BY SCOTT SHANE AND MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day. White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels. A…

BY DAVID JOHNSTON AND MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who will conduct the inquiry into the brutal interrogations of terror detainees faces formidable legal hurdles and complex political dynamics that make prosecutions far from certain.

“I…

By Christi Parsons and Julian Barnes
Tribune Newspapers

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. — In naming a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation tactics, the Obama administration has plunged into just the kind of controversy it wanted to avoid —…

BY TOM RAUM
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It’s another…

By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
New York Times

WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

The plans remained vague and were…

By Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Despite the Bush administration’s insistence that its warrantless eavesdropping program was necessary to protect the country from another terrorist attack, FBI agents, CIA analysts and other officials had difficulty evaluating its effectiveness, according to…