As I wrote previously, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind asserts in his latest book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism,that the Bush adminstration ordered a back-dated letter linking Iraq to 9/11 be forged. On Friday Suskind released a transcript of a conversation between himself and the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.
President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.
