Shifting rhetoric at the White House on prosecutions related to interrogation policies

A look at the White House’s shifting rhetoric on the possibility of prosecutions stemming from CIA interrogation techniques against terror suspects.

White House communications director leaving to become Commerce chief of staff

WASHINGTON — White House communications director Ellen Moran is stepping down to be chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, becoming the first senior adviser to President Barack Obama to leave the West Wing.

APNewsBreak: White House communications director leaving to become Commerce chief of staff

WASHINGTON — White House communications director Ellen Moran is stepping down to be chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, becoming the first senior adviser to President Barack Obama to leave the West Wing.

DOJ interrogation memos approved waterboarding, but left unanswered: Does torture work?

WASHINGTON — Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons.

Obama invites Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian leaders for separate White House talks

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will invite the Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to the White House in the coming weeks for separate talks on moving forward with the Middle East peace process, the White House said Tuesday.