White House Preparing To Release "Holy Grail" Torture Report
He’s no longer serving as inspector general in the interim. It will be interesting to see how vocal Dick Cheney is about further disclosure, now that this balloon is afloat. RELATED: White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report … read more…
Advantages of Pre-foreclosures over Foreclosures | Real Estate …
Depending on timing and willingness of the owner you may be able get a house inspector to look around as well. Pre-foreclosures provide the opportunity to see what sort of work needs to be done to the premise, and provide you with an … read more…
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Open Question: FHA Loan Questions, after approved how long til closing?
I have my house sold, The man buying it is geting an FHA loan. I first accecpted the buyers offer the first week of january 09. The inspector and appraiser have came to look at the proprety. I had to have work done to pass FHA,( the collumns under the house had to have “sure-wall” put on them. ) That was done two weeks ago. FHA sent an engineer to approve the work, (It passed) The inspector came back out to inspect the house again. This time it passed.
My buyer is using home trust bank, and he has been approved, He has gave them the down payment money, and everything is done on my end.
It has been over two weeks since everything was complete and turned in. Ive talked to my buyer’s loan officer, and she said ” I have never done an FHA loan before, I have no idea how long it will take” so my question is How much longer should it take before we close?
Ive been very held up by all of this, I have a job im about to loose if I don’t move , and my dream house picked out and about to loose it! unless we close very soon.
thanks!
I have no idea what they are waiting on, all of the papers needed are turned into the loan officer, Im guessing she had to turn them in to FHA? could that be what we are waiting for? I know my buyers closing atturney, should I call him? if not who should I call?
The realtor for the house I wish to buy has called everyone she can, I talked to her this morning and she said ” I don’t know what the hell is going on, they should have been done last week.”
The realtor for the bank said ” Their is only a few banks out their I don’t like and Hometrust just made number one Their is NO reason to hold this up anymore then they have” I asked what should I do, and they said I need to find the broker in charge of the house.
She believes they have sent it to another broker.
I have my “buyers” realtor, and the bank who owns the house I want’s realtor both calling, and pushing. They both have gave up and said their is nothing we can do.
Open Question: Plan to sell my house, can I hire an inspector to tell me what needs fixing before it goes on the market?
I would like to know what needs to be fixed so there are no surprises when I put my house on the market. Can I hire a home inspector for that purpose? Is this information confidential? For example, if he or she finds something that I don’t want to fix, do I have to disclose this to the buyer or is it up to their inspector to find any issues? Thanks!
Resolved Question: How can I stop my bad neighbors?
I park in the back of my house and the alley is horribly covered with trash, pieces of wood (that the kids break and leave where I park),nails, rocks and everything else. It is their kids leaving this behind. No other alley looks like this. I’ve talked to the mother and refused to do anything, saying it wasn’t her kids. I’ve seen them. I had to ask them to stop coming in my yard and throwing rocks at my cats (I’m putting upchain linklink fence ). So I told her I had her kids on camera doing this and she felt hostile. About every other week I either get a flat tire. I called the city and they sent out an inspector and they sent them a letter in the mail saying they had to clean up the alley. They did, but three days later it looked the same. There’s not much parking in front. What should I do?
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Acutely aware that the agency would be blamed if the policies lost political support, nervous C.I.A. officials began to curb its practices much earlier than most Americans know: no one was waterboarded after March 2003, and coercive interrogation methods were shelved altogether in 2005.
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If the inspector general’s report was a body blow to the C.I.A. program, the bill passed by Congress the next year was a knockout punch. Provoked by the abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who had been tortured by the North Vietnamese, the 2005 bill banned cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Top C.I.A. officials then feared that the agency’s methods could actually be illegal. Mr. Goss, who had succeeded Mr. Tenet at the C.I.A., wrote a memorandum to the White House saying the agency would carry out no harsh interrogations without new Justice Department approval.
The national security adviser, Mr. Hadley, was angered by the C.I.A.’s response. He called Mr. Goss at home over the Christmas holidays to complain; Mr. Goss, backed by his lawyers, would not budge. Mr. Hadley decided he could not push the C.I.A. to do what it thought might be illegal.
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But Bush administration officials could not agree about what to do with the agency’s prisoners. Already, disclosures of secret prisons in Eastern Europe had prompted the C.I.A. to fly many in a hurry to Afghanistan.
Mr. Cheney led those who argued that publicly acknowledging the detainees would reveal secrets and expose the program to exaggerated accusations of torture.
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed a middle ground: move the detainees to Guantánamo but never acknowledge having held them in secret prisons. This proposal, lampooned by some officials as the “immaculate conception” option, was dismissed as unrealistic.
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Still, Mr. Cheney and top C.I.A. officials fought to revive the program. Steven G. Bradbury, the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and author of the recently declassified 2005 memorandums authorizing harsh C.I.A interrogations, began drafting another memorandum in late 2006 to restore legal approval for harsh interrogation. Mr. Bradbury noted that Congress, despite the public controversy, had left it to the White House to set the limits.
Early drafts of the memorandum, circulated through the White House, the C.I.A. and the State Department, shocked some officials. Just months after the Supreme Court had declared that the Geneva Convention applied to Al Qaeda, the new Bradbury memorandum gave its blessing to almost every technique, except waterboarding, that the C.I.A. had used since 2002.
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In February 2007, Mr. Bellinger wrote to the Justice Department challenging Mr. Bradbury’s position. He called Mr. Bradbury’s memorandum a “work of advocacy” that gave a twisted interpretation of the Geneva Conventions and told colleagues he might resign.
When Mr. Bush finally reauthorized C.I.A. interrogations with an executive order in July 2007, it reflected the yearlong lobbying of Mr. Bellinger and Ms. Rice: forced nudity was banned, and guidelines for sleep deprivation were tighter.
But Mr. Cheney and his allies secured other victories. The executive order preserved the secret jails and authorized a laundry list of coercive methods. Ms. Rice, several officials say, declined to endorse the order but chose not to block it.
When Mr. Obama was sworn in on Jan. 20, the C.I.A. still maintained a network of empty jails overseas, where interrogators were still authorized to use physical pressure. Within 48 hours, he banned the methods.
Finally, last month, the program that had been the source of so many vigorous fights in Washington’s power corridors met a prosaic end.
Leon E. Panetta, the new C.I.A. chief, terminated the agency’s contracts providing the security and maintenance for the prisons, emphasizing the economic benefits. Closing the C.I.A. prisons, Mr. Panetta said, would save taxpayers $4 million.
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