By Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year remains active and has held at least one al Qaeda militant since then, a U.S. official said on Thursday.The official confirmed the detention as the White House skirted the question of whether the agency had resumed holding…
Unionleader.com Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are pressing for information linking the executive branch to the 2002 New Hampshire “phone jamming” scheme. U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes commended the Democrats for their letter to Acting Attorney General Peter D. Keisler, which seeks details of any Department of Justice inquiries into the plot to tie up…
By Damon Poeter, CMP Channel When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor. The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records…
By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen, New York Times When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February…
