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Dissenting Torture Memo Bush Administration Tried to Destroy Released
Philip Zelikow, former counselor of the US State Dept A State Department internal memo opposing the Justice Department’s arguments for CIA “enhanced interrogation techniques”—torture—has been released....
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The Bipartisan Witch Hunt for Leakers in the Obama Administration
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (photo: US Congress) (update below) Forty years ago, two reporters widely considered to be heroes of investigative journalism broke the story of the Watergate scandal. They...
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In Lawsuit, GOP Senators Want to Help Obama Administration Preserve Military...
Sens. Lindsey Graham & John McCain in Kabul, Afghanistan in October 2009 (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Jeffrey M. Richardson) Senators from the Republican Party have...
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Not Reading the Boston Bomber Suspect His Miranda Rights
(update below) During the press conference after Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested and taken to a hospital seriously injured, FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick Deslauriers told...
View ArticleJohn McCain Cites Islamic State As Bigger Threat Than Climate Change
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told host Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation, the Sunday political talk show on CBS, that President Barack Obama needs to focus on the Islamic State rather than climate change....
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Déjà vu on Interrogation “Reform”: McCain/Feinstein Amendment Won’t Stop Torture
“There’s truth that lives and truth that dies…” – Leonard Cohen In a bizarre mixture of the sincere and the insincere, an amendment proposed by a bipartisan group of senators to the upcoming National...
View ArticleTrump deep throats both feet
You can be forgiven if you had concluded that Donald Trump had redefined stupid by alienating all Latino voters, who make up the second largest ethnic group in the U.S., with his false and racist...
View ArticleEnraged Political Establishment Would Have Been Okay With Chelsea Manning...
The political establishment in the United States is absolutely irate at President Barack Obama’s decision to commute U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence. There are also an array of...
View ArticleJohn McCain Struggles To Defend Pax Americana In Munich
On Friday, Senator John McCain spoke at the at the 2017 Munich Security Conference to give his best defense for the neoliberal world order crumbling all around him. His speech—at times shrill and...
View ArticlePause In CIA Arms Program Has Syrian Rebels Worried
Since at least 2012, the United States has been supporting armed groups trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. It has always been a difficult alliance because many of the rebel groups...
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