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"The Coup Leader Must Be Held Accountable" is from the July 25, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Ibrahim Kalin and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed - endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more - are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints - enforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the media - that have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable.

"Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for CIA Torture" is from the November 28, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Sheri Fink and James Risen and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.