Sunday, August 09, 2009

SPB News for Sunday.

Criminal investigation into CIA treatment of detainees expected — Insiders say Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is close to naming a prosecutor to look into reports of excessive waterboarding and other unauthorized methods. Convictions could be hard to get.

Pakistan Taliban chief ‘not dead’

No new books for Calif. schoolkids

US Army finds Iraq electrocution death accidental The U.S. Army has found that the death of Staff Sergeant Ryan Maseth, who was electrocuted while showering at a Baghdad base in January 2008, was accidental, the Defense Department said on Friday. A Senate panel had said in May that the electrocution of Maseth, as well as three other soldiers and a contractor, was linked to wiring work carried out by engineering company and military contractor [terrorists] KBR Inc.

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