AFP The White House on Wednesday made a rare public demand for a formal correction from the New York Times for implying that it had misled the US public over the destruction of CIA interrogation videos. The US Justice Department, the White House, and US lawmakers have all launched probes after CIA chief Michael Hayden…
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne, Raw Story White House involvement in the CIA’s decision to destroy videotapes documenting severe interrogation techniques of suspected terrorists could constitute as many as six crimes, according to constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley. Turley appeared on CNN to discuss a new report from the New York Times, which indicates that…
By Peter Kaplan, Reuters The Federal Communications Commission narrowly approved on Tuesday a loosening of media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities, despite objections from consumer groups and a threat by some U.S. senators to revoke the action. The FCC voted 3-2, along party lines, to ease the 32-year-old ban on ownership of…
By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff advised the CIA between 2002 and 2003 that its agents had the legal authority to use techniques that included waterboarding on one of the agency’s so-called “high level detainees,” according to a little-known report published in January 2005. That…
