The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations – As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the frequency and severity of their use, contradicting an 2007 ABC News report, and a new focus on two private contractors who were apparently directing the brutal sessions that President Obama calls torture.
Justice Souter To Retire From Supreme Court – Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President Obama, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court’s more liberal bloc over the past two decades.
Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail – As the U.S. and other economic powers devise ways to overhaul financial regulations, they have yet to come up with plans to address one issue at the heart of the crisis: the role of the rating firms.
Stanford ’surrenders’ to feds who didn’t want him – DeGuerin said he brought his client to the federal building because he wants to make it clear Stanford is available to authorities. The lawyer said he wants to avoid a “perp walk,” where an accused person is arrested and escorted in handcuffs before the media. “A perp walk will be adverse to his right to a fair trial,” said DeGuerin.
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