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58 Percent of U.S. Voters Want to Waterboard Failed Christmas Bomber

By | 12.31.09 | 11:56 am

Don’t expect any charitable feelings around the holidays. According to a new Rasmussen national telephone survey, 58 percent of U.S. voters say they’d support using waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques to extract information from the failed Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber.

Just 30 percent oppose using such More…

Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Airline Attack; Prosecutors Cancel Court Hearing

By | 12.28.09 | 2:45 pm

Prosecutors today unexpectedly canceled the first court hearing scheduled for the “underpants bomber” — the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet en route to Detroit on Friday.

The Justice Department was expected to seek a warrant to take a DNA sample from More…

New Interrogation Unit Unlikely to Question Ft. Hood Suspect

By | 11.20.09 | 10:33 am

The new unit created by the Obama administration to interrogate the highest-value terrorism targets is unlikely to play a role in the case of the highest-profile new potential terrorist target in U.S. custody: Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter.

The director of the new interrogation unit, More…