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• CIA denies claim it hid tapes from Sept. 11 panel

  - 2007-12-23

  WASHINGTON -- The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. 11 commission the videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists, saying it waited until the panel went out of business before destroying the material now in question. The destruction in late...

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• CIA obstructed 9/11 investigators: report

  - 2007-12-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA obstructed an official US commission investigating the September 11 attacks by withholding tapes of interrogations of Al-Qaeda operatives, according to former panel members quoted in a report on Saturday. A review of documents by former members of the 9/11 commission revealed the panel made...

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• CIA obstructed 9/11 investigators: report

  - 2007-12-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA obstructed an official US commission investigating the September 11 attacks by withholding tapes of interrogations of Al-Qaeda operatives, according to former panel members quoted in a report on Saturday. A review of documents by former members of the 9/11 commission revealed the panel made...

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• How CIA Water-boarding Saved Lives

  - 2007-12-17

  Water-boarding Abu Zubaydah as a last resort to find out whai: he knew about pending terrorist plots was a justifiable act of self-defense. Two weeks before the Sept. 11,2001, attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission, a foreign intelligence service issued a report on the following topic: "Consideration by Abu Zubaydah...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, commission, SALES, U.S.

• The New Face: A Spy With Fresh Eyes

  - 2006-11-20

  How does the incoming Defense secretary really feel about the war in Iraq? At sessions of the Iraq Study Group over the past months, Robert Gates was careful not to show his cards. But on the commission's long flight home from a fact-finding mission to Baghdad in September, after several...

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• European team probing CIA lockups slams 'uncooperative' Poland

  - 2006-11-10

  WARSAW AFP — European investigators looking into allegations that the United States held terrorist suspects in secret detention facilities in Europe singled out Poland for failing to help the probe. "Nowhere have we seen such a lack of willingness to cooperate as in Poland," said Carlos Coelho, the Portuguese member...

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• McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 478 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1390-0 Publication Date: October 2005 Gerald D. McKnight has done an admirable job recounting the many contradictions and...

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• Irish rights watchdog wants CIA planes searched

  - 2005-12-23

  DUBLIN AFP — Ireland's human rights watchdog called for the government to seek the permission of the United States to inspect CIA planes believed to be transporting terror suspects. The Irish Human Rights Commission IHRC said it was "seriously concerned" about reports that US aircraft landing at Ireland's Shannon...

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• Warsaw refuses to publish inquiry into 'CIA prisons'

  - 2005-12-23

  WARSAW AFP — The Polish government has decided not to make public the results of an inquiry into the possible existence of United States CIA prisons on Polish soil, a spokesman said. "The report should not be made public," Jan Dziedziczak told AFP, refusing to give details and saying...

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• Bush's daily intel briefing revamped

  - 2005-08-25

  WASHINGTON -- The classified intelligence briefings President Bush gets daily have been revamped to include divergent opinions from more sources, incorporate the latest terrorism threats and reduce the role of the CIA. After the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the Iraq war, the briefs were criticized for...

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