Mike Sheehan, Raw Story Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding a special counsel with a “full investigative mandate” in the CIA destroyed tapes case, according to a press release. Responding to Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s announcement that an assistant U.S. Attorney would investigate the controversial case on behalf of the…
Matthew Lee, AP U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration’s pledge to boost them to roughly 1,000 per month, according to State Department statistics obtained by The Associated Press. For the third straight month since the United States said it would improve processing and resettle 12,000 Iraqis by…
By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t When Congress returns from its winter break in mid-January and continues its probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, the lawmakers may be interested in speaking to Mary O. McCarthy. McCarthy spent most of her career at the spy agency, most recently as…
