Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
May 11, 2012
By Andy Worthington While Rodriguez — like John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and senior Bush administration officials, up to and including the president —
By Andy Worthington While Rodriguez — like John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and senior Bush administration officials, up to and including the president —
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry claimed they would reinstate illegal programs that have been dismissed by experts as ineffective and illegal. They have
Thursday 15 July 2010 by: Jason Leopold, reprinted from TruthOut.org (make sure to support TruthOut with a donation today) Jay Bybee, who as a senior
Reprinted with permission (and creative commons) from TruthOut.org Don’t forget, it is very important to support independent journalist sites like TruthOut.org by Jason Leopold –
Guantanamo Review Task Force – Download Report Guantanamo detainee report is out. It states that 126 detainees should be sent back home or handed over to
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in lower Manhattan. Republicans immediately went into their highly predictable panic
As of today, there are 23 agents who are international fugitives after an Italian court ruled in the abduction of a cleric in Milan. NYTimes
First, here are the documents that have been released by the FBI detailing the interview with Dick Cheney: Cheney Interview Transcript FBI Outline Notes FBI
Andy Worthington has a good new article on Judge Baltasar Garzon’s investigation of John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld and others who set up the
http://www.cheneywatch.org/documents/torture/cia-ksm-docs08242009.pdf The documents Cheney requested are now released, redacted of course, and they do little to foster his view. Reading over the reports above, its
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
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
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
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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
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.
(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
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
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
Larry Wilkerson appeared on Rachel Maddow with up close insight to the Bush/Cheney administration:
Mark Danner appeared on Washington Journal. Unfortunately I didn’t know until he was about half way through. He’s a solid reporter and knows his beat.
Will Canada arrest George Bush when he visits Calgary today? Canada has laws regarding people suspected of war crimes visiting their country. Stay tuned to
The Italian Constitutional Court has ruled that prosecutors violated “state secrecy laws” in building their case against Italian and U.S. agents who are accused of
From http://www.peaceteam.net From We want you to know that we are gearing up for actions on many critical and substantive issues, health care, mass media
On Wednesday, March 4, 2009, Patrick Leahy convened a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the creation of a “Truth and Consequences Commission”
A staff member for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said today that the deposition hearing scheduled for Monday, Feb. 23, for Karl Rove, the infamous
Even with a pending subpoena and the chance that he could face prosecution for his involvement in the politicization of the Department of Justice, Karl
During the Cheney/Bush Administration we saw many examples of judicial manipulation. From the Department of Justice attorney firings to the commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence,
While the Obama administration keeps talking about ‘looking forward’ and not ‘looking back’, a vast majority of Americans support investigation, including criminal investigation, for Dick
There is rarely joy to be found in prosecution. This process of holding someone accountable is loaded with frustration from the get go. But without