Posted on October 16, 2008 by Michael Thomas
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), accused the White House on Wednesday of withholding documents showing it authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other tough interrogation tactics on suspected terrorists.
Rockefeller was reacting to a report in Wednesday’s editions of The Washington Post that two White House memos, in 2003 [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by Michael Thomas
From HS Daily Wire:
DHS has reached an agreement with the state of Michigan to enhance the security features of the state’s driver’s license, which may serve in the future as an acceptable alternative document for crossing the United States’ land and sea borders.
The Michigan agreement, similar to those reached with Washington, Vermont, Arizona, and New York [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by Michael Thomas
From the Associated Press:
For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been acting chief of the ATF, while also fulfilling his official position as U.S. Attorney, managing the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston.
In August 2006, Sullivan was appointed acting director of the ATF. He was nominated by President Bush for the permanent job [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by Michael Thomas
From CQ Politics:
President Bush, in signing the defense policy bill Tuesday, issued a statement indicating he reserves the right to heed or disregard four of its provisions as he sees fit. So-called “signing statement” typically assert the limits of Congress’s power over the executive branch.
Every president since Ronald Reagan has repeatedly engaged in the practice, [...]
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DHS cybersecurity proposals more modest than DNI comments suggested
From HS Daily Wire:
Earlier this year Director of U.S. National Intelligence Mike McConnell said the government would require broad powers to monitor all Internet traffic in order to secure the U.S. critical information infrastructure; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff outlines a more modest approach.
Earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told the New Yorker [...]
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