Despite requests and amid scrutiny about its secret detention program, the C.I.A. did not give the videotapes to a federal court hearing or to the Sept. 11 commission.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal agency set up almost four years ago to reinvent foreign aid, has taken longer than expected to help poor, well-governed countries.
Increased border enforcement has helped deter illegal immigrant traffic and boosted drug seizures, but it has also driven traffickers to find new ways to breach the American border.
Pollsters tell us that celebrity endorsements rarely do much for presidential candidates. But John Zogby says that Oprah Winfrey's backing of Sen. Barack Obama is much different.
Nearly a year before former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted onto the national stage by leading some polls in the Iowa Republican presidential caucus, one office in Washington can claim that it saw him coming and began preparing for it.
AP - The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday.
AP - President Bush's personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, raising the possibility of normalized relations if he fully discloses his nuclear programs by year's end, is a turnabout for a president who has labeled the communist regime part of an "axis of evil."
AP - A Yemeni admitted he was a driver for Osama bin Laden and knew of the al-Qaida leader's role in the Sept. 11 attack, an FBI agent testified Thursday, countering defense assertions that the detainee was a minor employee with no role in terrorism.
Investigators probing the deadly mall shooting in Nebraska have seized computers and are analyzing information on Web sites in the search for clues, police said. Police have already pieced together some of 19-year-old Robert Hawkins' final acts before he killed eight people and himself at a department store.
An Ecuadoran lawyer leading a landmark human rights and environmental lawsuit was given special recognition at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" Thursday night.
The CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of al Qaeda suspects because they no longer had "intelligence value" and they posed a security risk, CIA director Michael Hayden said Thursday. The tapes were made in 2002 and destroyed in 2005, Hayden said in a letter to CIA employees obtained by CNN.
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