Yhdysvaltain vallanpitäjät jatkoivat talouden syöksykierteen vastaista taistelua monella rintamalla tiistaina, kun valtiovarainministeri Timothy Geithner ja keskuspankki esittelivät jopa yli 1 500 miljardin euron suunnitelmansa rahoitusmarkkinoiden voitelemiseksi ja senaatti hyväksyi 650 miljardin euron elvytyspaketin.

A brewing fraud scandal at the Treasury Department may be worse than officials originally thought. Investigators probing how Treasury regulators allowed a bank to falsify financial records hiding its ill health have found at least three other instances of similar apparent fraud, sources tell ABC News.

Eduskunnan liikenne- ja viestintävaliokunta hyväksyi perjantaina mietinnön hallituksen esittämästä sähköisen viestinnän tietosuojalain muutoksesta eli niin sanotusta Lex Nokiasta.

The CIA last year refused to permit Justice Department investigators to question a key Al Qaeda detainee about what happened to him in the agency’s custody, including reports that he was subjected to “waterboarding” and other abusive interrogation methods.

According to a report released Tuesday, the CIA’s actions in blocking the investigators’ access to Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah were “unwarranted” and “hampered” an investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General into the FBI’s knowledge of abuse by CIA and U.S. military interrogators.

Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.

In a stunning admission to ABC news Friday night, President Bush declared that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. Bush reportedly told ABC, “I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.” Bush also defended the use of waterboarding.