A source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirms that Pelosi was told in February 2003 by her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, that waterboarding was actually used on CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah.
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Cheney ramps up attacks on both sides of the aisle
Far from a secure, undisclosed location, former Vice President Dick Cheney is out in the open and increasing his criticism on the Obama administration and even fellow Republicans. “If I don’t speak out, then where do we find ourselves … Then the critics have free run, and there isn’t anybody there on the other side to tell the truth,” Cheney said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday
Man who spent 22 years on death row is cleared
A former death row inmate in Tennessee has been cleared of murder, three years after the Supreme Court raised repeated questions about his conviction.
Suspected U.S. drone attack kills 9 in Pakistan
A suspected U.S. drone attack on a village in Pakistan’s tribal region killed nine people and wounded four others Tuesday morning, a Pakistani intelligence source and a regional official said.
Report: Suu Kyi’s doctor prevented from visiting
The doctor of Nobel Prize-winning democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi was barred from seeing her on Saturday, a spokesman for her party told CNN. Dr
How Stereotypes Defeat the Stereotyped
As explicit discrimination has receded in the last two decades, culminating in the elevation of an African-American to the Presidency, a woman to the House Speakership and a black woman to the galactic dominance known as being Oprah Winfrey, those who study the effects of racism and sexism have had to cope with a difficult question: If discrimination is less powerful, why do some groups in society continue to fare worse than others? Has bias merely become better hidden, or are there other forces at work
CIA says Pelosi knew about waterboarding; she says no
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is disputing a CIA account sent to Congress that raises questions about her insistence she was never told explicitly that waterboarding had been used on terrorist suspects. The CIA-prepared memo, provided to CNN by Republican sources, lists 40 briefings for members of Congress from September 2002 to March 2009. The first briefing on the list — on September 4, 2002 — was for then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss and Pelosi, then the ranking Democrat on the committee
My $4,500 Lemon: Taking the Feds Up on Cash For Clunkers
It’s official: our minivan is a toxic asset. The “toxic” part I knew already.
Only thing burning at Cher’s house is desire
When emergency crews scramble to a celebrity’s home and it turns out to be a false alarm, journalists don’t usually write about it. When the celebrity is Cher and her publicist issues an entertaining response to a reporter’s call, some entertainment writers can’t resist
U.S. man arrested for entering Suu Kyi home
About 20 police officers entered the tightly guarded home of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, a day after authorities detained an American swimming away from the property across a lake. “We heard about it this morning.