CIA chief admits to 'waterboarding' suspects The director of the CIA admitted for the first time Tuesday that the intelligence agency had used "waterboarding", the controversial interrogation method, and named the three men subjected to it. "We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time," Gen Michael Hayden, the CIA director, told Congress
White House Requests $515 Billion for the Pentagon --Additional $70 Billion Is Sought to Fund Wars President [sic] Bush yesterday requested $515.4 billion for the fiscal 2009 Pentagon budget, a 7.5 percent increase from last year's spending request... The administration also sought an additional $70 billion in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraq Group May Attack Outside Nation, McConnell Says 05 Feb 2008 The terrorist group known as al-Qaeda in Iraq may try to attack targets around the world in response to US-led efforts to clamp down on it, the top US intelligence official said. [Here come the terrorist threats, just as it becomes obvious that a Democratic would otherwise win the general election.]
Britain's Prince Andrew attacks Bush over Iraq Britain's Prince Andrew launched a sharp attack on Tuesday on U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush for failing to listen to Britain during the conflict in Iraq.
Al Qaeda's invisible man keeps Iraq guessing --‘We have seen no pictures of him. We don’t have irrefutable evidence that he actually exists, but we don’t discount that there may be a man named Omar al-Baghdadi’ [a.k.a. the boogey man.] As Iraq prepares what it boasts will be its [hundredth] "decisive battle" against Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh], government forces face the challenge of tracking its shadowy leader, whose very existence has been called into doubt.
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