Word: documents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bush Administration approved the use of "insects placed in a confinement box" during the interrogation of top Al Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2002 document that President Obama declassified for release Thursday...
...that - for reasons unrelated to any concerns that it might violate the [criminal] statute - the CIA never used the technique and has removed it from the list of authorized interrogation techniques," wrote Steven Bradbury, a principal deputy assistant attorney general, in the footnote to a on May 10, 2005 document. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has admitted that U.S. interrogators used waterboarding on three detainees, including Zubaydah...
...President. According to the declaration, "Mr Ghappour left my office at that point but subsequently returned with a heavily redacted memorandum ... Mr Ghappour asked me if the PRT could review this memorandum. Because this was a very unusual submission, I asked him what the point of reviewing such a document would be. He replied that he wanted to use the memorandum to demonstrate to Mr Mohamed that he (i.e., Mr Ghappour) was working on Mr Mohamed's case." The PRT member says that on the basis of "Mr Ghappour's stated rationale," the memo was marked "unclassified." Its subsequent publication...
...training that Capt. Phillips had given them before their latest trip. They said they were kept on the ship well after it arrived at port in Mombasa after escaping the pirates, not only because the ship was classified as a crime scene, but also so that the crew could document the precise steps they took to rebuff the attack, which they refused to disclose to reporters. (See the top 10 audacious acts of piracy...
...Greenberg's lawyers, Lee S. Wolosky, said the document appears to reflect the work of outside firms, representing a possible misuse of government funds. "I understand using a public relations firm as a place for reporters to call for basic information about the company and its current plans," he told TIME. "But when you're using taxpayer money to fund a campaign that attacks specific individuals by name, that is particularly egregious. Even if the screed was done entirely in-house, it still constitutes a questionable use of taxpayer money, since the in-house staff is essentially government employees. There...