Posted on February 20th, 2010 by Scott Nance
The Justice Department may have declined to take action against two Bush-era officials who provided critical support for torture techniques, but that doesn’t mean Jay Bybee and John Yoo are off the hook.
Obama administration officials won’t pursue disciplinary action against Bybee and Yoo, both of whom worked at Justice during the Bush administration and wrote [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, CIA, Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Department Of Justice, In The News, National Security, Obama Administration, Terrorism
Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Eric Black at the Minnesota Post broke this story yesterday:
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, CIA, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Today, the Obama Administration’s Justice Department stepped up to reveal some of the Bush Administration’s many secrets and “released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.”
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Bush Admin, CIA, Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, Democrats, Department Of Justice, In The News, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans
Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Hart Williams
It is Buzz Windrip’s dream come true, the wet dream of Tricky Dick Nixon, the paranoid fantasy of a thousand “libertarian” science fiction writers, right-wing columnists, lefty conspiracy theorists, and now it’s come true: We ARE living in a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Conspiracy Theorists, Dick Nixon, Director [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Homeland Security, National Security, Terrorism
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Robert Freedland
It is informative to read excerpts from the 1974 Justice Committee after the Watergate fiasco.
Especially pertinent are the quotes from our founding fathers who explained their understanding of the role of impeachment proceedings.
As Edmund Randolph explained:
“The Executive will have great opportunitys of abusing his power; particularly in time of war when the military force, and [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Judicial, Politics, Supreme Court
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Robert Freedland
Do you ever have times when you shake your head in disbelief and don’t think it can get any worse?
It isn’t funny anymore.
It wasn’t funny when the Government gagged the climate scientists from speaking about polar bears at international meetings.
It wasn’t funny when President Bush put the gag on women’s clinics in Africa by denying [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, CIA, Dick Cheney, Global Warming
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Robert Freedland
Only Keith Olbermann can say it the way it needs to be said.
Thank you Mr. Olbermann.
This is not a question about the right of the President to pardon or commute the sentence of any American convicted of a crime. This is about the future of the Republic. Whether this nation is a nation [...]
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Filed under: Breaking News, CIA, Dick Cheney, Human Rights, JFK, Karl Rove, National Security, News Media, Political News Shows, Supreme Court, YouTube
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Hart Williams
Propaganda is the ring of Sauron.
Those who read THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, or, perhaps, saw the movies, will recall that the Ring is a ring of power, and that it is, finally, always evil.
No one can use the power of the ring without succumbing to evil, no matter how earnestly they intend doing [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Conservatives, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Karl Rove, Politics, Republicans
Posted on June 21st, 2007 by BobHiggins
The EDSA Revolution, also referred to as the People Power Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986, was a mostly non-violent mass demonstration in the Philippines. Four days of peaceful action by millions of Filipinos led to the downfall of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and the installation of Corazon Aquino as president of the [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Conservatives, Dick Cheney, International, Iraq, Politics, Republicans
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Hart Williams
These are actually (if unpopularly in some circles) truths:
That Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative.
That someone above Scooter Libby committed a felony in ‘outing’ her and that we all pretty much know who.
That it is illegal wiretap without going through the FISA court. Each instance is a separate felony.
That George W. Bush knowingly went [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Iraq, Politics, Republicans
