By JUSTIN ROOD, ABC News The Defense Department’s top watchdog has declined to investigate allegations that an American woman working under an Army contract in Iraq was raped by her co-workers. The case of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones gained national attention last month. An ABC News investigation revealed how an earlier investigation into…
A transcript of Cafferty’s segments: January 7, The Situation Room: JACK CAFFERTY: It’s time for Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney — so says George McGovern, the Democratic Party’s 1972 candidate for President. He wrote an editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post. He wrote that, “Although the chances of impeachment are unlikely, the…
CURT ANDERSON, AP News Jose Padilla has spent more than five years in custody, first as a purported “dirty bomb” plotter and then for allegedly being part of a support cell for Islamic extremists, including al-Qaida. This week, a federal judge will decide whether Padilla, 37, and two co-defendants should spend the rest of their…
By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the agency’s inspector general issued a classified report in the spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used on the prisoners “appeared to constitute cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment,…
