The 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 Article"Today I learned I got my freedoms back": 7 Americans ALLOWED off No-Fly List.
Government's Secretive "No-Fly List" Regime Crumbling, says ACLUMarking the first major victory against the U.S. government's secretive 'No Fly List' on Friday, seven people who challenged their...
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