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Papers detail FBI, CIA struggle over detainees

By doris | Published: October 31, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA over how to treat high-value prisoners. Details of the interrogation were contained in documents released late Friday as part of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by [...]

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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Oversight lacking on war costs

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at  Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, apparently sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defense contractor named Combat Support Associates, [...]

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Congress ready to punish Iran if diplomacy fails

By doris | Published: October 5, 2009

Full Story atmsnbc.com WASHINGTON – Congress is poised to act swiftly on new penalties against Iran if international talks on Tehran’s nuclear program show signs of faltering. And this time lawmakers are talking about trying to block gas and refined petroleum exports to Iran, possibly causing serious disruptions in the lives of ordinary Iranians. “If [...]

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Bill Clinton: ‘Vast right-wing conspiracy’ as ‘virulent’ as ever

By doris | Published: September 28, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Clinton was asked about the term his wife Hillary Clinton, now secretary of state, famously coined. “Is it still there?” host David Gregory asked. “Oh, you bet. Sure it is. It’s not as strong as it was, because America’s changed demographically, but it’s as virulent as [...]

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Clinton praises Obama for tough stance on Iran

By doris | Published: September 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The terms of the negotiations will make or break the talks, Clinton said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Now that Iran knows its nuclear facilities have been discovered, discussions might be worthwhile, Clinton said. Clinton compared it to past negotiations with Iraq. “It’s just like Saddam Hussein when he [...]

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Liberal Dem blasts ACORN

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) – A leading liberal Democrat in the House blasted the embattled community organizing group ACORN Wednesday and said he is urging the White House to withhold any federal funding for the group. “I am very disappointed in the actions that were taken by members of ACORN,” Massachusetts Rep. Barney [...]

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Could George W. Bush end up behind bars?

By doris | Published: September 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s extremely unlikely, but the Obama administration is taking its first steps along a path that could lead in that direction, with the investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogators involved in the war on terror. “You don’t know where these things are going to end up,” former CIA agent Peter Brookes [...]

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Bill Clinton makes unannounced N. Korea visit

By doris | Published: August 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea on Tuesday on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance. North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator and a high-ranking [...]

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Health care overhaul clears divided Senate committee

By doris | Published: July 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The 13-10 vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee split along party lines, with its top Republican arguing it costs too much and would ration care to Americans. But Sen. Edward Kennedy, its chairman, said, “We have done the hard work that the American people sent us here [...]

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Republicans, Democrats trade barbs on alleged CIA wrongdoing

By doris | Published: July 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The latest round of accusations came one day after seven House Democrats released a letter claiming that CIA Director Leon Panetta — on the job less than five months — told Congress the CIA has repeatedly concealed information and misled lawmakers since 2001. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, said it appeared House [...]

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CNN Poll: Americans don’t want to intervene in Iran election crisis

By doris | Published: June 30, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that that nearly three out of four Americans don’t want the U.S. directly intervene in the election crisis in Iran even though most Americans are upset by how the Iranian government has dealt with protests over controversial election results. More than eight in [...]

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Elizabeth Edwards breaks silence on affair

By doris | Published: May 6, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com “I have seen a picture of the baby. I have no idea. It doesn’t look like my children, but I don’t have any idea,” she said in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey to air Thursday. Winfrey’s Harpo Productions Inc. provided CNN with several preview clips. John Edwards admitted in August [...]

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