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...fight started after the release of a Justice Department memo showing that terror detainees were waterboarded hundreds of times. Pelosi then called for the formation of a truth commission to examine the legality of the tactics and whether those who justified and executed them should be held accountable. House Republicans protested, and Representative Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, warned in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed that Democrats should be careful what they wish for, as many of them were briefed about the tactics without complaint over the past seven years...
...inspires fans to tattoo his name onto their arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries to destroy middle America. Palahniuk talked to TIME about the new novel, how he accidentally offended the entire nation of Germany and what he really thinks of the Cult. (Read TIME's 2002 article about Chuck Palahniuk...
...most biting ironies of Sept. 11 was that the terror attacks led fearful authorities to ban visitors from the United States' most enduring icon of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. Though the pedestal and lower observation deck re-opened in 2004, the statue itself has been off-limits since the Twin Towers fell barely two miles away. Last week Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that, beginning July 4, 2009, intrepid tourists would again be welcomed into the statue and up the 168 narrow, twisting steps to the crown and its breathtaking views of New York Harbor...
...might have been up to something more dangerous than a people-smuggling scheme. That, Italian investigators say, allowed them to piece together material evidence alongside secretly recorded conversations between the two men that indicated that their intent at the time of their arrests had been to proceed towards eventual terror strikes in France...
...that reason, intelligence and police investigations continue in France, Belgium, Italy, other parts of Europe and other parts of the world, in nations whose involvement in the Afghanistan conflict has made them a target for terror...