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The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history. The probe is aimed at uncovering new information on the origins of the programs as well as scrutinizing how they were executed -- from the conditions at clandestine CIA prison sites to the interrogation regimens used to break Al Qaeda prisoners, according to Senate aides familiar with the inquiry plans.

Sen. Leahy's bizarre world Posted: May 15, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Vermont's Patrick Leahy took the floor in the United States Senate on May 9. It was the 1-year anniversary of President Bush's first round of judicial nominations, and Leahy had been under attack for refusing to even hold hearings for these nominees. Leahy's blockade is unprecedented in the annals of the Senate, so the chairman of the Judiciary Committee came up with a novel defense of his obstructionism: He reworked history. "If anyone will take the time to read a history book," began Leahy in his...