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,…
By Steven Lee Meyers, David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, New York Times President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The debate is a response to intelligence reports…
US Judge Chastises Department of Justice By Jonathan Saltzman, The Boston Globe The chief federal judge in Boston has urged the new US attorney general to crack down on prosecutors who commit misconduct and to force Justice Department lawyers to be truthful in court. Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf, in an extraordinary letter to Attorney…
