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My Georgetown colleague Dr. Timothy Beach discusses the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations. Tim is associate professor of geography and geoscience at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
(HT: UK in the US, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

In today’s Washington Post, Professor Loch Johnson, former special assistant to the late Senator Frank Church, reminds us previous efforts to investigate allegations of wrong-doing in the intelligence community. Dr. Johnson writes:
During the first half of the Cold War, the CIA was largely free of serious congressional supervision. And despite controversies such as the U2 shoot-down over the Soviet Union, …

From Borders Beyond Internet Television:
In the arid farmlands of eastern Kenya, a German NGO has been helping communities to harvest rain.
In the arid farmlands of eastern Kenya, a German NGO has been helping communities to harvest rain. Using the occasional rock features that interrupt the otherwise flat landscape, they are building simple reservoirs to catch rainwater as it runs …

Numerous previous posts have discussed the possibility of civil suits against individuals involved in the detention and treatment of detainees. The BBC is reporting about a suit planned by Mohammed Jawad:
Mohammed Jawad was released and arrived in his native Afghanistan earlier this week. His family says he was 12 at the time of his detention in 2002.
He was in custody …

In case you missed this, from the Washington Post:
Latest Documents Released by DOJ

OLC Letter to John Rizzo (PDF) (July 13, 2002)
OLC Memo for Michael Chertoff on Patriot Act (PDF) (Aug. 6, 2002)
OLC Memo on Use of Military Force in Iraq (PDF) (Oct. 21, 2002)
OLC Memo to Inspector General on FBI Bulletins (PDF) (April 5, 2004)
OLC Letter to Scott Muller …

From the Yahoo! Press release:

Yahoo! to Extend Reach to Millions of Consumers in the Arab World; Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Maktoob.com
Combination of Local Expertise and Global Scale to Provide Best Online Experience for Consumers in the Arab World and Platform for Advertisers in the Region

SUNNYVALE, …

The long-awaited CIA Inspector General’s 2004 report on detention and interrogation was released today. The report can be found in pdf form here. I am still trying to  make my way through the report. In the meantime, Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane in the New York Times observe:
Although large portions of the 109-page report are blacked out, it gives new …

A previous post reported on the recommendations by the Special Task Force. The press release issued by the Justice Department follows. (HT: Bobby Chesney)
Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies Issues Its Recommendations to the President
Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies, which was created pursuant to Executive Order …