C.I.A. Awaits Rules on Interrogation of Terror Suspects

New York Times by Mark Mazzetti | Mar. 25, 2007 (News Report)

A sharp debate within the Bush administration over the future of the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program has left the agency without the authority to use harsh interrogation techniques that the White House said last fall were necessary in questioning terrorism suspects, according to administration and Congressional officials.

The agency for months has been awaiting approval for rules that would give intelligence ... Full Story »

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 by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

This represents the "good digging" that reporters and editors should be doing. This is a story that could not have been done without sources who had been carefully cultivated and nurtured, and who probably spoke with no little sense of trepidation about their future should anyone reveal their cooperation with the Times.

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