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U.S. Commandos scored a tactical victory against Al Qaeda by swooping into Libya and capturing Abu Anas al-Libi earlier this month, a former Bin Laden confidant and terror kingpin. Now President Obama must follow through with a strategic win.That means extracting valuable intelligence from al-Libi, whose name literally means “the Libyan,” about his two decades of terror insider experience as an Al Qaeda computer expert and co-conspirator of plots against U.S. interests. Al-Libi is believed to have been involved in plots across Africa and the Middle East, including against our Kenya and Tanzania Embassies in 1998 which killed 224 people.But getting that treasure trove of information depends on our strategy to pry it from a hardened warrior.And so far, the Obama administration is failing us.Here’s why:Instead of whisking al-Libi to Guantanamo where he could be interrogated by the military and CIA for as long as it takes to get actionable intelligence – and then try him by military commis...
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CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about the destructio...
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Reaction from former CIA officer Mike Baker
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly was told in February 2003 by her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, that waterboarding was used on CIA terror detainee Abu Zuba...
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite hi...
The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has save...
Aboard a Navy warship, U.S. investigators are likely playing good cop/bad cop, shouting and banging their hands on a table to get suspected al-Qaida operative Abu An...
The Justice Department has opened an internal investigation into whether its top officials improperly authorized or reviewed the CIA's use of waterboarding when inte...
Before you rejoice that the government has seized an alleged terrorist in Libya who was indicted for planning the notorious 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, bef...
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation...
WASHINGTON -- A former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration says he hopes he would have had the courage to resign if he had known the CIA was s...
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Two weeks into the partial government shutdown, the Obama administration is increasingly easing off some of its most painful cuts -- fueling the perception among cri...
Washington, 14 oct (EFEUSA).- El presunto cerebro de los ataques terroristas de 1998 contra las embajadas estadounidenses en Kenia y Tanzania, Nazih al Raghie, alias...
El presunto cerebro de los atentados de 1998 contra las embajadas estadounidenses en Kenia y Tanzania, Nazih al Raghie, alias Abu Anas al Libi, ya se encuentra en EE...
The Egyptian government said a U.S. citizen it detained in the Sinai Peninsula last month for violating curfew was found dead Sunday in his jail cell, the second for...
Steve Russell Boerner, certified archivist, who played a vital role in helping Brian with his book, George Washington’s Secret Six, talks about the journey of uncovering one of the most fascinating stories from the Revolutionary War.
A retired CIA agent who led the team that interrogated a key Al Qaeda operative early in the war on terror told ABC News that a technique commonly known as waterboar...