AP - The CIA’s top lawyer said Tuesday he did not object to a 2002 memo authorizing interrogation techniques that stop just short of causing a sensation of impending organ failure or even death.
AP - Senate Democrats pressed for budget increases for party priorities such as health, special education and medical research Tuesday as an appropriations panel approved a $152 billion spending bill.
AP - The CIA’s top lawyer said Tuesday he did not object to a 2002 memo authorizing interrogation techniques that stop just short of causing a sensation of impending organ failure or even death.
Reuters - President George W. Bush's pick for
top CIA legal officer came under fire from Senate Democrats on
Tuesday for his role in an interrogation and detention program
that brought accusations of torture against the United States.
Reuters - The Democratic presidential
contenders squabbled over Iraq on Tuesday, with Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton a target of criticism for her 2002 vote to
authorize the war and her suggestion some U.S. troops may be
there for years.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton is the national front-runner in the eight-person Democratic presidential primary. Yet when it comes to the state-by-state contests that will decide the nomination, the candidates are practically all over the map.
AP - Presidential candidate Bill Richardson is accusing his Democratic rivals in the Senate of creating too many escape clauses for President Bush to leave U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely.
AP - They can be found rallying union workers, walking picket lines or helping sign up new members. Democrats running for president are after something else this time of year: the endorsements of the oh-so-important labor unions.
AP - Labor unions hold six of the top 10 positions in the Center for Responsive Politics’ list of top political donors to federal candidates and political parties since the 1989-90 election cycle, underscoring their importance to the Democratic Party.
AP - Democrats by far are the top recipients of campaign contributions from organized labor. Here are the top givers in the 2004 and 2006 federal campaigns:
