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DHS issued report on extremism despite concerns (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.

Obama: No charges for harsh CIA interrogation (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing — and authorizing — such grim tactics as slamming detainees against walls, waterboarding them and keeping them naked and cold for long periods.

WTC office towers could be put off for decades (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - Construction of several ground zero office towers could be put off for decades because of the failing real estate market, the site's owners said Thursday, citing an analysis that projected one skyscraper might not be built and occupied until 35 years after Sept. 11.

Obama Says No Prosecutions, No 'Laying Blame' for Interrogation Techniques (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:01 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - President Obama said Thursday that he will not prosecute government agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists, and signaled he does not support any retrospective examination of how those techniques were developed and used.

Obama shields CIA interrogators from charges (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:24 PM PDT Reuters - CIA interrogators who used waterboarding on terrorism suspects will not face prosecution, President Barack Obama said on Thursday in releasing Bush-era memos specifying that the practice did not constitute torture.

Waterboarding, boxes and bugs used on suspects (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:54 PM PDT AP - A 2002 Bush administration memo argues that using waterboarding on terrorism suspects inflicts no pain or harm.

Obama's no prosecution vow meets resistance (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:56 PM PDT AFP - Civil rights groups reacted with dismay and disappointment Thursday over President Barack Obama's insistence that CIA officers not be prosecuted for the use of torture in "war on terror" interrogations.

Bush-era memo saw no-long term waterboarding harm (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:32 PM PDT Reuters - Waterboarding represented a "threat of imminent death" to a terrorism suspect but the interrogation technique did not constitute torture because there was no evidence it caused lasting mental harm, according to a 2002 U.S. Justice Department legal memo released on Thursday.

Obama: No charges against CIA for interrogations (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:21 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that CIA officials would not be prosecuted for having used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects under the Bush administration.

Obama: Memos' release required by law (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the release of legal opinions governing harsh questioning of terrorism suspects is required by the law and should help address "a dark and painful chapter in our history."

No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:01 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder says the government won't prosecute CIA officials for using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects.

Terrorists using Internet as a weapon: experts (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 11:20 AM PDT AFP - "Computer-savvy" terrorists are using the Internet as a new weapon but national authorities must be aware of individual rights when combating the threat, speakers at an international conference said Thursday.

Mumbai Terrorist Trial Gets Underway in India (Time.com) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 10:20 AM PDT Time.com - Accused Mumbai terrorist Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab whose trial began yesterday in Mumbai, was appointed a new lawyer today after his first lawyer was dismissed for a potential conflict of interest

Spanish AG: No torture probe of US officials (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 07:39 AM PDT AP - Spain's attorney general has rejected opening an investigation into whether six Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, saying Thursday a U.S. courtroom would be the proper forum.

New lawyer for Pakistani suspect in Mumbai attacks (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:32 AM PDT AP - The judge presiding over the first trial in the Mumbai terrorist attacks assigned the Pakistani defendant a new lawyer Thursday, a day after the trial was abruptly adjourned and the man's attorney dismissed for a conflict of interest.

Holder praises JAGs for work with terror suspects (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2009 12:05 AM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder praised military lawyers for representing terror detainees at the risk of their own careers and warned that government officials must rely on the rule of law even when they act in secrecy for reasons of national security.

DHS sec.: Request for Guard on border under study (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 08:08 PM PDT AP - On her first visit to Arizona as Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that requests to return the National Guard to duty along the U.S.-Mexico border are under review.

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