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What Really Happened in Ashcroft’s Hospital Room: The Battle For Secret Surveillance
Daniel Klaidman NEWSWEEK Issue dated Dec 22, 2008 It is one of the darkly iconic scenes of the Bush Administration. In March 2004, two of the president’s most senior advisers rushed to a Washington hospital room where they confronted a bedridden John Ashcroft. White House chief of staff Andy Card and counsel Alberto Gonzales pressured […]
MoreDick Cheney is Fairly Pleased With His Eight Bloody Years
Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 December 2008 01.19 GMT The outgoing US vice-president, Dick Cheney, last night gave an unapologetic assessment of his eight years in office, defending the invasion of Iraq, the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, secret wiretapping and the extreme interrogation method known as waterboarding. In his first […]
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