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By Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year remains active and has held at least one al Qaeda militant since then, a U.S. official said on Thursday.The official confirmed the detention as the White House skirted the question of whether the agency had resumed holding…
Attorney General Gonzales aide Monica Goodling resigns
ByMikaelAP – By Katherine Hunt Last Update: 5:27 PM ET Apr 6, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Monica Goodling, a top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has resigned, according to a media report on Friday. “I am hereby submitting my resignation to the office of attorney general,” Goodling said in a three-sentence letter, according…
Poll: 75% glad Bush is done
ByMikaelBy Paul Steinhauser CNN Deputy Political Director (CNN) — A new national poll suggests that three out of four Americans feel President Bush’s departure from office is coming not a moment too soon. Twenty-eight percent of those polled say President Bush is the worst president in U.S. history. Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a…
Bush offers to bomb Kurds
The Herald Sun THE Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq. The move would be an attempt to stave off a Turkish invasion of that country to fight the rebels. President George Bush spoke with Turkish President Abdullah Gul by phone yesterday in an effort to…
Nuremberg Prosecutor: Guantanamo “Violates Nuremberg Principles”
By Jane Sutton, Reuters The U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo have betrayed the principles of fairness that made the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg a judicial landmark, one of the U.S. Nuremberg prosecutors said on Monday. “I think Robert Jackson, who’s the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he…
Rice Blamed for Staff Shortage, Low Morale Among US Diplomats
By P. Parameswaran, Agence France-Presse Saddled by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US State Department faces an acute staff shortage amid “worsening morale,” according to a study blaming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the problem. The report by the influential Foreign Affairs Council, comprising mostly senior retired US diplomats and ambassadors, said…
