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04 24th, 2009| 
AFP – The White House and its top US Senate ally poured cold water on hopes of creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely seen as torture. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
24
AFP – Pentagon chief Robert Gates on Thursday urged Congress to support his proposed defense budget, warning against wasteful spending that he said would come at the expense of soldiers on the frontline of the Afghan war. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AFP – The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AFP – China insisted on Thursday it was opposed to Internet crimes, following a US media report that said Chinese hackers may have been behind a cyber attack on computers linked to a new US fighter jet. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AFP – A top US Senator said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AP – Raytheon Co.’s quarterly profit rose 14 percent on stronger sales of missiles, radars and defense electronics, spurring the nation’s fifth-largest defense contractor to raise its 2009 earnings forecast. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AFP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday travels to a military base in North Carolina to visit US Marines preparing for combat against insurgents in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
23
AFP – The CIA first requested in May 2002 to be allowed to question terrorism suspects with a near-drowning technique known as waterboarding, according to a document made public on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
22
AP – The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA’s early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
22
AFP – The CIA’s harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda detainees provided “valuable” information but are not needed to keep America safe, the US intelligence chief said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »