Holder, jog your memory
America will soon mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The replays of burning buildings and piercing screams will bring back jagged memories of that horrific day. This would be a useful time for U.S. Attorney General ...
 2.9K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 Ex-CIA officials question Blackwater s use
WASHINGTON When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot s...
7.7K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 179.0 House intel panel to probe secret CIA hit team plans
WASHINGTON (AP) The House Intelligence Committee said Friday it will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress promptly about a secret program to deploy teams of killers to target al-Qaida leaders. Committee Chairman Rep. ...
3.7K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 139.0 House intel panel to probe secret CIA hit team plans
WASHINGTON (AP) The House Intelligence Committee said Friday it will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress promptly about a secret program to deploy teams of killers to target al-Qaida leaders. Committee Chairman Rep. ...
3.8K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 207.0 Spinning distractions
It took them a while, but Republican thinkers and their media enablers appear to think they've found a way to turn the torture issue against Democrats. Enough tiresome rhetoric about the rule of law and America's lost moral compass. Let's take the di...
3.0K - May. 29, 2009; scored 179.0 Pelosi: Nothing more to say on CIA allegation
WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she won t talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects. I have made the statement that I m going to make on this, she told reporters ...
1.5K - May. 22, 2009; scored 139.0 Obama: CIA agents won't face charges
WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA operatives were allowed to shackle, strip and waterboard terror suspects. Now, President Barack Obama has assured these operatives that they will not be prosecuted for their rough interrogat...
6.1K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 179.0 Light on intelligence experience, CIA nominee and D.C. insider Panetta faces senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Intelligence Committee is taking up a hearing President Barack Obama s nominee for a high-profile national security post the surprising pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA. Going into today s public hearing, the former...
1.3K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 737.0 Obama announcing CIA, intel chiefs Friday; confirmation hearings will highlight human rights
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama is completing his national security team by announcing his unusual choices for CIA director and a national intelligence director who may face tough Senate confirmation questioning over how he confronted ...
1.7K - Jan. 9, 2009; scored 556.0 Wyden praises Obama intel pick
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama s selection of Leon Panetta to head the CIA has surprised those who expected him to pick an intelligence expert. But Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon says the former congressman and Clinton White Hous...
0.9K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 637.0 Obama makes picks for CIA, national intelligence
WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama s selection of an old White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over an intelligence expert. Obama s decision to name Leon Panetta to lead the premier U.S. intelligence agency s...
7.2K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
