Some in Congress suspicious over anthrax details
A month after the FBI declared that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not...
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Conflict over NSA tied to data searches
A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current...
Bomb suspects asked about U.S. work
Two of the doctors arrested in connection with the bungled London and Glasgow car bomb attacks had made preliminary inquiries about practicing medicine in the United States, an American law-enforcement...
Libby, Cheney won’t testify in perjury trial
Lawyers defending Lewis "Scooter" Libby against perjury charges told the court Tuesday that they would rest their case this week without putting on the stand either Libby or Vice President...
CIA officer fired over prison leak
The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's...
Closing of lab marks renewed intensity in anthrax probe
FBI anthrax investigators have closed some high-security laboratory suites at the Army's biodefense research center at Fort Detrick, apparently searching for scientific evidence as the third anniversary of the unsolved...
Civilian interrogator denies promoting physical abuse of Abu Ghraib prisoners
An American contract interrogator at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison described in January interrogation tactics that included a "Sleep/Meal Management Program" using sleep deprivation and diet manipulation to try to get...
Inquiry targets Va. contractor at Iraq jail
The inspector general of the Interior Department has opened an inquiry into why the department approved the hiring of interrogators to question Iraqi prisoners under a contract for computer services,...
Some U.S. prison contractors may avoid charges
The U.S. civilian interrogators questioning prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq work not under a military contract but on one from the Department of the Interior, a bureaucratic twist...
Abu Ghraib understaffing noted by U.S. commander
In the latest sign that troop shortages might be undermining the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the top U.S. commander in the region acknowledged yesterday that too few guards were assigned...