The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, alleging he violated nondisclosure agreements by publishing a memoir without giving the government an opportunity to review it first. The Justice Department is seeking to ...

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FBI “exercised remarkable caution and candor” in securing search warrants that led to espionage charges against a former CIA employee, prosecutors have told a federal judge presiding over the case. Prosecutors said a court hearing is not necessary to reject ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder, armed with newly disclosed evidence that terror suspects were mistreated during the Bush administration, took the first step toward possible prosecution of CIA interrogators who may have crossed the line separating harsh questioning from illegal abuse. ...

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A few days after hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Center, reporters asked President George W. Bush about his plans for Osama bin Laden. “There’s an old poster out West,” Bush replied. It says, “Wanted, Dead or Alive.” Ten ...

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The American people are ambivalent about intelligence - demanding more of it only when they're frightened. That's the opinion of a former director both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency William H. Webster spoke to a group of people attending the 2009 Corporate Anti-Terrorism Conference this week at Washington University School of Law. Webster was a judge on the U.S. District Court in St. Louis from 1970 to 1973, when he was named to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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House Democrats blocked a Republican push for a bipartisan investigation of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the Central Intelligence Agency misled her in 2002 about interrogation tactics used on suspected terrorists. Democrats voted down a Republican resolution seeking to start ...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she learned in early 2003 that terrorism suspects were being subjected to waterboarding, and she accused the Central Intelligence Agency of misleading Congress earlier about the interrogation technique. Pelosi, trying to fend off Republican attacks ...

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When high-ups at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters ordered the torture of Abu Zubaydah, they thought he had been withholding valuable information. There was no ticking time bomb, and no one ever claimed there was. They just thought he knew more ...

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The Obama administration ruled out prosecution of government interrogators as it released censored versions of legal memos that guided harsh questioning of terror suspects by the CIA under President George W. Bush. The memos show that Justice Department lawyers authorized ...

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The Central Intelligence Agency destroyed 92 videotapes of interrogations of suspected terrorists, government lawyers said in a letter to the U.S. judge overseeing a fight over the records. Amrat Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union in New ...

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A unit of Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, faced an appeal court hearing over claims it falsified flight plans to disguise the CIA’s delivery of suspected terrorists to secret prisons where they were tortured. A lawyer for the ...

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