All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

AP:

Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations.
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The Boston Globe:
Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. ( read the article)

Tampa Bay:

The U.S. Secret Service confirmed Monday that it has opened an investigation into local radio talk show host Bob Haa following a number of complaints about his Friday morning broadcast. (read the article)

The Guardian:
A businessman who was held and mistreated in the United Arab Emirates following the London bombings believes he has evidence that British consular officials asked permission from the UK's own security services to visit him while he was detained. (read the article)

Washington Post:
Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the initiative and schedule a pair of closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.
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The Guardian:
The true depth of British involvement in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas and the manner in which that complicity is concealed behind a cloak of courtroom secrecy was laid bare last night when David Davis MP detailed the way in which one counter-terrorism operation led directly to a man suffering brutal mistreatment.
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The Guardian:
Gordon Brown was under intense pressure last night to throw open a new inquiry into the Iraq war to the public as families of soldiers who died, and anti-war MPs, reacted with horror to suggestions it would be held largely in secret.
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AP:
CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.
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Washington Times:
The Pentagon may have issued top-secret clearances last year to as many as one-in-four applicants who had "significant derogatory information" in their backgrounds, including a record of foreign influence or criminal conduct, a little- noticed government audit says.
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Washington Post:
President Obama vows to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve "state secrets," but then his Justice Department is criticized by a judge in California.
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