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The American Civil Liberties Union will file a lawsuit today against former CIA director George Tenet and three American contractors challenging the CIA’s abduction of a foreign national for detention and interrogation in a secret overseas prison.
Valerie Plame, the diplomat's wife whose secret resume was exposed in a newspaper column that eventually led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is leaving the CIA on Friday.
Virgin Airlines is to offer frequent-flyer "Space Miles" that passengers can put towards flights in space with the company's soon-to-be-launched Virgin Galactic, boss Richard Branson revealed.
Rice reiterated her defense of US methods in the war on terror against 21st century militants. "If you don't get to them before they commit their crimes, they will commit mass murder," she said.
"There has been so much smoke on this issue, it's very unlikely that there is not a fire somewhere. I think it's likely they have been tortured."
Robert Seldon Lady, identified by Italian prosecutors and law enforcement officials as the retired station chief in Milan, is one of 22 current or former CIA operatives for whom Italian prosecutors have issued arrest warrants in connection with the 2
President Bush's adamant rejection of a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq effectively slams the door on a recent reported offer from Sunni resistance groups to eliminate the al-Qaeda terrorist haven in Iraq as part of a negotiated peace agreeme
If U.S. forces leave too soon, Iraq will become a haven for terrorists and the base of a spreading Islamic superstate that would threaten the rest of the world, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said
The training of Iraqi security forces has suffered a big "setback" in the last 6 months, with the army and other forces being increasingly used to settle scores and make other political gains, Iraqi Vice President Ghazi al-Yawer said.
The CIA's tip was a deliberate lie, part of a ruse designed to stymie efforts by the Italian anti-terrorism police to track down the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian refugee.
2 CIA secret prisons were operating in Poland and Romania until they were shut down following reports of their existence. The US scrambled to get the suspects off European soil to a CIA facility in the North African desert before Secretary Rice arriv
An increasingly heated debate over U.S. immigration policy is highlighting the country's deep dependence on illegal workers whose departure would cripple much of the U.S. economy.
President Bush pointed to faster-than-expected growth and other positive economic news in an effort to counter pessimism among Americans about the outlook for the U.S. economy.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assailed US news coverage of the Iraq war and accused journalists of rushing to find fault with the US and its military.
Television and cable industry representatives met on to try to address concerns about racier shows and head off possible government regulations.
A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader.
Civil rights groups have protested new rulings that make segregation of sexes in Iraqi schools compulsory. Education ministry has issued regulations under which mixed teaching even at university level will be forbidden. Already male teachers are not
On Sunday’s ABC This Week, Stephen Hadley acknowledged that President Bush has not yet ordered the shut-down of the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign in Iraq.
While "Duke" Cunningham pled guilty to taking bribes from defense contractors. Numerous current and retired CIA officials say they will not be surprised if the investigation touches the CIA in general, and its 3rd-ranking official especiall
Hillary Clinton has been an open supporter of the war in Iraq, she now finds just about everyone else in the Democratic Party beating the drum for a hasty retreat. With presidential aspirations, Clinton finds herself in the position of maintaining
The "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted that his party will propose a withdrawl of National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and al
House Democratic leaders will try to block any effort by members to adopt an official Democratic Caucus position on the Iraq war, recognizing such a move would highlight internal party differences and invite new political troubles.
Senator John Kerry (D-MS) called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's removal following Rumsfeld’s speech this morning on Iraq. Rumors are circulating that neocon Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) could be tapped to replace Rumsfeld.
Bush stated that Saddam was trying to procure uranium from "an African nation" as a preliminary step toward creating a nuclear weapon. This falsehood leaps out at one in its brazenness because it was based on a cache of forged documents: no
The Defense Department's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), certainly one of the more mysterious Pentagon agencies, and one that is at the center of the Defense Department's expanded programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intellige
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned the tables on European critics of tough U.S. tactics in the war on terror Monday, maintaining that intelligence gathered by the CIA has saved European as well as American lives.
On a trip to Scotland, some of Delay's expenses ended up on Abramoff's charge card; he used Abramoff's skybox at Washington's MCI Center for political events and his wife worked for a lobby firm that received client referrals from Abr
The U.S. Strategic Command announced it had achieved an operational capability for rapidly striking targets around the globe using nuclear or conventional weapons, after testing its capacity for nuclear war against a fictional country believed to rep
Troubled U.S. automakers and their allies on Capitol Hill are seeking billions of dollars in aid from the federal government ranging from health coverage for their workers to extra tax write-offs for themselves.
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is reporting that a new bill in Congress would override and weaken state anti-predatory lending laws that protect homeowners. Congressmen Ney (R-Ohio) and Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania) have introduced legislatio
