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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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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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 [...]