Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility represented the “worst of the worst.” “If you think of the people down there, these are people, all of whom were captured on a battlefield,” Rumsfeld [...]
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Also tagged Abdul Rashid Dostum, Adel Hassan Hamad, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Beth Jones, Bounties, Cofer Black, Colin Powell, CSRT, Detainees, Dick Cheney, DOD, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Indefinite Detention, Intelligence, Iraq War, Jack Straw, Lawrence Wilkerson, Liz Cheney, Lying Liars, Pakistan, Pentagon, Pierre Prosper, Rendition, Richard Myers, Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, SOF, Torture
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In 1776, our founding fathers made a bold pronouncement: that all men are created equal, that we were endowed with inalienable rights, and, among these were Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Enshrined in our Constitution were more bold pronouncements: that no man could be deprived of his rights, that no man [is] above the [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Cindy Sheehan, Condoleezza Rice, Constitution, David Addington, David Vitter, Dick Cheney, DOJ, FBI, George W Bush, Joe Darby, John Yoo, Law, Mark Foley, Mark Klein, Mike Connell, NSA, Ray McGovern, Rule of Law, Sibel Edmonds, Surveillance, Telecoms, Tyler Drumheller, Warrantless Wiretaps, Wiretapping
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Senior Bush administration officials, including former President George W. Bush himself, have been asked to give testimony before a British committee investigating the basis for the invasion of Iraq, according to a published report. Other officials contacted by the panel include former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The legal issues can’t really be fully assessed without much more information than has been reported so far, but I see three separate problems—in ascending order of significance: Appropriated funds. Specific rules govern the use of congressionally appropriated funds, requiring the money to be used for the purpose for which it was in fact approved. [...]
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Also tagged Assassinations, CIA, Civilians, Contractors, Courts, Detainees, Geneva Conventions, Law, Laws of War, Military, Military Tribunals, Predator Drones, Propaganda
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Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Corporatism, Corruption, Crime, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, George W Bush, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Law, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Rule of Law, War Crimes, William Rivers Pitt
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The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis’s narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast [...]
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Also tagged Adam Curtis, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Anwar Al Sadat, Ayman al-Zawahiri, BBC, Bill Clinton, CIA, Dick Cheney, Documentary, Egypt, Extremists, Fear, Gamal Abdel Nasser, George HW Bush, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Iraq War, Irving Kristol, Islam, Leo Strauss, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neo-Conservatives, Osama bin Laden, Paul Wolfowitz, Power of Nightmares, Rendition, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia, Sayyid Qutb, Taliban, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Torture
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Apart from WMD there was no other conceivable foundation for an invasion. Using force to produce regime change on humanitarian grounds is not permissible under international law, and the attorney general told Blair as much in July 2002. Nor is there any way that the security council would have authorised it later on that year [...]
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Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, Crime, David Addington, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Invasion, Iraq War, John Yoo, Law, Sovereignty, War Crimes
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
President Barack Obama appears set to approve a dramatic increase in troops in Afghanistan. The original goal of the U.S. effort there was to find and capture Osama bin Laden. Why is Washington not still seeking the man who allegedly masterminded the attack on American on Sept. 11, 2001? In an Oct. 7, 2008, debate, [...]
by Neal Mackay Sunday Herald 13 July 2003 Investigation: Neil Mackay reveals why everyone now accepts that claims Saddam Hussein got uranium from Africa are fraudulent … except, that is, Britain’s beleaguered prime minister and his Cabinet supporters In February 1999, Wissam Al Zahawie, the Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, set off on [...]
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Also tagged CIA, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, George W Bush, Greg Thielmann, Henry Waxman, IAEA, Intelligence, Iraq War, Jack Straw, Joe Wilson, Mohammed El-Baradei, Niger Yellowcake Forgeries, PDB, Richard Kerr, State Department, Tony Blair, UK, UN, UNMOVIC, Valerie Plame, Wissam Al Zahawie
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