CBS News Some of America’s 25 million veterans face their biggest fight when they return home from the battlefield — when they take on mental illness. And, a CBS News analysis reveals they lose that battle, and take their own lives, at a clip described by various experts as “stunning” and “alarming,” according to Chief…
PAMELA HESS, AP News With Congress’ approval of a new attorney general who refused to describe waterboarding as torture, the U.S. Army has sent out a message to its leaders repeating that the interrogation technique is prohibited in the military. The service issued the Nov. 6 message “to eliminate any confusion that may have arisen…
By David Johnston and John M. Broder, New York Times Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, according to civilian and military…
By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, federal prosecutors revealed in a Nov. 9 court filing that was made public Tuesday. The disclosure is unlikely to undo Moussaoui’s…
