An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot.
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Impeachment inquiry witness David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who overheard a phone call between President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, said during a closed-door deposition last week that he had “never seen anything” like it, according to a transcript released Monday night.
Read moreAgainst escalating resistance from the White House, the House continues its impeachment probe of President Donald Trump with testimony Tuesday from a U.S. diplomat who had strong words for Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
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Facing scrutiny about his role in Ukraine dealings that have driven a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry will resign his office. Before that can happen, the clock for Perry to answer a House subpoena runs down Friday.
Read moreSpeaking during a deposition in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told House investigators Friday that she was forced out of her position in May after President Donald Trump pressured State Department officials to remove her.
Read moreEmbattled National Rifle Association board member and former president Oliver North will be deposed Tuesday morning in a New York state investigation without NRA lawyers present, to the consternation of the gun-rights group.
Read moreShe told the lawyers about flying in a helicopter with Bill, and how Jeffrey Epstein boasted about his friendship with Donald.
Read moreClosing the door for now to providing families information to hold Saudi Arabia liable for the 9/11 attacks, the plot’s accused “mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammad told their attorneys that he may be available for a deposition if his life is not on the line.
Read moreDenying a request by Delta Air Lines to have an elderly Swiss doctor and his ill wife return to New Orleans for a deposition in a civil rights suit, a federal judge called the motion “unnecessary, bordering on harassment.”
Read moreAfter a federal judge nixed a new citizenship question on the 2020 census, attorneys for the Trump administration and its challengers told the Supreme Court late Thursday to cancel its upcoming hearing on case.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must testify about a change he OK’d for the 2020 census that could hurt Democratic voting power for the next decade.
Read moreExtending a stay, the Supreme Court shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night from having to testify about why he is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreA panel of New York appeals court judges considered Thursday afternoon whether President Donald Trump can be held in contempt for refusing to be deposed in a defamation case brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos.
Read moreJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg late Tuesday paused the Second Circuit’s approval of the deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, over the the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census
Read moreUnder scrutiny for his addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed Tuesday to have the Second Circuit take deposition off the table.
Read moreCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must sit for deposition concerning his move to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, a federal judge ordered Friday.
Read moreDepartment of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Congress earlier this year that he added a citizenship question to the 2020 census to help the Department of Justice enforce the Voting Rights Act.
Read moreResponding to President Donald Trump’s effort to dump her lawsuit, adult film star Stormy Daniels on Monday renewed her bid to depose the president about his knowledge of a threat made against her in 2011 incident after she made plans to tell the story of her alleged affair with Trump.
Read morePresident Donald Trump must submit to deposition in the next six months as part of the defamation suit he faces from former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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