This I don't Believe: The CIA Misled The White House
Go on pull the other one its got manacles on.The CIA misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation programme for terrorism suspects, and its methods, which included waterboarding,...
View ArticleA massive and systematic violation of human rights
Not only by the US that is for sure there was a great deal of complicity from its allies in Europe and beyond. The torture program being just one part.The complicity in allowing the invasion of Iraq...
View ArticleReminder: Emergencies and Imminent Threats are Not Justifications for Torture
Since the release of the report on the torture program conducted by the CIA and the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, one of the arguments we keep hearing from people trying to defend the...
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Why Do We Punish Lawbreakers In the First Place?
The arguments coming from the ACLU's Executive Director Anthony Romero and others saying that President Obama should formally pardon the officials who approved the US's torture program under the Bush...
View ArticleToday: Senator Levin (D-MI) To Open Pandora's Box On Iraq War Lies
In a press release today, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced plans to introduce into the Congressional Record some damning new information about how Bush...
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Dick Cheney on CIA torture: 'I'd do it again in a minute'
The former Vice President and one of the chief proponents of America's Bush-regime torture programs was invited to the Sunday shows yesterday to explain once again that screw national and...
View ArticleThe "Poor" Terrorists were Tortured?
The toxic political climate in America today dictates that as soon as one end of the political spectrum says or does anything, the other end feels pressure to instantly reply. This article is an...
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Dick Cheney: 'I have no problem' using torture program against innocent persons
Yesterday, the former vice president of the United States and one of the architects of the American torture program explained why he was unconcerned about the torture of innocent prisoners.CHUCK TODD:...
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A majority of Americans support CIA torture program
Fifty-two percent say it was wrong for the Senate to release the torture report. Most or all of these people probably also go to church on Sundays.A majority of Americans believe that the harsh...
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Dick Cheney is a liar, torture edition
He's lying.Chuck Todd: “When you say waterboarding is not torture then why did we prosecute Japanese soldiers?”Former vice president Richard B. Cheney: “Not for waterboarding. They did an awful lot of...
View ArticleAmericans Approve of Torture
Does it surprise you that six out of ten American think that the Bush Administration's/CIA's torture project was justified? That's what a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, produced for ABC News by...
View ArticleNot Just Public Lands: Defense Bill Also Incentivizes Fracked Gas Vehicles
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog recently revealed how Big Oil’s lobbyists snuck expedited permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on public lands into the National Defense Authorization...
View ArticleConservatives Criticizing Obama for Paris Photo-op Forget World Hates Their...
It’s not surprising that conservatives have jumped on the Obama administration for sending ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, to the photo-op of free-press-hating world leaders (an issue that, in all...
View ArticleA Blast from the Past: CREW, email, and the PRA [Updated]
I've added content - a second note, also over the fold, had some worthy references to share as well.In light of the yammering, whining, squirming, and hand-waving of the GOP in their efforts to make a...
View ArticleNo call for Help
The recent plane crash in France in which there was no radio call for help was considered a rare event, and because of the silence the cause of the crash seemed unimaginable. We would eventually...
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Ex-CIA briefer: Bush administration presented false 'intelligence' to the nation
No kidding. In the much-needed pile-on lambasting the most recent round of Iraq War whitewashing, Ex-CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell appeared on the TV to say that yes, the Bush administration lied...
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The Run-up to Iraq War: Mother Jones Timeline
Since so many are in the "Iraq Revisionist" mode lately, I thought I'd post this VERY informative Timeline.Hopefully, it might put some helpful "side-bars" around all the "what we knew then" questions...
View ArticleThe Thundering Failure of the Democrats
I'm a Tom Joad democrat, a prison reform democrat, an anti-poverty democrat and a pro-justice democrat - so the party left me a long time ago...and they never looked back as they went chasing after the...
View ArticleBruce Bartlett: Living Outside the Bubble
Bruce Bartlett, a conservative historian formerly affiliated with the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, recently authored a paper where he criticized Fox News. He argues that the station...
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Donald Rumsfeld's regret over Iraq? Trying to 'fashion a democracy' there
At long last, Bush administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has found something he regrets in the way the U.S. war against Iraq was sold and executed. Not the bit about weapons of mass...
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What do you know? Donald Rumsfeld didn't always say Iraqi democracy was...
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knows what went wrong in Iraq: The United States tried to promote democracy there, rather than not invading to...
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Dick Cheney (Iran) to give big speech (Iran) on who we should bomb next (Iran)
Still itching for new wars. Oh, good. I was wondering when the vice president and chief operating officer of Failure, Incorporated was going to weigh in.Former Vice President Dick Cheney plans to give...
View ArticleMajority Report Conversation: Katrina & Ethnic Cleansing By Neglect
Hi Everybody, Michael Brooks here from the Majority Report. The Majority Reportis a daily progressive talk show and Podcast hosted by Sam Seder. We take deep dives into policy and also do a lot of...
View ArticleA Tragic Legacy of the Bush Administration
Many bad policies came out of the Bush Administration. I have neither the energy or the time to catalog them here. What I would like to focus on is the terrible refugee situation playing out from the...
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Liz Cheney on the 'gratitude' Americans have for her torture-supporting father
I'm not sure why Bush administration Vice President Dick Cheney and his offspring Liz continue to pair up for their Sunday show appearances, unless we're just preparing for the inevitable day when...
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War Is Fun, by Liz and Dick
Grr. Argh. As their sudden reemergence on our televisions might indicate, Dick Cheney and offspring Liz have co-written a new book. It is, of course, about how awesome the Bush administration was and...
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In bid to derail Iran deal, Dick Cheney preaches to his choir
Yes, it's another picture of Dick Cheney looking creepy. There are no pictures in which he doesn't, so we're all stuck with it. So Dick Cheney crawled out of his little metal box in order to give his...
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Jeb Bush: My brother 'kept us safe.'
The above is a tweet sent out by Jeb Bush this morning, following up on his claim yesterday that "When it comes to my brother, there's one thing I know for sure. He kept us safe."And yes, that's a...
View ArticleThe IC Overclassifies Torture Docs
Steven Aftergood:The Central Intelligence Agency has improperly classified and withheld from release at least five categories of information related to its post-9/11 rendition, detention and...
View ArticleCongress-backed Interstate Oil Commission Called 911 When I Came To Ask About...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn October 1, I arrived at the Oklahoma City headquarters of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) — a congressionally-chartered collective of oil and gas...
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Jeb Bush on 9/11, yet again: 'My brother kept us safe'
The depth of Jeb! Bush's campaign incompetence continues to be a wee bit amazing. That up there would be his response to Donald Trump, who had the audacity to mention that the worst terrorist attack...
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'Fox & Friends' hosts say 9/11 was the fault of ... Bill Clinton
The preternaturally stupid morning show Fox & Friends continues to be the lead paint of news.“You might be madder, Donald Trump … at Bill Clinton for not taking a legitimate shot at somebody who...
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Jeb Bush and Sean Hannity agree: Let's blame Bill Clinton for 9/11!
From left to right: Iran-Contra guy, 9/11 guy, 9/11 guy's brother. We may need to inaugurate a new series, Sean Hannity is the lead paint of punditry. The Fox News "personality" was keen Monday night...
View ArticleTomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.What if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq in...
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Jeb Bush points to Benghazi as example of an 'incompetent foreign policy'
According to Jeb Bush, Republican would-be president and brother of the Republican president whose administration oversaw not just 9/11 itself, but deadly attacks on at least thirteen overseas...
View ArticleMy Evening with Ahmad Chalabi
Today, the world learned that Ahmad Chalabi, one of the major figures in the lead up to the war in Iraq, has died. As you may remember, neo-conservatives portrayed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National...
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George H.W. Bush goes off script. Sorry, Jeb?
Daaaaaad! Former President George H.W. Bush, aka Poppy Bush, has released a book. You have probably heard by now that it is distinctly unflattering to two members of the George W. Bush presidency; he...
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George H.W. Bush remembers his presidency while Jeb! defends Dubya
George Herbert Walker Bush waxes poetic on his past presidency:“I feel like an asterisk,” he told Mr. Meacham wistfully one day at the family’s cliffside house in Kennebunkport, Me. “I am lost between...
View ArticleDick Cheney: Trump sounds like a 'liberal Democrat' for criticizing the Bush...
Jeb Bush has been going around the country claiming his brother, President George, "kept this country safe." Donald Trump has been repeatedly declaring that 9/11 happened under George Bush's watch....
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: At this website, the book offers are coming fast...
View ArticleMajority Report: Rebecca Gordon: American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who...
Hi Everybody, Michael Brooks here from the Majority Report. The Majority Report is a daily progressive talk show and Podcast hosted by Sam Seder. We take deep dives into policy and also do a lot of...
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became "War" Policy in...
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: I think you're just great! What a response TD...
View ArticlePoutrage distractions peaking to protect #FakePOTUS
I'm still seeing lunatics trying to gin up further controversy over the "email scandal" of Hillary Clinton, perhaps as a continuing distraction from the actual, ongoing, multiple serious crimes that...
View ArticleGeneral Russel Honoré, led Katrina relief, says Trump 'doesn't give a damn...
Russel Honoré, the retired Army lieutenant general often hailed as a hero for leading relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, blasted President Donald Trump and the administration’s woefully...
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In Honor of John Bolton’s Return to the White House: American Idiot, A...
Now that the disastrous administration of George W. Bush has finally merged with the disastrous administration of Donald J. Trump, in the form of John Bolton, the notorious warmonger UnderSecretary of...
View ArticleSenate Democrats file Freedom of Information Act request to force release of...
We are now at the point where U.S. senators are having to file their own Freedom of Information Act requests to try to get records that the Trump Administration is refusing to let them see and their...
View ArticleWar criminal George W. Bush ranks third on renowned 'Most Admired' poll—where...
Gallup’s annual “Most Admired” poll can be fun to read, and yes, it’s smart to keep in mind that no poll can accurately reflect the sentiments of all Americans. Usually, there is agreement, or some...
View ArticleEx-press secretary Ari Fleischer pipes up to defend Bush's catastrophic war....
While the worst president in American history continues his robust program of golfing and covering up crimes, the crew surrounding the second-worst president in American history keeps up its efforts to...
View ArticleWOMENS RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SLIPPING AWAY UNDER TRUMP'S RULE
To discuss how dangerous President Trump in his policies and disregard to American democracy and international diplomacy, we need to go back to the Bush Administration and understand that U.S. did...
View ArticleA return to ‘The West Wing’ urges people to vote—while evoking idealism from...
This week saw a return of The West Wing to television, with the cast of the series reuniting as part of a get out the vote campaign in conjunction with the nonprofit organization When We All Vote,...
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