Commentary: Prosecute sins of Bush-Cheney era – Jack Cafferty
(CNN) – The Bush presidency is thankfully over…but the damage he and Dick Cheney did continues to press on the nerve of the American people like an impacted wisdom tooth. And until the questions...
View ArticleMilitary attorney: Waterboarding is ‘tip of the iceberg’
A military attorney who represented a now-freed Guantanamo detainee told CNN on Wednesday that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley was the lawyer...
View ArticleVideo: Michael Scheuer – Obama and Cheney Make Us Less Safe
In the ongoing debate between President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney on torture, former CIA terrorism expert Michael Scheuer points out how both leaders’ refusal to address U.S....
View ArticleDo Americans Have a Moral Conscience? – Paul Craig Roberts
Torture is a violation of US and international law. Yet, president George W. Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent memos prepared by Justice Department officials,...
View ArticleCheney Goofs on Israel – Ray McGovern
Oozing out of the sleazy speech he gave recently at the American Enterprise Institute was an inadvertent truth regarding the Israeli albatross hanging around the neck of U.S. policy in the Middle East....
View ArticleMSM: CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked
(Reuters) – CIA director Leon Panetta says it’s almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack...
View ArticleMSM: Was The CIA Hiding Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?
(Huffington) – The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas...
View ArticleCheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
(NYT) – The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s...
View Article"Myth America 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution"
(CindySheehan) – It’s time to break the sick relationship that we have with the Robber Class and do something about it! They can only rob us, if we allow them to. # Myth One: America: Greatest Nation...
View ArticleObama Ignores Torture – Helen Thomas
Secrecy is endemic in all governments. It goes with the turf, especially if their leaders hope to hide illegal or immoral behavior, such as torture of foreign prisoners. Many Americans heaved a sigh of...
View ArticleCIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe
As Americans continue to debate the torture era of the Bush administration, a new report has emerged about the alleged existence of a third secret prison used by the CIA in Europe. According to ABC...
View ArticleMSM: Renditions May Continue Under Interrogation Unit
President Obama has created a team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects as part of a broader effort to revamp United States policy on detention and interrogation. With the formation of...
View ArticleTorture: The Fault Is Not in Our Stars – Ray McGovern
Unlike many of my progressive friends, for me the current administration’s behavior on torture is a glass half full. In my view, the real scandal is how very few have taken a sip. Sure, President...
View ArticleObama administration shields CIA torturers
In response to a public campaign by the CIA, the Obama administration has decided to further scale back an already narrow investigation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture during the Bush...
View ArticleMSM: CIA chief approved destruction of terrorist waterboarding tapes
(Telegraph) – The former CIA chief, Porter Goss, approved a 2005 decision to destroy 92 tapes showing US agents waterboarding two terrorism suspects, according to newly released internal emails. Alex...
View ArticleNew Study Documents Media’s Servitude to Government – Glenn Greenwald
(Salon) – A newly released study from students at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying...
View ArticleWar Crimes of Bush and Obama Explained
(RussiaToday) – “We’ll get Bush in the US” the world’s top war crimes prosecutor tells The Truthseeker after Dubya’s deputies warn him against travel, lawyers file for Obama’s arrest tomorrow when he...
View ArticleUpdate on Whistleblower John Kiriakou
(Frompovich) - As my readers probably know, I’m a pen pal with whistleblower John Kiriakou, [1] who is serving time in the federal pen at Loretto, Pennsylvania, for exposing the waterboarding of...
View ArticleWhistleblower John Kiriakou Needs Readers’ Help
(Frompovich) - It seems when government officials make a deal, they apparently don’t keep to their part of a bargain! Or, at least that’s what happened to John Kiriakou, the CIA whistleblower who...
View ArticleHow the US Funds Global Torture – Brainwash Update
(BreakingTheSet) - Abby goes over a new Amnesty International report that finds that 141 countries in the world practice torture methods, including everything from severe beatings to waterboarding,...
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