Ex-CIA Official Defends Detention Policies
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The recently retired deputy director of CIA operations Monday defended the legality of the CIA's interrogation and detention policies in Iraq and elsewhere, saying they were carefully vetted and approved by the National Security Council and disclosed to the appropriate congressional oversight committees.
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The former U.S. occupation chief in Iraq on Tuesday defended the way he haphazardly doled out billions of dollars in Iraqi funds after the U.S. invasion as Democrats began a two-year effort to scrutinize fraud, waste and abuse under the Bush administration.
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An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped off the streets of Italy by CIA agents in 2003 claimed Sunday that the Americans who abducted him "savagely" tortured him while deporting him to Egypt for interrogation.
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It seemed like a fair deal from the CIA: Spy for us and get lifetime financial support in the United States. But years after working as spies during the Cold War, a former Eastern-bloc diplomat and his wife, who now live in Seattle, say the U.S. government is trying to freeze them out.
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Dismissing charges that tactics used at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to torture, Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the military&#39;s coercion policies today in Indianapolis.
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Attorneys for a former detainee at a secret CIA prison said in a court filing this week that intelligence officials had falsely claimed in public statements that his interrogations were not videotaped, that all videotaped interrogations stopped in 2002 and that only a small number of CIA detainees...
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The CIA's former No. 3 official was charged Tuesday with accepting lavish vacations, private jet flights and a job offer from his best friend, a defense contractor who in return is suspected of getting inside information that helped him win agency contracts.
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An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped off the streets of Italy by CIA agents in 2003 claimed Sunday that the Americans who abducted him 'savagely' tortured him while deporting him to Egypt for interrogation.Comment
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. National Intelligence Director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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A European investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret "war on terror" jails in Eastern Europe.
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A former MP and critic of Pakistan's policies in Balochistan province "is in illegal detention".
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The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said Wednesday.
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A former CIA contract worker charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died admitted he assaulted the prisoner during an interrogation, a fellow agency employee testifying in disguise said Tuesday.
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Quotes from Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday on the nomination of Robert Gates, former CIA director, to be secretary of Defense.
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The Central Intelligence Agency director defended U.S. policies on interrogation and rendition of terrorist suspects to other countries on Friday, saying the program was blown out of proportion by critics.
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NEW YORK, June 14 -- A former detainee is allowed to keep former attorney general John D. Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and others in a lawsuit that alleges  prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal ap...
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The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service on Thursday justified a decision to bar a German resident held in Guantanamo Bay from returning to Germany, saying the man was still considered a security risk.