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Late last year, CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged that in 2005 agency officials ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in the agency's secret overseas prisons. At the time, Hayden said that only a few prisoners were ever subjected to so-called special-interrogation techniques...
In 2005, CIA officials ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in the agency's secret overseas prisons. CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted that in December 2007 amid a public debate over the use of "waterboarding" on detainees and whether or not the technique - which simulates...
When we look at the upcoming match-up in Super Bowl XLII between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, it is almost too easy to start making Star Wars comparisons.Leading the sinister Galactic Empire, otherwise known as the 18-0 Patriots, is the Emperor Palpatine-Richard Nixon...
This year, travel has been particularly grueling, as some of the heaviest snowstorms in recent memory have wrought destruction and misery in 14 of China's provinces. The Ministry of Civil affairs announced on Monday that 24 people had died in storm-related accidents, including 10 in collapsed houses. On...
Another worrying aspect comes in the westerly shift of deforestation. Thursday's figures show a large increase in forest degradation in Rondonia, a remote state bordering Bolivia. Rondonia had avoided much of the destruction but the new figures show that deforestation there is almost equal to that in Para, a...