Jun 13 Democrats to seek fresh Senate vote to bar guns for terror suspects By Alan Fram, Associated Press Democrats will try forcing a Senate vote on a proposal making it harder for suspected terrorists and people on government terror watch lists to buy guns and explosives, they said Monday as Congress moved toward a possible partisan fight following… Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 10:03 What’s going to happen when Obama nominates a new justice? Top senators weigh in By PBS News Hour Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has unleashed a contentious political battle over the future of the Supreme Court. While President Obama has made clear he will nominate a candidate, most Senate Republicans say he shouldn't. Judy Woodruff talks to the two… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch Sen. Dianne Feinstein calls on Apple to obey court order By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Could Facebook or Twitter stop the next terrorist attack? By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. Continue reading
Dec 24 Senate, CIA agree interrogation program was mismanaged By Stephen Braun, Associated Press WASHINGTON — While the Senate report on the CIA's interrogation program and the spy agency's official response clash on almost every aspect of the long-secret operation, both reports largely agree the agency mismanaged the now-shuttered program. Continue reading
Dec 12 CIA medics monitored brutal interrogation tactics By Stephen Braun, Associated Press WASHINGTON — From the early stages of the CIA's coercive interrogations of terror detainees, the agency's health professionals were intimately involved. Front-line medics and psychologists monitored and advised on abusive tactics, even as they sometimes complained about the ethical dilemmas… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 7:35 ‘Torture doesn’t work’ is big takeaway of CIA report for Sen. Feinstein – Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 09 Watch 6:18 Senate report graphically details brutal CIA interrogation tactics – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 09 Senate report: Harsh CIA tactics — including waterboarding, sleep deprivation — didn’t work By Bradley Klapper, Ken Dilanian, Associated Press Senate investigators delivered a damning indictment of CIA practices Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners beyond legal limits and deceiving the nation with narratives of life-saving interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records. Continue reading
Dec 09 What to know about the CIA interrogation report By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Simone Pathe For five-and-a-half years, nearly the entire Obama presidency, the U.S. has waited for a report on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee will release the (partially redacted) executive summary of that report. To help… Continue reading