CIA Inspector Report released
http://www.cheneywatch.org/documents/torture/cia_oig_report.pdf Here is the long awaited report. Many new details have been released. We are reading the document and will elaborate the details here. And we will publish the news coverage related to this story. Stay tuned….
Documents By Chronology:
Documents By Chronology: The attacks on September 11, 2001 were the catalyst for the “war on terror”– and for a legal revolution in assertions of broad powers for the Commander-in-Chief. In this chronological library of 34 documents, it is possible to chart the decision-making that led to interrogations of prisoners in U.S. custody that were […]
Is Eric Holder going to appoint a special prosecutor?
Reports are flying that Eric Holder has read the soon, supposedly, to be released, supposedly, CIA torture report. Will Eric Holder be compelled to investigate the torture program? At the same time we are reading that Dick Cheney instructed the CIA to withhold information to the Congress about a “program” that background talkers saying never […]
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SCOTUS hates accountability regarding CIA Leak Case
Today we learn that the Supreme Court of the United States will not hear the appeal filed by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson in their case against Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Richard Armitage, and others. The decision marks yet another example of the unaccountable government you live under in the United States. The illusion of […]
Whitehouse Condemns Nation's "Descent into Torture" During Bush Years
Sheldon Whitehouse laid the truth on the Senate floor the other night: Full text from Sen. Whitehouse site at Senate.gov June 9, 2009 Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I wish to now change the subject and speak about an incident that is not part of anybody’s proud heritage and that is the evidence we have recently […]
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney
(Thanks to our friends’ site: NoQuarterUSA.net for heads up on this. Thank you to Steve Clemons for allowing us reprint the full text with Col. Wilkerson’s and Steve Clemons’ express permission from The Washington Note.) This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of […]
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon continues inquiry
Reuters is reporting that Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon is going to continue with investigation of the Cheney/Bush Administration officials involved with torture at Guantanamo. Earlier in the day, the Spanish Attorney General moved to dismiss the charges. This is on the heels of the Obama Administration’s grand failure to keep the promise of accountability and […]
Secret Torture Memos released
Secret Torture Memos have been released by the Obama Administration. These memos show the administration did willfully violate U.S. law and international laws and treaties by seeking to give legal cover for interrogation techniques that clearly cross the line into illegal treatment of detainees. Here are the memos by Jay Bybee and Steven G. Bradbury […]
Larry Wilkerson on Rachel Maddow covering the Cheney Administration
Larry Wilkerson appeared on Rachel Maddow with up close insight to the Bush/Cheney administration: