Top Democrats Complicit In Torture Cover-Up
Paul Joseph Watson |PrisonPlanet.com The Obama administration is resisting an independent inquiry into the Bush torture program because top Democrats like Pelosi were complicit in approving illegal methods. We now know why top Democrats are protecting Bush administration officials from facing an inquiry into the illegal torture program – because several of them were actually [...]
“Explosive” Senate Torture Report Reveals What We’ve Already Known For Three And A Half Years
Steve Watson | InfoWars.net A newly released Senate Armed Services Committee report is garnering much media attention today, however it only confirms what we first reported in 2005 – that high-ranking Bush officials were responsible for torture of detainees and tried to shift the blame to low-ranking army officers. The report is “a condemnation of [...]
From 9/11 Widows: An Open Letter to Senator Patrick Leahy
March 3, 2009 ** *An Open Letter to Senator Patrick Leahy * March 3, 2009 Dear Senator Leahy, We felt compelled to write to you regarding your recent call for the formation of a “Truth Commission”. According to your press comments, this Commission is supposed to look at the following: * the politicization of prosecution [...]
Former Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning
The feds dropped all charges against Susan Lindauer, and now she’s talking freely. Michael Collins‘s interview with Lindauer covers the warnings provided to the Bush-Cheney administration prior to 9/11. It presents entirely new information from an angel that will add substantially to knowledge that terrible attack. Michael Collins | AmericanPoliticsJournal.com I first wrote about Susan [...]
Obama’s new budget for military expense is just as large as it was under Bush. No change there, either.
Fred Kaplan | Slate.com Much remains unknown about the shape of President Barack Obama’s debut defense budget. Details won’t be announced—several key decisions won’t be made—until April. But from the broad numbers released this morning, two things seem clear: First, it is larger than it appears to be at first glance. Second, not counting the [...]
Senate to announce investigation of torture under Bush, senators say
John Byrne | RawStory.com The Senate is quietly preparing plans to investigate allegations of torture under President George W. Bush, according to comments published Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The Senate Judiciary Committee could announce a hearing to consider various plans to probe allegations of torture as early [...]
Yoo Memos Gave Retroactive Cover
A Justice Department inquiry has found that the Bush administration’s legal opinions justifying the torture of “war on terror” detainees were hastily drafted after one prisoner was already subjected to waterboarding, a practice that creates the sensation of drowning, according to several sources familiar with the still-classified report. Jason Leopold | ConsortiumNews.com The implication of [...]
Despite rhetoric, Obama continues Bush policy on detainees: Indefinite detention, no legal rights
John Byrne | RawStory.com Bagram airbase flies under the radar but will continue to operate without US law. In a stunning departure from his rhetoric on Guantánamo Bay prison, President Barack Obama signaled Friday he will continue Bush Administration policy with regard to detainees held at a US airbase in Afghanistan, saying they have no right [...]
Obama: Reopen the 9/11 Investigation — Part 2 – The Huffington Post
Melissa Rossi | HuffingtonPost.com So many dastardly acts were committed during the Bush administration (many of them by the Bush administration) that it’s hard to nail down the worst. Senator Patrick Leahy recently suggested formation of a “Truth Commission” to investigate the interrogation, torture, and shredding of civil liberties that occurred as part of the Bush [...]
When It is Okay and Not Okay to Lie to Congress?
Dissident Voice by Kim Petersen / February 11th, 2009 Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged Tuesday with lying to the US Congress about taking a performance-enhancing substance. Tajeda is expected to plead guilty to lying to a Congressional investigation about taking steroids and about knowledge of other players taking steroids. [...]
“Yes I am emotional about torture SIR!” – Shami Chakrabarti SAVAGES UK Minister Geoff “Buff” Hoon
“Buff” Hoon over the US attempts to BLACKMAIL Britain into silence over evidence of Torture. Information Clearing House Posted February 07, 2009 Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at the American base, has launched a legal challenge in the High Court in London for documents detailing his treatment to be made public. [...]
Endgame? What Endgame?
Afghanistan: A war without end.Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com So, you thought it was all going to be different, did you, that we were in for a change – a Big Change? Well, the bad news, as Newsweek reports, is that the more things change …. “The Pentagon is prepared to announce the deployment of 17,000 additional soldiers and [...]
WARR, WIFE CHARGED WITH KATRINA FRAUD
Anita Lee | SunHerald.com A Hurricane Katrina-recovery ambassador to President George W. Bush and the nation, Mayor Brent Warr says his work and the city’s will continue as prosecutors prepare a federal case against him and his wife, Laura, on 16 charges of Katrina fraud. The Warrs cried quietly Wednesday in the corridor of the U.S. [...]
Illegal wire-tapping suit now in Obama’s court
Bob Egelko | SFgate.com President-elect Barack Obama dismayed civil liberties groups last summer when he voted to authorize President Bush’s clandestine wiretapping program after publicly denouncing it. Now, thanks to a ruling by a San Francisco federal judge, Obama must take a stand on whether the Bush administration violated Americans’ rights when it intercepted their phone [...]
Bush’s Legacy Tour
Gene Healy | reason.com As he prepares to head back to the ranch come January 20, President Bush has embarked on a sort of “Legacy Tour,” granting 10 interviews in recent weeks. When asked how his presidency will be remembered, Bush typically insists that “history” will be the judge. He’s right—and right as well that historians [...]
Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture
by Glenn Greenwald It seems fairly easy — even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law — to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008: Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on [...]
Bush Declares State of Emergency for Inauguration
David Nakamura | WashingtonPost.com President Bush has declared a state of emergency for the District during the Inauguration Jan. 17-21, Press Secretary Dana Perino said. The move will allow the federal government to provide funding to District government agencies, which have been swamped with planning and paying for security and transportation needs.The federal government had given [...]
White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success
Eric Brewer | RawStory.comOne of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to a close is that after the president created a “central front in the war on terror” by invading Iraq, the amount of “terrorism” in the world skyrocketed. I call it the Bush Bubble: At first, the administration [...]
Obama’s Black Widow
Nat Hentoff | VillageVoice.com Thanks to Bush and Obama, the National Security Agency now knows more about you. Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. [...]
The Empire Shrugs
Alan Bock | AntiWar.com My early reaction to the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip is perhaps more U.S.-centered than some others’. But the most significant aspect of the U.S. response, implicitly acknowledged in most news reports and commentary, is precisely that nobody really expects the U.S. to respond in anything other than a ritualistic fashion. The world and, [...]
