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

    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...

    Research articles 2008-05-12

    Tags: administration, CIA, media, White House

  • Source says torture OK'd from Cheney down

    WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a...

    Research articles 2008-04-11

    Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S. Department of Justice, White House

  • Cheney, other top officials signed off on interrogation tactics

    WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series...

    Research articles 2008-04-11

    Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S. Department of Justice, White House

  • White House to veto Senate ban on waterboarding

    WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "The president will veto that bill," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The United States needs the...

    Research articles 2008-02-14

    Tags: CIA, president, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S. Senate, White House

  • White House to veto Senate ban on waterboarding

    WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2008 AFP — US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "The president will veto that bill," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The United...

    Research articles 2008-02-14

    Tags: CIA, president, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S. Senate, White House

  • US could use harsh interrogations again: White House

    WASHINGTON AFP — The United States may use waterboarding to question terrorism suspects in the future, the White House said Wednesday, rejecting the widely held belief that the harsh practice amounts to torture. "It will depend upon circumstances," spokesman Tony Fratto said. "The belief that an attack might be...

    Research articles 2008-02-06

    Tags: attack, CIA, cloth, Government, president, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, technique, White House

  • White House emails on outed CIA agent 'are lost'

    :: USA White House emails from late 2003 and early 2004 - when the Bush administration was struggling to deal with an inquiry into the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity and the possibility of a congressional investigation into Iraq intelligence failures - may have gone missing....

    Research articles 2008-01-20

    Tags: agent, CIA, E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, White House

  • White House vows to cooperate with probe into CIA tapes

    WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said on Thursday it would fully cooperate with an investigation into the destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogations of terror suspects. "We will be cooperating with them on this investigation," spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters a day after the Justice Department announced a...

    Research articles 2008-01-03

    Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, White House

  • WHouse denies misleading in CIA video feud

    WASHINGTON AFP — The White House, under mounting pressure in the CIA's destruction of terrorism suspect interrogation videotapes, made an unusually aggressive push Wednesday to defend its handling of the controversy. Spokeswoman Dana Perino demanded, and obtained, a correction from the New York Times of a secondary headline that...

    Research articles 2007-12-19

    Tags: CIA, Government, lawyer, MARKETING, video, White House

  • Statement by the Press Secretary

    WASHINGTON -- The New York Times today implies that the White House has been misleading in publicly acknowledging or discussing details related to the CIA's decision to destroy interrogation tapes. The sub-headline of the story inaccurately says that the "White House Role Was Wider Than It Said," and the...

    Research articles 2007-12-19

    Tags: CIA, New York Times Co., White House

  • Mukasey On The Spot

    The CIA revealed last week that it had destroyed tapes of Al Qaeda detainees being questioned despite at least three official requests for evidence relating to the agency’s interrogation practices. The disclosure provoked demands for a Justice Department investigation, casting a spotlight on new Attorney General Michael Mukasey. A former...

    Research articles 2007-12-17

    Tags: agency, CIA, MARKETING, White House

  • Libby says he's dropping appeal in leak case involving outed agent

    WASHINGTON -- I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, announced Monday that he was dropping the appeal of his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case. The move comes five months after President Bush commuted the 30- month...

    Research articles 2007-12-11

    Tags: agent, CIA, conviction, Libby, Mr., White House

  • White House goes mum on CIA video case

    WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said Monday it would not answer questions about the CIA's destroying interrogation tapes of terrorism suspects, citing ongoing investigations into what some have called a cover-up. Spokesman Dana Perino said that US President George W. Bush's official lawyer had requested a no-comment policy...

    Research articles 2007-12-10

    Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, video, White House

  • US intel chief faces grilling amid torture claims

    WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA chief was grilled by US lawmakers Tuesday over the destruction of interrogation videos, as the White House insisted that the United States does not practice torture. Michael Hayden was being questioned behind closed doors by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee about his revelation...

    Research articles 2007-12-10

    Tags: CIA, tape, torture, U.S., White House

  • Clash with Congress brews after CIA's tape destruction

    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...

    Research articles 2007-12-08

    Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, U.S. Congress, White House

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