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A former security minister has said that British spies may have been aware of torture carried out by CIA agents. Lord West of Spithead, who served in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said there may have been the “odd case” where

A last-second vote helped pass the new federal budget bill through the House of Representatives late Thursday evening, but the Senate still has to give its approval before it can land on President Obama’s desk. With the clock ticking down,

The U.S. military no longer has custody of any detainees in Afghanistan and has shut down operations at the Bagram prison, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed.  Earlier this week, U.S. officials quietly transferred the custody of the last three prisoners to

In a speech about the current spending bill that passed the House on Thursday from the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to allow for a vote on an amendment

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) negotiated the inclusion of a land entitlement provision in the “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for a Sealaska, an Alaska Native Regional Corporation that helped fund her re-election in 2010 as a write-in candidate.   The

After one of the most resounding election victories in recent history, the GOP establishment–not “leadership,” because there’s none of that to be found–has surrendered, granting an undeserved victory to an embattled, lame-duck president, whose policies were roundly rejected by voters. 

It’s probably a good thing the Cromnibus saga blew that stupid hyper-partisan Democrat report on CIA interrogations off the front pages, because it wasn’t working out at all the way Senator Dianne Feinstein and her crew expected it to.  

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed Thursday to authorize the ongoing U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State terror group. However, the measure prohibited the use of ground troops in the mission to defeat ISIS. The authorization passed in a 10-8

Thursday in an interview on Fusion’s “America with Jorge Ramos,” former President Bill Clinton said  the release of the Senate Democrats report on CIA enhanced interrogations does not put America in danger but instead proves we are honest enough to

The CIA director took issue with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for not interviewing CIA officers during its investigation on the agency’s enhanced interrogation tactics (EITs), indicating that as a result a partisan investigation was unveiled.   “Our hope

(Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects “took things out of context” and made false accusations.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) says House Republican Leadership misled him during a procedural vote on the cromnibus Thursday afternoon.  “Earlier today, I supported the Rule because I was informed by Leadership that the CROmnibus was dead and a short term

More than 300 former Obama campaign staffers have signed onto a letter calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.  “We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016,” the letter declares. The staffers cited income

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is targeting President Obama’s executive amnesty by offering companion legislation in the Senate to a bill from Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) that the House approved last week. Paul’s “Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014,”

On Friday evening, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Congress has a duty to defund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty that defies the will of the American people and imposes the open-borders paradise that “super elites” in Washington and Wall Street

In a classic structured roll call vote, the House narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill to fund most of the government until September of next year. The vote saw defections at both ends of the political spectrum, with 62

On Thursday, even as House Republican leadership caved to President Obama’s executive amnesty, passing a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill funding that amnesty through the end of February, Senate Republicans prepared to do the same. The Senate Republican cave comes on

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) says that House GOP leadership–he hasn’t identified anyone in particular–duped him into switching his vote on the procedural measure that set up the 1,774-page, $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill backed by House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) delivered these remarks on the Senate floor Friday evening. The U.S. Department of Commerce informs us that “today’s typical 18- to 34-year-old earns about $2,000 less per year (adjusted for inflation) than their counterpart in 1980.”

AUSTIN, Texas — In a narrow 216-209 vote Thursday night, the House of Representatives passed a “CRomnibus” spending bill, despite sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats. In Texas, where Republicans swept the statewide offices by double digit margins of

The UN voiced “serious concern” about the Taliban’s persistent threat after the group killed seven people in two suicide attacks in Kabul Thursday, including one targeting a play at a French-financed high school. The warning comes with the Afghan capital

LONDON (Reuters) – Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday he would support an inquiry into whether British spies were complicit in CIA torture of terrorism suspects, if other investigations failed to uncover the truth. Clegg said that while

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that conservatives in the House heard “not one word” from House GOP leadership on compromises to make changes to the cromnibus in order to get conservatives to vote for it even though “we were willing

The law known as the Texas DREAM Act will face a “big revampor repeal” according to one incoming State Senator. The measure passed into lawduring the 2001 legislative session and provides for in-state tuition forcertain children of illegal immigrants. The

Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan addressed the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention and interrogation procedures and set the stage for the decisions made at the time saying.  “On the morning of September 11, 2001, when the North Tower

The Left is feeling pretty good about itself right now. After the disappointment of the 2014 midterms, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s release of the CIA “torture report” has given liberals a feeling of moral superiority, even as they lose their senatorial majority.  

Though school officials, nutritionists, parents, and students have decried First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch program, the $1 trillion CRomnibus (part “continuing resolution” and part “omnibus”) does not include relief from the unpopular meals standards after all. Daren Bakst at The

Representative Dave Brat (R-VA) argued that “Republicans are going to lose the American people” “if we don’t draw some stark red lines” on the president’s executive action on immigration and at least force the Senate to vote against defunding the order

Thursday facing reporters questions about harsh criticism coming from both sides of the isle on his $1 trillion spending bill, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) defending the results of the bipartisan negotiations by saying, “This is exactly the way I

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert said on the House floor this week that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was calling Democrats — not Republicans — stupid for voting for the healthcare bill.  Controversy engulfed Gruber earlier this year after videos surfaced showing him bragging