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Democrats Ignore Mukasey Plea for New Gitmo Law

The attorney general warns that Gitmo prisoners could go free on U.S. streets. The Dems aren’t buying it.

 

Plame Probe Stymied By Bush Privilege Claim

An unusual new privilege claim shields Cheney in Plame probe.

 

Bush Plans to Expand Spy Satellite Use

The Bush administration now wants to watch you from the sky.

 

The Taliban’s Great Escape

A daring prison break shows that Afghanistan’s militants are back—and as bold as ever.

 

Senate Report’s New Findings on Pre-War Deception

Buried in a Senate report, new revelations about pre-war deception

 

Terror Watch: New Report on FBI, CIA Interrogation

A new Justice Department reports faults the CIA’s handling of prisoner interrogation.

 

Iraq’s Chalabi Loses Post Over Ties to Iran

Is Iraqi double-dealer Ahmad Chalabi gone for good? Don’t bet on it.

 

The Pentagon, the CIA, and Secret Iran Meetings

Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?

 

U.S. Air Force: Entire crew killed in Guam crash

All six airmen aboard the B-52 bomber that crashed Monday off Guam’s northwest coast were killed, Air Force officials confirmed Wednesday.

 

Terrorism: Telecoms and Secret Surveillance

Telecoms and the Bush administration talked about how to keep their surveillance program under wraps.

 

Obama ‘deeply committed’ to helping Israel

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to maintain a close relationship between the United States and Israel.

 

N. Korea pressed to verify end of nuke program

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed her North Korean counterpart Wednesday to agree a plan for verifying its nuclear activity.

 

Nigerian militants: We’ll destroy oil pipelines

A Nigerian militant group issued a statement Wednesday saying it will destroy major oil pipelines “within the next 30 days” to disassociate itself from a government pipeline protection deal.

 

Terror Watch: The New Face of Terror

Is Al Qaeda recruiting Westerners to get past U.S. security?

 

Terror Watch: Canada Rejects CIA Evidence

Canada tosses CIA terror testimony obtained through waterboarding.

 

China Sets Zones for Olympics Protests

The Chinese government will permit public protests inside three city parks, but demonstrators must obtain permits and abide by laws that usually make political demonstration nearly impossible.


 

Extremist Cleric in Britain Moves Closer to U.S. Trial

An Egyptian-born Muslim cleric fighting extradition on terrorism charges failed in his bid to take the case to Britain’s highest appeals court in the House of Lords on Wednesday.


 


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