U.S. waterboarded Libyan opponents of Gadhafi, report says

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Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report that details further brutal treatment at secret CIA-run prisons under the Bush administration-era U.S. program of detention and rendition of terror suspects.

The report Thursday also paints a more complete picture of Washington's close co-operation with the regime of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. handed over to Libya the Islamist opponents of Gadhafi that it detained abroad with only thin "diplomatic assurances" that they would not be mistreated, and several of them were subsequently tortured in prison, Human Rights Watch said.

'The scope of the Bush administration abuse appears far broader than previously acknowledged.'—Laura Pitter, Human Rights Watch

The 154-page report features interviews by the New York-based group with 14 Libyan dissident exiles. They describe systematic abuses while they were

US plans new antitrust effort

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A step in the right direction is a good thing

The Justice Department warned corporate America on Monday that the government will aggressively investigate big firms that improperly dominate markets.

Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said the department is abandoning legal guidelines put in place by the Bush administration in September 2008. Critics complained the earlier set of instructions made it difficult to pursue antitrust cases against big firms.

Varney laid out the new policy in a speech to the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.

She said some of the problems in the current economy were due to the lack of enforcement in the previous 10 years -- a clear jab at the Bush administration, which, she said, raised too many hurdles to antitrust investigations.

"There was a high cost to standing aside. We must change course