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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...
View ArticleCanada Charges Syrian Officer Over Maher Arar Torture
Canada has charged a Syrian intelligence officer with torturing Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen taken to Syria for a year via extraordinary rendition by American authorities for suspected...
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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...
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