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Risen writes that with the White House's anything-goes mandate in place, everything went. While the NSA began monitoring communications of some Americans suspected of links to al-Qaeda--snooping on "millions of telephone calls and e-mail messages on American soil" in the process--the CIA set up...
Why? It turns out there were people who knew the answer but couldn't say, lest they blow the secret programs that were behind our current interval of safety. But now that the programs are blown, the Administration should stop being defensive about its secret prisons and intercepted communications. It...
The NSA intercepts are just one instance of the Bush Administration's effort to pursue the war on terrorism unhindered by some long-established legal norms. Most Americans agree that the government has to go after terrorists aggressively and with all appropriate means. Where they part company is on the...
BLACK SITES Places you don't want to get dragged into. The CIA has allegedly stashed terrorist suspects in these covert prisons in some eight countries since Sept. 11.
No one has had to suffer publicly the consequences of the CIA's handiwork more than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose European trip last week was dubbed the "Secret Prisons Tour" by some U.S. diplomats. After months of relative silence from the Bush Administration on the topic of torture...