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...inquiry ordered by Attorney General Eric Holder into the CIA's enhanced interrogation program may eventually reveal how far agency personnel strayed beyond the guidelines set by Bush Administration lawyers when questioning hardened terrorists. The furor over the program, which reached its height in the fearful months after September 2001, is fraught with moral ambiguity. But there's also a colder, more practical question: Did harsh methods like waterboarding cause terrorist suspects to give up valuable, actionable intelligence...
...took place inside the Kirkland Annex and drew national media attention. They allegedly participated in what officials called a “drug rip” and were not Harvard students. Four ounces of marijuana were found near the body of the shooting victim. —Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu
...Eric Coss, a teenager in New York's Delaware County, managed to buy his first derby car, a little four-cylinder he decorated with markers, this summer for $150, plus $6 for parts. His reason for entering the county's Aug. 21 event was simple: "You can smash your car without getting in trouble...
...tough decisions. It has been widely observed that Obama overlearned the lesson of the Clinton health-care effort by deferring to Congress to write the legislation. It has been less widely observed that the President overlearned the lesson of Bush's hyperpoliticized Justice Department by leaving to Attorney General Eric Holder the decision about whether to investigate the CIA for torture abuses...
...Washington's "government-to-government" correspondence to be made public but reiterates "the United States Government's consistent and long-standing view that Mr. Megrahi should serve out his prison sentence in Scotland and the opposition of the United States to his transfer to Libya." U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made a grave and measured statement after al-Megrahi's release. "The interests of justice have not been served by this decision," he said. It seems probable that he expressed that view more trenchantly in a phone call to Scottish ministers; Washington has refused to release the transcripts...