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Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) says judges should weigh executive privilege.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) says judges should weigh executive privilege.

A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a lawsuit by five former detainees who sued a Boeing subsidiary over its alleged role in transporting them to foreign countries, where they say they suffered brutal interrogation under the CIA's "black site" prison system.


Military reservists may be asked to volunteer to fill many of the hundreds of additional U.S. civilian positions in Afghanistan called for in the Obama administration's strategy for that nation and neighboring Pakistan, officials said yesterday.


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Harsh Methods Approved as Early as Summer 2002:  Holder Declassifies Timeline of Actions by Top Bush Administration Officials Regarding Interrogation (Post, April 23, 2009)

Latest CIA Scandal Puts Focus on How Agency Polices Self (Post, March 20, 2009)

Senate Panel Agrees on Blueprint for Review of CIA Treatment of Terrorism Suspects (Post, March 6, 2009)

Former Top CIA Official Sentenced to 37 Months (Post, February 27, 2009)

New Pentagon Policy Says ‘Irregular Warfare' Will Get Same Attention as Traditional Combat (Post, December 4, 2008)

Bush Inflated Threat From Iraq's Banned Weapons, Report Says (Post, June 6, 2008)

HUNTING AL-QAEDA:  Unilateral Strike Called a Model For U.S. Operations in Pakistan (Post, February 19, 2008)

Pakistan Is Threatened, Intelligence Chief Says (Post, February 6, 2008)

Who's on the Line? These Days, It Could Be Everyone (Post, August 12, 2007)

Nominee Defends Ending Programs:  Kerr Testifies About Satellite Contracts (Post, August 2, 2007)

Al-Qaeda's Gains Keep U.S. at Risk, Report Says:  Safe Haven in Pakistan Is Seen as Challenging Counterterrorism Efforts (Post, July 18, 2007)

CIA Releases Files On Past Misdeeds:  Assassination Plots, Domestic Spying Cited (Post, June 27, 2007)

CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry:  Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed (Post, June 22, 2007)

CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action (Post, May 10, 2007)

Intelligence Chief Decries Constraints:  Update of Surveillance Law Urged (Post, May 2, 2007)

Intelligence Community to Reshape Personnel Practices (Post, April 12, 2007)

Suspecting Leak, Chairman Suspends Panel Staffer:  Democratic Aide to House Intelligence Committee Was Flagged by GOP Member Based on 'Coincidence' (Post, October 21, 2006)

Intelligence Plan Targets Training, Keeping Personnel (Post, October 19, 2006)

Negroponte Highlights U.S. Successes:  Intelligence View That War Is Increasing Terror Is 'Fraction of Judgments,' He Says (Post, September 25, 2006)

CIA Learned in '02 That Bin Laden Had No Iraq Ties, Report Says (Post, September 15, 2006)

Report Details Errors Before War (Post, September 9, 2006)

Senate: No Al-Qaeda, Saddam Ties:  Links Were Cited to Justify U.S. Invasion, Report Says (Post, September 9, 2006)

CIA Director Picks a No. 3 and Shifts Roles:  Hayden Says the Change Will Let Him Focus on Agency's Mission (Post, July 12, 2006)

Hoekstra Urges Bush to Impart Intelligence Details (Post, July 10, 2006)

Lawmakers Push to Stay in the Loop (Post, July 10, 2006)

Bush Is Pressed on Reporting Domestic Surveillance (Post, July 9, 2006)

USA Today Takes Back Some of NSA Claims (Post, July 1, 2006)

Government, Media to Pay Wen Ho Lee $1.6M:  News Organizations Pay To Keep Sources Secret (Post, June 3, 2006)

Senate Panel Split Over Questioning Phone Company Executives (Post, May 27, 2006)

Hayden Distinguishes Himself From Goss:  CIA Nominee's Testimony May Have Been for Agency as Much as for Lawmakers (Post, May 21, 2006)

Hayden Urges CIA Critics to Refrain:  Nominee Defends U.S. Surveillance (Post, May 19, 2006)

Nominee Has Ability To Bear Bad News:  Some Senators Unsure He Will Use It With Bush (Post, May 19, 2006)

Ousted CIA No. 3 Is Target of Raids:  Foggo's Home and Langley Office Swept in Corruption Probe (Post, May 13, 2006)

CIA Pick Open to Wiretap Oversight:  Hayden Tells Senators He Also Would Consider Retiring From Military (Post, May 11, 2006)

Ex-CIA Official Defends Ties With Contractor (Post, May 11, 2006)

No Power Play, Rumsfeld Says:  Pentagon Chief Defends General's Nomination to Be CIA Director (Post, May 10, 2006)

CIA Official Quits; FBI Probes Role in Defense Contracts (Post, May 9, 2006)

Hayden Is Pick for CIA; Ex-Official May Be No. 2 :  Official Who Quit Under Goss Would Be Hayden's No. 2 (Post, May 9, 2006)

Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle:  General May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Plans (Post, May 9, 2006)

Transcript:  Bush Nominates Michael V. Hayden to Head CIA (washingtonpost.com, May 8, 2006; 9:58 AM)

Likely Nominee for CIA Post Faces GOP Doubts:  Gen. Hayden Is 'Wrong Man,' Hoekstra Says (Post, May 8, 2006)

Analysis:  The Fix-It Man Leaves, but The Agency's Cracks Remain (Post, May 6, 2006)

Fired CIA Officer Denies Leaking Classified Data:  Official Says Agency Is Not Asserting She Told of Secret Prisons (Post, April 25, 2006)

Negroponte Cites Intelligence 'Innovation' (Post, April 21, 2006)

Intelligence Office Gives Progress Report (Post, April 14, 2006)

Patriot Act Primer (washingtonpost.com, March 15, 2006; 2:51 PM)

U.S. Targets Zawahiri (Post, January 14, 2006)

Intelligence Probe Takes Shape:  Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq (Post, November 10, 2005)

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations:  Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight (Post, October 24, 2005)

List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some:  White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats (Post, October 23, 2005)

A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil:  Congress to Ask Why Spy Unit Continues to Lose Personnel (Post, October 19, 2005)

Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps:  Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper's Editors Regarding Leak (Post, October 17, 2005)

CIA Spies Get a New Home Base:  Agency Will Set Up the National Clandestine Service (Post, October 14, 2005)

Times Reporter Testifies Again in CIA Leak Probe (Post, October 13, 2005)

Freed Writer Testifies:  N.Y. Times' Miller Tells Grand Jury About 2003 Talks With Cheney Aide Libby (Post, October 1, 2005)

Reporter Judith Miller Released From Prison (washingtonpost.com, September 29, 2005; 8:31 PM)

U.S. Argues for Power To Detain Padilla:  Case of Man Held 3 Years Without Trial Focuses Attention on Administration's Anti-Terror Policies (Post, July 20, 2005)

Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence (Post, August 10, 2003)

CIA Had Fix on Hussein:  Intelligence Revealed 'Target of Opportunity' (Post, March 20, 2003)

U.S. Reaps New Data On Weapons (Post, March 20, 2003)

U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations:  'Stress and Duress' Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities (Post, December 26, 2002)

U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis:  Analysts: Chemical May Be VX, And Was Smuggled Via Turkey (Post, December 12, 2002)

CIA Officer's Body Brought Home to Family (Post, December 3, 2001)

CIA Reports Officer Killed in Prison Uprising:  Ex-Marine Was Interviewing Prisoners When Non-Afghan Taliban Fighters Began Revolt (Post, November 29, 2001)

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