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CIA chief jailed for kidnapping

The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” programme.

Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted of helping to organise the seizure of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu [...]

CIA chief jailed for kidnapping

The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” programme.

Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted of helping to organise the seizure of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu [...]

Bush takes swipes at Obama policies

Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration’s interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
“I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the [...]

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Pelosi hits out at CIA on torture claims

Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused the Central Intelligence Agency of misleading her about the use of “waterboarding” as she strove to fend off mounting Republican criticism that she had endorsed the harsh interrogation technique that she later criticised George W. Bush for approving.
At a chaotic press conference, the Democratic speaker of the US House of [...]

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CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Videotapes

The interrogations were a highly contentious issue during the administration of President George W. Bush, with many Democrats and other critics saying that some methods used amounted to torture _ a contention Bush and other officials rejected. A criminal prosecutor is wrapping up his investigation in the matter. ad_icon Monday’s acknowledgment, however, involved a [...]