Author: Matt Apuzzo
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U.S. trial eyed for Guantanamo detainee
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is conducting an intense security review as part of a plan to bring one of the world’s most notorious terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay to Washington for a trial just steps from the Capitol building, officials said. Republican critics said the plan would make the city more dangerous, risk…
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CIA interrogation a sleepless, terrifying ordeal
WASHINGTON – The journey into the CIA’s most extreme interrogation program began in darkness.Blindfolded, hooded and wearing earmuffs, suspected terrorists were shackled and flown to secret interrogation centers. The buildings themselves were quiet, clinical and designed to fill prisoners with dread. Detainees were shaved, stripped and photographed nude.The questioning began mildly, a shackled detainee facing…
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Wells Fargo defends, then cancels Vegas junket
WASHINGTON – Wells Fargo & Co. abruptly canceled Tuesday a pricey Las Vegas casino junket for employees after a torrent of criticism that it was misusing $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money.The company initially defended the trip after The Associated Press reported it had booked 12 nights beginning Friday at the Wynn Las Vegas and…
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Obama raps McCain for ignorance of his own houses
WASHINGTON – John McCain may have created his own housing crisis.Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn’t know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.With…
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CLINTON TROUNCES OBAMA IN WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.”The White House is won in the swing states. And I am winning the swing…