FORT MEADE, Md. — An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot. James...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's Fiction About Whistleblower Complaint
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are making groundless accusations that a whistleblower complaint by a CIA officer was improperly filed because it was not based on first-hand knowledge. In tweets and public statements, they assert that a whistleblower cannot submit a complaint if it relies on so-called hearsay...
Court Calls US 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' Torture
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in San Francisco took the unusual step of using the word "torture" to describe the treatment of a Palestinian man while he was in CIA custody following the Sept. 11 attacks. The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco used the word in...
Dinner with Devin Has New Date. O'Canto Is in Hospice.
After a four-month delay, Congressman Devin Nunes will be the keynote speaker for the Fresno County Republican Party dinner Aug. 28. However, the location of the event will be kept hush-hush until “just prior to the event,” organizers say. Nunes will share the billing with Selma-based national political writer Victor...
US Air Force Warns Against Joke Event to 'Storm Area 51'
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people "storm Area 51," the top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert. A prank event on Facebook that's attracted more than 1 million interested people suggests that...
After Khashoggi Killing, Senate to Vote on US Role in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is debating a resolution calling on the U.S. to pull assistance from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, a measure that has won new support in the aftermath of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Senate voted 60-39 on Wednesday to open debate on...
Bush Saluted by CIA Comrades. Service Dog Sully Comes, Too.
WASHINGTON — The CIA honored its old boss, the only spy chief to become president, with visits to George H.W. Bush's flag-covered casket on Tuesday, joining members of the public who had lined up before dawn to pay respects to the 41st president in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Besides the...
Trump: Khashoggi Killing 'Had Worst Cover-Up Ever'
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the killing of a Saudi journalist was a botched operation and a "bad original concept" as his administration has taken its first steps in punishing the Saudis by deciding to revoke the visas of the suspects. Trump awaited a briefing Thursday from CIA Director...
How the West Can Help Iranians Take Back Their Country: Eli Lake
Posting support for Iranian protesters on social media is easy for everyone — including President Trump and two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism...
How the West Can Help Iranians Take Back Their Country: Eli Lake
Posting support for Iranian protesters on social media is easy for everyone — including President Trump and two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism...