Daily Archives: December 11, 2007 »
House Democrats Pull War Funding From Budget Offer
The GOP is negotiating in bad faith, Obey says. By Jonathan Weisman A Democratic deal to give President Bush some war funding in exchange for additional domestic spending appeared to collapse last night after
Read More »Iraqi Policewomen Told To Surrender Their Weapons
Los Angeles Times The Iraqi government has ordered all policewomen to hand in their guns for redistribution to men or face having their pay withheld, thwarting a U.S. initiative to bring women into the
Read More »Lawyer: CIA may have more interrogation tapes
White House tacitly approved destruction of CIA waterboarding tapes, former official says John Byrne Contrary to the official CIA line, the lawyer for a captured prisoner revealed that her client reported seeing videocameras in
Read More »CIA chief to appear before Congress
General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, is to appear before the US congress to explain why his agency destroyed video footage of interrogations. Hayden was going before a closed session of the
Read More »US soldier charged with murder heads to court
US soldier charged with murdering Iraqi civilians heads to court The Associated Press A U.S. soldier accused of murdering and assaulting Iraqi civilians was scheduled to appear in military court Tuesday in a hearing
Read More »The return of the ID card debate
The UK Government’s embarrassing loss of 25 million citizens’ personal details has reignited the ID card debate By Pete Swabey It was the most highly publicised data breach of all time. And when
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