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 ...
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 ...
Several Bush officials work in areas related to former jobs
By Fredreka Schouten / USA Today WASHINGTON — More than one in four members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet have landed jobs with consulting or lobbying firms in which they can help clients navigate the departments they once oversaw, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Michael Chertoff, who served as ...
Tales From Torture's Dark World ...by Mark Danner
New York Times ON a bright sunny day two years ago, President George W. Bush strode into the East Room of the White House and informed the world that the United States had created a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured terrorists. "In addition to the terrorists ...
Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects? By Jane Meyer / New Yorker The last "enemy combatant" being detained in America is incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina—a tan, low-slung building situated amid acres of grassy swampland. The prisoner, known ...
Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies
By Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ago, said he is writing a book to set the record straight about his controversial tenure as a senior official in the Bush administration. Mr. ...
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and other top Bush officials could soon face legal jeopardy By Jonathan Tepperman / Newsweek The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse record of accounting for them afterward. But a remarkable string of recent events suggests that ...
U.S. considers using racial profiling in terror cases
By Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy, which ...
FBI agents' torture warnings ignored, Justice official says
Report: NSC was deaf to complaints about treatment of terror suspects By Marisa Taylor / Mcclatchy-tribune WASHINGTON — FBI agents repeatedly complained that harsh interrogation techniques used on detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo might violate the law and jeopardize future criminal trials, but administration officials did little to address ...
House panel subpoenas top Cheney aide
Addington sought for testimony on administration's interrogation practices Associated Press WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee about the Bush administration's interrogation practices. David Addington, Cheney's chief of staff, refused to testify without a ...
House Judiciary Committee Expected To Subpoena Cheney Aide
By Daniel W. Reilly / The Politico House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has once again threatened to subpoena the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney in an ongoing standoff over the legal justifications for harsh interrogation techniques. But unlike previous fights, the aide - Cheney Chief of ...
Cheney, others OK'd harsh interrogations
By Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took ...
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects By Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue / ABC News In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how ...
Gonzales' UF talk stirs arrests, no Taser
GAINESVILLE -- (AP) -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endured screams of ''criminal'' and ''liar'' during a speech at the University of Florida on Monday evening. About 730 students and community members heard Gonzales defend his career as White House counsel and head of the Justice Department and give his ...
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But ...
US president sees another 'Bushie' go
By Edward Luce and Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times Alberto Gonzales on Monday announced the end of his service to the Bush administration in much the same way that he provided it – without divulging any information. The man who said “I don’t recall” or “I have no recollection” more ...
US Attorney General Gonzales resigns
By Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales, the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday — ending a nasty, monthslong standoff over his honesty and competence at the helm of the Justice Department. Republicans and Democrats alike had demanded his resignation over the botched handling ...
Campaign against alleged voter fraud fuels political tempest
By Greg Gordon / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates. The administration intensified its efforts last year as President ...
Abramoff-Linked Lobbyist Resigns
By Josephine Hearn / Politico.com Amid reports the Justice Department is investigating ties between Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) and jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key link between the two, Kevin A. Ring, has abruptly resigned from his law firm. Ring tendered his resignation from Indianapolis-based law firm Barnes & Thornburg, ...
Gonzales Aide Suggested Replacements for Attorneys
By David Johnston / New York Times WASHINGTON, April 13 — A Justice Department e-mail released today shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for seven United States attorneys nearly a year before those prosecutors were fired, in contrast to testimony ...
1 man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps
By Martha Mendoza / Associated Press In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society. But he has been in custody for five years. His name is ...
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11
By Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before ...
Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat
By Philip Shenon and Mark Mazzetti / New York Times JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 — A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat ...
Justice Dept. Is Criticized by Ex-Official on Subpoenas
By Adam Liptak / New York Times Subpoenas issued last month to reporters for The San Francisco Chronicle were criticized yesterday by a former chief spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft as a "reckless abuse of power." The former spokesman, Mark Corallo, made similar statements in an affidavit filed in ...
National Journal: Novak Assured Rove He Would Protect Him
Editor & Publisher NEW YORK - Murray Waas, who has broken so many key stories in the Plame/CIA leak case for the National Journal, has been rather quiet this month, but emerged today with another bombshell. On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
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