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Defense Department Still Won’t Comment on Chinese Government Interrogation of Uighurs

CQ Politics notes that a fight is brewing in Congress (finally) over the charge that the Defense Department allowed Chinese government agents to abusively interrogate the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Reports CQ:
Jay Alan Liotta, principal director of the Defense Department office responsible for detainee policy, told a House subcommittee on Thursday that he would [...]


Leahy to Schedule Sotomayor Vote for Late July

From CQ:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., says he will schedule a vote on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court for July 21, though any committee Republican can hold over the vote for one week.


Harman: There’s Nothing New in the CQ Story

Via Zach Roth at TPMmuckraker, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) released this statement in response to Jeff Stein’s CQ story:
The CQ Politics story simply recycles three year-old discredited reporting of largely unsourced material to manufacture a ’scoop’ out of widely known and unremarkable facts – that Congresswoman Jane Harman is and has long been a supporter [...]


CQ: CIA Operations Folks Dissatisfied With Panetta

My CIA sources on Monday were surprised but not so dismayed by the news that Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the agency. Jeff Stein’s CIA sources yesterday? Much more dismayed.
Writing in his CQ column, Jeff talks to veterans of the CIA’s operations directorate — the people who recruit spies, gather information, [...]