JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush’s secretive eavesdropping program. “When the Senate comes back in the session, I’ll bring it up before the committee,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy,…
By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post The American Psychological Association ruled Sunday that psychologists can no longer be associated with several interrogation techniques that have been used against terrorism detainees at U.S. facilities because the methods are immoral, psychologically damaging and counterproductive in eliciting useful information. Psychologists who witness interrogators using mock executions, simulated drowning, sexual…
By Logan Murphy, Crooks and Liars Following Karl Rove’s appearance this morning on “Meet The Press” David Gregory (who is involved in the Plame scandal. More on that later.) held a round table discussion which included former Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper. Cooper, who was dead center in the Valerie Plame scandal, stops just short…
CBS News American doctor Dave Warner is on a mission in eastern Afghanistan to show people back home how billions of taxpayer dollars sent here are being wasted. “When I was here in December,” Warner told CBS News chief forign correspondent Lara Logan. “This was full so you can see they’ve dug another pit over…
