First, though, Saddam faces weeks if not months of interrogation by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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He served this country with great distinction in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and as head of the CIA. By his own assessment, he did not meet the standards that he felt were necessary as the Director of CIA with respect to this personal matter that he is now dealing with, with his family and with his wife.

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The memo he wrote to his CIA director was necessitated by the observation he made that there was not the kind of focus that there needed to be.

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Jon Durham, the prosecutor assigned to the case by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, decided not to charge the undercover officers and lawyers at the CIA over the destruction of the tapes.

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Those officials were instructed by CIA headquarters not to give FBI interrogators access to Binalshibh or the second senior operative.

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By law, the military is not able to act covertly the way the CIA can, and it must answer to Congress.

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The RQ-170 Sentinel is an advanced high-altitude surveillance drone used by both the US Air Force and the CIA. It does not carry weapons.

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Another report, prepared by former CIA director John Deutch, also concluded that the US "is not making optimal use of its economic leverage in combating proliferation".

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