By Scott Shane, New York Times The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday questioned the continuing value of the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation program for terrorism suspects, suggesting that international condemnation and the obstacles it has created to criminal prosecution may outweigh its worth in gathering information. The committee rejected by one vote a Democratic…
By Henry Weinstein, The Los Angeles Times The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit Wednesday that accused a Boeing Co. subsidiary of helping the Central Intelligence Agency facilitate “the forced disappearance, torture and inhumane treatment” of three men the government suspected of terrorist involvement. “This is the first time we are accusing a blue-chip…
Minnesota Case Fits Pattern in US Attorneys Flap By Tom Hamburger, The Los Angeles Times For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases. By the time…
Patrick O’Connor, The Politico Tim Griffin, a former protege of White House political guru Karl Rove who replaced one of the controversially fired U.S. attorneys late last year, will resign his post as the top federal prosecutor in Arkansas on Friday,various news outlets in the state have reported. Aides to members of the Arkansas congressional…
