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...dissolved into stagflation and Vietnam. In Latin America, a similar trajectory was under way, as the 70s transformed student-movements’ revolutionary energies into Pinochet’s military rule and Castro’s communism. The question for many artists at the time thus became how to probe the breach between the rich creative promise of the period and what it had actually become...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cortázar’s Playful Magnum Opus | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...contractors. The Bush Administration is more culpable than anyone at the CIA or in corporate America. Still, the point remains that it was political expediency - the White House's asking the CIA to do something it couldn't do - that has damaged CIA morale more than a DOJ probe that was the all but inevitable outcome of the Bush Administration's actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA and Interrogations: A Bad Fit from the Start | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...released Justice Department report indicating interrogators abused prisoners by, among other things, threatening to kill one man's family and choking another man to the point of unconsciousness. Durham, 59, is no stranger to top-level governmental investigations. In 1999 he was selected by Attorney General Janet Reno to probe law-enforcement corruption in Boston. Last year he was named by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to head the ongoing investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes. Colleagues say Durham is thorough and cautious in deciding whether a case deserves to be prosecuted. But once he fixes on a target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Abuse Investigator John Durham | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Abuse Investigator John Durham | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...know, I'm not the only person working on this case. Why don't you write about the others. They deserve credit." - Responding to a reporter's inquiry about the Boston mafia probe. (Hartford Courant, January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Abuse Investigator John Durham | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

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