In closing remarks after a marathon meeting of the national oil spill commission, co-chairman William Reilly blamed a “culture of complacency” for the massive Gulf oil spill.
He placed blame both on the oil industry for not adequately self-regulating and on Congress for underfunding the Minerals Management Service, the now-defunct More…
Former Obama administration Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum, who resigned amid criticism of the agency in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill, spoke publicly today for the first time since leaving her post in May. In testimony before the national oil spill commission, Birnbaum painted a picture of More…
President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster — the “greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history.”
The commission is headed by Bob Graham, the former Florida governor and senator, and William Reilly, the More…
Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, expands on his account of what the CIA told him about “enhanced interrogation” techniques on Sept. 27, 2002 to Marcy Wheeler. Porter Goss, the former chairman of the House intelligence committee and CIA director, declined to do the More…
It’s not just former Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who’ve alleged that the CIA’s list of briefings for congress on the “enhanced interrogations” regime is incorrect. Yesterday Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the House appropriations committee, sent CIA Director Leon Panetta this just-released letter More…
I keep trying to get confirmation of what former Sen. Bob Graham has been been saying about the CIA keeping erroneous records of what it told Congress in 2002 about “enhanced interrogation” techniques. A U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefings — and who requested that attribution — More…
I didn’t have much luck yesterday when I asked CIA spokesman George Little to respond to former Sen. Bob Graham’s (D-Fla.) charge that the agency admitted inaccuracies in its timeline of when it briefed Congress on torture. Graham said that on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio show yesterday. Now he More…
As first noticed by Marcy Wheeler this morning, former Senate intelligence committee chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.) went on the Brian Lehrer radio show and said the CIA has conceded to him that it made some errors in its account of which members of Congress were briefed and More…
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) made this point about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charges that the CIA misled Congress about torture:
“On that specific point I totally disagree. Over the 20 years I’ve been here, I’ve been briefed constantly by the CIA, and I’d say they’ve told me the truth
The CIA has been saying it briefed the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2002 about the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on detainees like Abu Zubaydah. Its implication is that Congress tacitly or explicitly consented to the torture that interrogators inflicted on those detainees — and, implicitly, if the More…
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