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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Justice System, Amnesty International, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, Yemen
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Torture helped get bin Laden?
"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...
Tags: Reviews, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Entertainment
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Carmike Cinema:Discover the secrets of 'Broken City'
OPENING FRIDAY Broken City It should come as no surprise that every character in a movie with a title like this is either rotten to the core, or a liar, or a schemer, or the bearer of seriously damaging secrets. What is surprising is that these...
Tags: Luis Guzman, James Gandolfini, Kathryn Bigelow, Jennifer Lawrence, Johnny Knoxville
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Does torture work?
Does torture work? It is a Bush-era debate that has found Obama-era relevance because of a new movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," in which torture seems to work quite well. The film, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, is being sold as a fact-based...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Human Rights, Martin Sheen, Politics, Michael Mukasey
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Jenna Bush Hager, former first daughter, is pregnant
Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter who's now a correspondent for the "Today" show, is expecting her first child with husband Henry. "I'm nervous and so excited to say that Henry and I are pregnant, or, I'm pregnant," the 31-year-old Hager...Tags: Mariah Carey, Social Media, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Jenna Bush Hager
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
5:30 - 9 a.m. Jonathon Brandmeier 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Mike McConnell 10:05 a.m. Hey y'all! Mike McConnell finds out why a southern accent makes you sound uneducated. 12 - 3 p.m. John Williams 1:05 p.m. John Williams will tell you how...Tags: Steve Allen
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Letters: Torture on the silver screen
Re "Why the fabrication?," Opinion, Dec. 23 It is astonishing that what is not disputed about "Zero Dark Thirty" is its accurate depiction of how for years the CIA deliberately and systematically tortured detainees with waterboarding and other savage...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Dick Cheney, Kathryn Bigelow, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 1
Cheap stunt will not divide and conquer To the editor: This letter is in response to “Obama voters have made their bed.” (Nov. 17, 2012) It is an interesting sociological phenomenon how groups of people can view the same incident and...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, H.L. Mencken, Labor Markets, Democratic Party, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Column: Does torture work?
Does torture work? It is a Bush-era debate that has found Obama-era relevance because of a new movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," in which torture seems to work quite well. The film, an Oscar nominee for best picture, is being sold as a fact-based...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Human Rights, Politics, Martin Sheen, Michael Mukasey
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Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term
— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...
Tags: Shootings, Bill Clinton, Politics, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Get the SEAL perspective
OPENING FRIDAY Zero Dark Thirty Everyone knows how "Zero Dark Thirty" ends: with the killing of Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani compound by SEAL Team Six. But it’s how it begins — with the hauntingly effective use of the voices of the...
Tags: Brotherhood (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, James Gandolfini, Josh Brolin, Kathryn Bigelow
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'Les Miserables,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' enter Oscar race
With high-profile Oscar contenders "Les Miserables" and "Zero Dark Thirty" screening for the first time for guild and academy members this weekend, a measure of clarity was expected to enter this year's best picture race. That happened, yes, but if you...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Django Unchained (movie), Argo (movie), Kathryn Bigelow, Anne Hathaway
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