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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A former CIA agent who participated in interrogations of terror suspects said Tuesday that the controversial interrogation technique of "waterboarding" has saved lives, but he considers the method torture and now opposes its use. Ex-CIA...

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com Posted on December 5, 2007, Printed on December 11, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/69582/ Another utopia seems to be biting the dust. The socialist kibbutzim of Israel have vanished or gone increasingly...

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com Posted on December 10, 2007, Printed on December 11, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/70104/ Iowa is not like other states. There's fuck-all to do here, and unless you just love dirt or barnyard sex, you could easily...

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted November 24, 2007. Surging Mike Huckabee may talk about poverty and trade, but the wild-eyed Baptist goofball doesn't believe he is evolved from primates. Does that even worry Republican voters? Mike Huckabee,...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal judges have the discretion to give "reasonably" shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder. Lawyers argue that crack-cocaine...

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Published: 10 December 2007 Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA agents that they say show their client suffered...

By Matt Renner t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 05 December 2007 A government watchdog group now says at least ten million White House emails, which may contain information about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA status, have been destroyed...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The deputy intelligence chief tried Thursday to squash any suggestion that the newly released assessment on Iran's nuclear weapons program indicates Iran is less of a threat. President Bush tells reporters Tuesday that Iran still poses...

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ittle Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike...