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...Osama bin Laden, was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to Justice Department documents. Pelosi says she was never informed that the tactics described to her that day were employed - just that they were under consideration. "We were told specifically that waterboarding was not being used," Pelosi said Thursday...
...more money there than in Iraq, and approving the firing of the current U.S. commander, liberal Democrats are talking of giving him only a year to show progress. They fear the country could be sliding into a Vietnam-like quagmire, and the Democractic House caucus is already fraying: on Thursday, 51 of them voted against a $97 billion bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...
...close the Guantanamo prison next January, perhaps by holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely on U.S. soil. House Democrats are so upset with the fuzzy planning regarding what to do with the 240 detainees still at the Cuban base that they removed $80 million needed to shut it down from Thursday's emergency spending bill...
...accused. And in his self-professed desire to look forward rather than backwards, the President has spurned the calls of congressional Democrats for a "truth commission" to air the Bush Administration's dirty laundry. He and his aides know that letting these issues fester - as they did Thursday over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA had lied to her about the use of waterboarding - will consume all the political oxygen he needs for his own agenda...
...with the trial in Burma's commercial capital Rangoon closed to the public, few knew whether she wore her trademark flowers in her hair. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who's known in Burma simply as "the Lady," was dragged to the notorious Insein Prison on Thursday morning to face charges of disobeying the terms of her house arrest. On May 3, according to the Burmese state press, an American man illegally swam across a lake to Suu Kyi's waterfront villa and snuck into her compound for two nights. Foreigners are not allowed to stay overnight...