The Associated Press House and Senate negotiators working on an intelligence bill have agreed to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which would effectively bar them from using such harsh methods as waterboarding, congressional aides said Wednesday. Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees decided to include the ban while working…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story A new National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday indicates that 16 US intelligence agencies have concluded with a high level of confidence that Iran has not had an active nuclear weapons program since 2003 and that even if it resumed weapons development, it would be unlikely to obtain…
Senate Judiciary Democrats Push Contempt Motion By Susan Crabtree, The Hill Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are pushing forward with a resolution holding the White House in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with their subpoenas for information and testimony related to the firings of several U.S. attorneys. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t A government watchdog group now says ten to twenty million White House emails, which may contain information about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA status, have been destroyed by the Bush administration. In a report from April, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics…
