The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects. The memos were the first — and, for years, the only — tangible expressions of the administration’s consent to torture.
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On Tuesday, the Bush administration moved to accelerate Oil-Shale Development across the Rocky Mountain’s. Along with calls to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling & open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. According to Int. Secretary Kempthorne, shale deposits in Colorado, Utah & Wyoming could provide 800 billion barrels.
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WASHINGTON — Federal policy makers have concluded that the turmoil plaguing the housing and financial markets is likely to spill deep into 2009, becoming one of the most significant domestic problems to confront the next president when he steps into the White House in January. Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, publicly [...]