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Federal judge extends deadline for government report on CIA tape destruction

February 14, 2008 05:41:00 PM

US District Judge Richard W. Roberts Thursday extended the deadline for the government to comply with an order issued last month requiring it to submit a report to the court by February 14...

February 7, 2008 08:41:00 AM

The federal judge presiding over the trial of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was seeking information about the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah around the time the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogations...

February 6, 2008 06:21:00 PM

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak sharply criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding , calling the practice "absolutely unacceptable under international human rights law." Nowak's comments, as...

February 6, 2008 11:30:00 AM

The White House Wednesday defended the use of waterboarding , saying that the technique is legal. In response to questions as to whether waterboarding constituted torture, White House spokesman Tony Fratto reiterated that the...

February 5, 2008 02:27:00 PM

The CIA has used waterboarding "on only three detainees" since September 11, 2001, CIA Director Michael Hayden told the US Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday. Stipulating that the interrogation technique has not been...

January 25, 2008 11:00:00 PM

Amrit Singh : ""Ours is a government of laws." "No one is above the law: not the executive, not the Congress, and not the judiciary." With these words, on September 15, 2004, a federal judge...

January 25, 2008 07:26:00 PM

Hanih Saleh Rashid Abdullah et al., v. George W. Bush et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 24, 2008 [ordering the government to submit a report detailing why the CIA destroyed video recordings of terrorist suspect...

January 25, 2008 02:24:00 PM

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that he does not plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects...

January 25, 2008 11:19:00 AM

US District Judge Richard W. Roberts on Thursday ordered the government to submit a report to the court by February 14 detailing why the CIA destroyed videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , whether...

January 18, 2008 07:53:00 AM

US House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has scheduled a hearing for mid-February to look into White House compliance with the Presidential Records Act and to investigate the contradiction between comments [press...

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