Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely By Dafna Linzer and Peter FinnProPublica and Washington Post Staff WriterFrom The Washington Post | Original Article Obama administration officials, fearing a…
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6-23-09 What Bush Told Blair Could End the Wars
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article In May 2005 we launched AfterDowningStreet.org to publicize the Downing Street Minutes. By June we’d had great, if fleeting, success. During the following months…
6-22-09 The Secret History
By Jane Mayer From The New Yorker | Original Article The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few…
6-22-09 Bush officials: Where are they now?
The unemployment rate is high around the country – but not for former Bush officials. A guide to who’s cashing in By Nick Turse From Salon.com | Original Article Editor’s note: This…
6-15-09 Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program
ACLU NEWS RELEASE CIA Continues To Suppress Information From Detainee Tribunals With Heavy RedactionsNEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in whichGuantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they…
6-14–09 Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture
By John Schwartz From The New York Times | Original Article The decision issued late Friday by a judge in San Francisco allowing a civil lawsuit to go forward against a former…
6-11-09 ACLU Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure Of Still-Secret Torture Documents
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit seeking thedisclosure of still-secret records relating to the torture of prisoners held by theU.S. overseas. The requested documents include legal…
6-8-09 DOJ Torture Emails-How the Times Could Have Reported the Story
From TPM | Original Article By Zachary Roth Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Justice Department lawyers agreed in 2005 that harsh interrogation techniques were legal. The impact of…
5-25-09 Obama’s Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
by Marjorie Cohn From marjoriecohn.com | Original Article Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and…
5/21/09 Neocon Group Calls for Military Strikes on Media
by Jeremy Scahill from AntiWar.com | Original Article In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to…
5/18/09 Obama’s Animal House
by James Petras from Information Clearing House | Original Article “The Deltas are psychos. You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force”, a US Army colonel from Fort…
5-19-09 Who the Hell is Stanley McChrystal?
By Tim Heffernan From Esquire | Original Article Barely a week ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a major change in the United States’s prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. General David…
CCR Guantanamo Attorneys Comment After Obama 5/21 Speech
From CommonDreams.org | Original Article NEW YORK – May 21 – Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner and Managing Attorney for CCR’s Guantanamo project Shayana Kadidal responded with disappointment to President…
How Torture Trapped Colin Powell
by Ray McGovern, May 18, 2009 From ConsortiumNews.com | Original Article Four days before trying to sell the invasion of Iraq to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell was ready…
Cheney’s Role Deepens
By Robert Windrem, May 21, 2009 From The Daily Beast | Original Article Former NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who…