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Rice admits officials approved ‘harsh interrogation techniques’ therawstory David Edwards and Muriel Kane Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently became the first Bush administration official to admit that high-level discussions of the use of torture had taken place in 2002 and 2003. According to a written statement provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier…

By Tom Hamburger, The Los Angeles Times Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited…

Associated Press The city must disclose its arguments about why documents on police surveillance of protesters before the 2004 Republican National Convention should be kept confidential, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV in Manhattan said the court won’t consider a sealed affidavit by David Cohen, the New York Police Department’s…

By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff advised the CIA between 2002 and 2003 that its agents had the legal authority to use techniques that included waterboarding on one of the agency’s so-called “high level detainees,” according to a little-known report published in January 2005. That…