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...communications, its use of safe houses, codes, and the way al-Qaeda looks at the world. In other words, pretty much all low-level stuff. He said there were no dramatic confessions he knew of, the kind we see virtually every week in the popular TV show 24 that prevent a catastrophic attack in the nick of time...
...that the CIA was drawn haphazardly into abusive interrogation, haphazardly fell back on vague ideas of torture, and ended up with with the vaguest results. It all reflects a White House under extreme pressure after 9/11, giving orders to a compliant CIA to do something, anything, to try to prevent another such attack...
...attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what started out as a humanitarian mission into a mini war, in order to concentrate on a political - settlement that would prevent the country from falling apart after U.S. troops leave. To that end, Robert Oakley, Clinton's special envoy, met with five of Aidid's aides, though not the warlord himself. Afterward Oakley told reporters that Aidid wanted to be President of Somalia someday and . . . well . . . who knows? The buttering...
...intelligence wrung from terror detainee Abu Zubaydah (whom the CIA waterboarded "at least" 83 times, according to an an agency document released by the Obama Administration last week) led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks. His capture, in turn, helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then...
...weeks earlier, however, Attorney General Eric Holder told CBS News that his agency was still reviewing the Bush Administration's use of state secrets as an argument to prevent litigation. He said that the Justice Department was considering reversing the citing of state secrets in one of the three cases that had been reviewed so far, though he did not describe which case. Last Wednesday, during a speech at West Point, Holder strongly condemned the behavior of the Bush Administration. "We must once again chart a course rooted in the rule of law and grounded in both the powers...