Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days
By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf / Time Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon ...
Afghanistan now is Obama's war ...by Helen Thomas
San Francisco ChronicleI had an historical flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he may need many thousands more troops to win the war. Shades of Vietnam. Do we ever learn? It brought back memories of the late Gen. ...
Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror ChiefsBy Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according ...
Torture Prosecution Turnaround? ...by Scott Horton
The attorney general is leaning toward appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush-era torture policy, sources tell Scott Horton. Inside the logic driving Eric Holder’s possible conversion. Daily Beast The Obama White House has deflected calls for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the formulation and implementation of Bush-era ...
2 senators: CIA concealment may have broken law
By Pete Yost WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months into Barack Obama's presidency, twin investigations may be on the horizon into Bush-era policies in the war on terror. Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counter-terrorism ...
A Plan to End the Wars ...by David Swanson
AfterDowningStreet.orgThere are a million and one things that people can do to try to end the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and to prevent new ones in Iran and elsewhere, as well as to close U.S. military bases in dozens of other nations around the world. Certain people ...
Where Are They Now? Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In ...by Nick Turse
TomDispatch In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans are now looking for work and, as a recent headline at Time.com put it, "The jobs aren't coming back anytime soon." In fact, a team ...
In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
By Michael Doyle / McClatchy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred. In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama's legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush's: White House ...
Let's hold Bush officials accountable for torture ...by Anthony Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld
The ACLU's executive director joins with a military officer to ask for a special prosecutor for tortureSalon Torture is a crime and the United States engaged in it. Those are two indisputable facts. Given the mountains of evidence already in the public domain, any effort to deny or soften that ...
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past By Jane Mayer / New Yorker The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former ...
Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze ...by Alfred McCoy
America's Political Paralysis Over Torture TomDispatch If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, you can't help but experience that eerie feeling of déjà vu these days. With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington ...
Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was TorturedBy Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Z. Smith / ABC For 7 1/2 years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center at ...
Bill and George Show helps rehabilitate Bush
By Sarah Baxter / London Times FOR George W Bush, life after the White House has meant scooping up Barney the dog's business on a neighbour's lawn near his new home in Dallas. "There I was, the former president, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which ...
Cheney: No 'evidence' of Iraq, 9/11 link
By Andy Barr / Politico Former Vice President Dick Cheney says there was "never any evidence" that Saddam Hussein's Iraq played any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. "On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9/11, there was never ...
MoveOn Pushes Back On Gitmo, Torture
By Sam Stein / Huffington Post MoveOn.org made a new push on Friday to persuade members of Congress to support the closure of Gitmo and back the White House in its decision to end the use of torture on detainees. In a video made with VoteVets.org, the group showcases the ...
Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium News Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name. Those familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan and the under-reported behavior of Gen. ...
Levin: CIA Torture Documents Cheney Wants Don't Prove Squat
By Greg Sargent / WhoRunsGovThere’s some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Administration this week. Specifically: Levin confirmed that he’d seen the classified CIA documents that Cheney has been asking the CIA to declassify and release — ...
The CIA's History of Deception ...by Melvin A. Goodman
Consortium News "Let me be clear about this," CIA director Leon Panetta told his troops last week, "it was not CIA policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values." Of course, Panetta is entitled to his opinions, but he cannot create his own facts. ...
Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney For Torture Speech
By Ryan Grim / Huffington Post A former top interrogator is responding forcefully to the case Dick Cheney made on Thursday in favor of torture (what the former VP and his allies refer to as "enhanced interrogation methods.") Brave New Films released a short video Tuesday of Matthew Alexander taking ...
Yet Another Bogus 'Terror' Plot
By Robert Dreyfuss / Nation By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece ...
The lie Cheney told about A.Q. Khan
by Larisa Alexandrovna / Raw Story Somewhere among the strategically placed references to September 11, 2001 and his unapologetic defense of torture, Dick Cheney managed to lie about a series of topics and events that are well documented. It is, after all, the electronic age and facts are not difficult ...
The Disease of Permanent War ...by Chris Hedges
TruthDig The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy. The liberal, democratic forces, tasked ...
The Phony Debate About Torture ...by Elizabeth Holtzman
Huffington Post Former Vice President Dick Cheney has triggered a roaring debate by his recent and repeated claim that torture "worked." Last week, Senator Lindsay Graham echoed the claim that torture "works" and added that is has for five hundred years (a timescale which connects us to the Spanish Inquisition). ...
U.S. Army paid bonuses to KBR despite deaths
By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army paid $83.4 million in bonuses to KBR Inc. (KBR.N), its biggest contractor in Iraq, despite accusations its wiring work has been linked to the electrocution of at least four soldiers and one contractor, a congressional investigative panel said on ...
Former Veep's New Financial Filings Show He's Worth Millions in Cash, Stock and Gifts By Spencer Ackerman / Washington Independent Even if he doesn't raise a dime from his political allies, Dick Cheney is well positioned to continue speaking out against the Obama administration's national security agenda, according to the ...
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