By Ray McGovern From ConsortiumNews.Com | Original Article The stenographers of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) are missing the most obvious explanation for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s widely reported “disappointment” with former…
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8-9-09 A Talk With Andy Worthington
Click here for an audio transcript of a conference call with Andy Worthington, author of the Guantanamo Files and numerous articles exposing the abuse and torture of those the U.S. has designated…
8-7-09 Admin asks SCOTUS to block photos
by Josh Gerstein From Politico | Original Article The Obama Administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the public release of detainee abuse photos that were the subject of a high-profile reversal…
8-4-09 Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
By Jeremy Scahill From The Nation | Original Article A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of…
8-4-09 Hotel Guantanamo: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
By Andy Worthington From AlterNet | Original Article The Obama administration is still refusing to release prisoners who have been found to pose no threat to the U.S. What is going on?…
7-26-09 Cheney’s defense of the indefensible
By Robyn E. Blumner From the St. Petersburg Times | Original Article Dick Cheney was the ultimate puppet master. The former vice president had a direct hand in the administration’s most unconscionable…
7-26-09 Secrets of CIA ‘ghost flights’ to be revealed
Guantánamo detainee’s lawyers hail UK air firm’s U-turn that allows rendition case to go to court By Jamie Doward From Guardian.Co.UK | Original Article Protest in support of Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed…
7-24-09 The Risks of a Partial Prosecution
By David Swanson From AfterDowingStreet.org | Original Article If Attorney General Eric Holder creates a special prosecutor for torture but forbids him or her to prosecute the lawyers who facilitated torture…
7-19-09 A Talk With Candace Gorman
Click here for an audio transcript of this very interesting conference call in which Candace Gorman talks about the prisoners she represents who are being held in Guantanamo.
7-14-09 Will Attorney General Eric Holder’s Torture Probe Let Senior Bush Officials Off the Hook?
By Jeremy Scahill From AlterNet | Original Article Anti-torture lawyers argue that any investigation must target the whole torture system, including its legal architects and those who gave the orders. Lawyers from…
7-12-09 Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed
White House Has Resisted Inquiry By Carrie JohnsonFrom The Washington Post | Original Article Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is leaning toward appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether CIA personnel…
7-8-09 Is Texas Harboring a Torture Decider?
By Ray McGovern From OpEdNews | Original Article Seldom does a crime scene have so clear a smoking gun. A two-page presidential memorandum of Feb. 7, 2002, leaves no room for uncertainty…
7-1-09 To Critics, New Policy on Terror Looks Old
By Charlie Savage From The New York Times | Original Article WASHINGTON — Civil libertarians recently accused President Obama of acting like former President George W. Bush, citing reports about Mr. Obama’s plans…
7-1-09 10 Most Wanted War Criminals
From Code Pink | Original Article Karl Rove Full Name: Karl Christian Rove Aliases: Turd Blossom, Boy Genius, MC Rove, Bush’s Brain Date of Birth: December 25, 1950 Occupation: Senior Advisor…
6-29-09 Cheney’s Top Torture Lawyers Now Work for Obama
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article We’ve heard of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, and maybe even Jay Bybee. Some of us recall John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey, and even David…