White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto Thursday dismissed allegations that millions of electronic messages prior to October 2003 had been deleted, saying the White House had found no evidence that any electronic data had been lost. Fratto told...
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White House admits to taping over pre-October 2003 e-mail records
The White House admitted late Tuesday that it had recycled its back-up computer tapes of e-mails prior to October 2003. US Magistrate Judge John Facciola ordered the White House earlier this month to report whether...
Conyers calls for special counsel in CIA interrogation videos probe
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging him to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency...
Ex-CIA official who ordered destruction of interrogation videos wants immunity for testimony
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the US CIA's clandestine branch who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , has told Congress that he will not testify about the videotapes without a...
UK prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against Dennis Pasquill, a civil servant in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office who was accused of leaking secret documents about CIA rendition flights to the New Statesman and...
Federal judge rejects inquiry into CIA destruction of interrogation videos
US District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. Wednesday refused to order an inquiry into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects . In denying the motion brought by...
Federal magistrate orders White House to confirm e-mail backup
US Magistrate Judge John Facciola Tuesday ordered the White House to report within five business days whether the millions of e-mails from 2003 to 2005 that have been deleted from White House servers in...
CIA proposed destruction of interrogation videos in 2003: Harman
The CIA made plans to destroy videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects as early as 2003, according to correspondence made public by US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) Thursday. In a February 2003 letter...
DOJ opens criminal probe into CIA destruction of interrogation videos
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects . The decision to launch a criminal...
The CIA obstructed the investigations of the 9/11 Commission by withholding videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects even though commission leaders had lawfully and repeatedly asked for information that would clearly be contained...