Liberty Star
07-12-2009, 09:33 AM
Or these issues suddenly coming back in news is just coincidence?
Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:29 UK
Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say.
CIA director Leon Panetta is said to have abandoned the project when he learnt of it last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146466.stm
Holder ‘leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate’ Bush admin’s torture policies.
In April, President Obama revised his position on whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s use of torture. After initially stating “that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards,” Obama said “that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters of various laws, and I don’t want to prejudge that.” Yesterday, Newsweek’s Daniel Klaidman reported that Attorney General Eric Holder “is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation practices”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071102994.html
Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:29 UK
Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say.
CIA director Leon Panetta is said to have abandoned the project when he learnt of it last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146466.stm
Holder ‘leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate’ Bush admin’s torture policies.
In April, President Obama revised his position on whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s use of torture. After initially stating “that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards,” Obama said “that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters of various laws, and I don’t want to prejudge that.” Yesterday, Newsweek’s Daniel Klaidman reported that Attorney General Eric Holder “is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation practices”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071102994.html