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...perhaps matter little to the West, compared with that of Libya and Algeria, whose mammoth energy reserves make them important strategic players. But Tunisia's crackdown against Islamic militants has made it a dependable partner in Washington's war on terror, and Tunisian intelligence officers provide "intense cooperation" with CIA and FBI agents, says Tahar Fellous Refaï, director general of external relations and international cooperation at Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior. In October the ripples from Tunisia's approach to human rights reached Washington: a federal judge ordered the U.S. government not to send a Guantánamo...
...Iraq Group] than there is reality,” he said. According to Card, the group’s role was to present information to the public consistent with Bush’s stance on Iraq by coordinating information between national security groups including the Department of Defense, the CIA, and the State Department.“Doesn’t it make sense to get together to say, ‘Okay, let’s not put press releases out on the same day that say things that aren’t consistent with the direction that...
...effort to change their built-in perceptions,” she says of Jewish students at Harvard. “It’s the kind of thing that Arabic students talk about—there are the people who study Arabic because they want to be in the CIA, and there are the people who study it because they feel sympathetic...
...hand.” Before Dowd’s speech, Alex S. Jones, the director of Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, awarded the third annual David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest. In 2005, Priest broke the story about secret CIA prisons in Thailand, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe used to interrogate terror suspects. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006, she co-wrote a story earlier this year detailing the neglect of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. According to Jones, the Nyhan Prize...
...does the Bush Administration work so hard to deny these detainees justice? Perhaps because habeas corpus proceedings could shatter the smokescreen they have built around the use of torture in CIA prisons. A Justice Department memo released last November spelled this out clearly: Terrorism suspects would be denied the right to meet with an attorney for fear that they might describe the methods of interrogation that had been used against them. How clever of our leaders, killing two birds with one stone: using an abrogation of one right to conceal the violation of another...