline' retraces path of 'Bush's War'

  - 2008-03-22

  NEW YORK AP -- Join "Bush's War" in marking a dismal anniversary. This two-part "Frontline" documentary begins with the 9/11 attacks. Then, step by step, it moves toward the Bush administration's shock-and-awe response. With Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein successfully branded Public Enemy No. 1, the invasion of Iraq...

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• House override of Bush veto fails

  - 2008-03-12

  WASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. The vetoed legislation would have limited the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation methods...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, PRODUCTIVITY

• Bush draws fire after veto of torture ban

  - 2008-03-09

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, president, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S.

• 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...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, PRODUCTIVITY

• 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...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Bush, CIA, Government, Iran, Iraq, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, Syria, U.S.

• CIA tapes row to get US court airing

  - 2007-12-21

  WASHINGTON, Dec 20, 2007 AFP — A row over the destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogations of terror suspects goes to court Friday when the US spy agency may have to show it did not break a judge's order. US District Court Judge Henry Kennedy has summoned lawyers for...

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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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