Beto O’Rourke formally announces 2020 run

    Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas Representative, formally announced Thursday that he’ll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of intense speculation over whether he’d try to translate his newfound political celebrity into a White House bid. Until he challenged Republican Senator Ted Cruz last year, Mr O’Rourke was little known outside his hometown of El Paso….

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      Guantanamo express: Scottish police finish probe into CIA ‘torture flights’ & rendition stopovers

      Police in Scotland have filed their final report into a probe of CIA “rendition stopovers” during the early years of the War on Terror, looking into at least six secret flights. The report’s contents remain secret, however. Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland, Scotland’s chief public prosecutor, ordered the probe back in 2013. His successor James Wolffe…

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