JENNIFER LOVEN, AP News The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives. President Bush could authorize waterboarding for future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, a spokesman said. A day earlier,…
By Paul Elias, Associated Press Bush administration lawyers cited national security concerns Tuesday in urging a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. last year in…
By MADDY SAUER and JUSTIN ROOD, ABC News A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq is headed for a secretive arbitration process rather than being able to present her case in open court. A judge in Texas has ruled that Tracy Barker’s case will…
US admits waterboarding terror suspects style=”width: 145px; height: 185px” height=”185″ alt=”watertorture.jpg” Wednesday, 6 February 2008 © 2008 Independent News and Media Limited Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators after the Bush administration admitted for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects. In congressional testimony, CIA…
