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Obama defends secret memo release to CIA employees (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees.

Obama, CIA chief patch up interrogation-memo rift (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:36 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama and his CIA chief buried differences on Monday over the release of classified documents on waterboarding, even as former Vice President Dick Cheney kept the debate alive.

U.S. Treasury targets head of China separatist group (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:55 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Treasury on Monday sought to cut off the flow of money to the head of a group considered responsible for killing more than a dozen Chinese police officers ahead of last year's Beijing Olympics.

US slaps sanctions on alleged terror leader (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 08:49 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration imposed financial sanctions Monday on an alleged terror leader accused of trying to carry out attacks at last year's Olympic Games in China.

Sept. 11 planner waterboarded 183 times: report (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the September 11 attacks, 183 times and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, The New York Times said on Sunday.

Official: Obama doesn't want interrogation charges (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:12 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama does not intend to prosecute Bush administration officials who devised the policies that led to the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday.

CIA waterboarded 9/11 mastermind 183 times (AFP) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 11:51 PM PDT AFP - CIA interrogators waterboarded Al-Qaeda's September 11 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and another terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, 83 times, The New York Times reported Monday.

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