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 actions of a key figure in a controversy over destroyed interrogation tapes show the C.I.A.âs protective instinct.
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President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods.
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Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department&#39;s much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda
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A former top official in the State Department acknowledges he was the source who outed a CIA operative to reporters, but he says it was an accident and he's sorry.
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A former American soldier accused of kidnapping and torturing terror suspects in Afghanistan has told a Kabul court that the FBI is withholding hundreds of documents showing that he was working for the US Government.
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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.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft defended FBI interviews of some political protesters around the country before last month's Democratic convention in Boston, which critics described as an intimidation tactic.
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An ex-journalist who went to jail to protect a source testifies against that source in a high-profile Washington case.
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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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A former MP and critic of Pakistan's policies in Balochistan province "is in illegal detention".
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic  Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the  job.
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A former senior Australian cabinet minister has come to the defense of released Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, assailing the government for letting US authorities hold him and other terror suspects for years without charge on the basis of "doctored" intelligence.
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President Bush's nominee for CIA  director on Monday told senators who questioned whether he  would stand up to the White House that he would make sure the  credibility of the spy agency was not damaged by outside  political battles.
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The Republican congressman chosen by President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the job.
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The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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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.