More News Late 7/21/06 -early 7/22/06
Bush and the NAACP: Too Much Left Unsaid The Strangely Unhumbled: How Can People Who Got it So Wrong Remain So Cocksure? U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for Israelis As Toll Rises, Lebanese Resort to Mass...
View ArticleNews and Views Quick Look Late July 29, 2006 - Early July 30, 2006
Seven Million Americans to Pay Thousands As They Fall Through the Donut Hole of Medicare Prescription Drug PlanDemocrats have solutions, but is anyone in charge in Congress listening?
View ArticleArmitage is Dragged Out and Publicly Flogged Again, Over a Week Later
Well, you had the Armitage outing and then Katrina anniverseries, then Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and their Nazi acts and what can we do now so the TV News watching public doesn't think too hard about...
View ArticleInsure CIA agents against a reckless administration, not terrorists' lawsuits...
Your Sept. 12 editorial "Jack Bauer Insurance" was a disservice not to me or to fictional characters like Jack Bauer, but to the very real CIA agents whose commitment to the truth didn't fit the...
View ArticleFormer Bush Administration Official Claims They are Silencing Critics and...
This is posted at The Washington Note in post "Flynt Leverett Blasts White House National Security Council Censorship of Former White House Officials Critical of Bush Policies" To make a long story...
View ArticleThe Truth about Iran (redacted)
NY Times has actually published the oped that the government didn't want to be presented to the public eyes in this more available form, well, at least from a Bush administration critic. The published...
View ArticleAnother military man to take charge of intelligence
Remember how many people objected to General Michael Hayden being put in charge of the CIA, but the Bush administration reassured us that civilian Negroponte was above him? Remember? Now Ret Vice...
View ArticleJ. Mike McConnell: Close Ties to Cheney. Consultancy Worked on Poindexter's...
Furthermore, according to Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball at Newsweek McConnell's consultancy Booz Allen was put up by the Bush administration as the watch dog over their sniffing of SWIFT...
View ArticleCarol Lam. You've uncovered a massive amount of bribery tied to earmarking...
Well, since the perps were important Republicans, get fired first off.
View ArticleWeekend News June 2-3, 2007
Center for Disease Control (CDC) to probe in-law's role in TB caseI was wondering when they would be getting around to checking out why the son-in-law of a CDC researcher on TB was able to elude...
View ArticleGet a Big Umbrella. They're spying on us with the U-2.
Okay, all kidding aside (even as I think in shock and horror of the high resolution spy planes taking pictures of my less than perfect back yard, a deep nonofficial undercover secret that only my...
View ArticleFormer Agent: CIA Handed Over Che For Execution
A UK Independent report "'We could have saved Che' from execution, says ex-CIA operative " shows that the CIA which wanted to keep Che alive for interrogation caved to the Bolivian army and handed him...
View ArticleJohn Bolton: CIA NIE Leak "Quasi-Putsch"
Yes, my friends informing the electorate is now treasonous. Well, maybe a harsh word like that will turn people against the old walrus mustache guy so Bolton called it somewhat treasonous as in a mini...
View ArticleWaterboarding is Not "Simulated" Drowning
I don't blame anyone for being mistaken about this fact. I was too when I only read mainstream articles on the practice, but...
View ArticlePraise Cheney and Libby for Outing Valerie Plame. They Just Got the Ball...
They didn't just out an NOC CIA agent. They presciently closed down a CIA cover organization in a program that the Bush administration later decided wasn't working.(That is if you don't believe that...
View ArticleIs Obama Breaking His Word? Will People Still Be Dragged off to Foreign...
One point I'd like to make before we start about the LA Times report on Obama supposedly keeping rendition and torture as a tool in the war on terror is that The Clinton administration used rendition,...
View ArticleRepublican Senator Taunts Panetta Over Information On Which the Nominee Has...
You can't rely on ... 'news stories" said Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond.Panetta responded politely despite the taunt which seemed to come from a schoolyard bully instead of one vested in the...
View ArticleBush Administration CIA Decided on Torture Techniques w/o Understanding...
The interrogation methods used in the military SERES program were adapted into the Bush administration's harsh program because none of the leaders deciding on it bothered to find out where the...
View ArticleIntelligence Sources Cheney is Wrong About Proof That Bush Administration...
Jonathon S. Landy and Warren P. Stroebel of the Boston Herald in xx have examined Dick Cheney's words on how he and bush (though his speeches and TV appearances have shown clearly who was actually...
View ArticleHarsh Interrogations Mostly Micromanaged From Washington During Bush...
The New York Times is reporting that though the news reports of the last few days focused on the aberrations of a few interrogators, most of the harsh treatment was micromanaged from above.Of course,...
View ArticleGoogle the Friendly Spy is Suddenly Teaming Up With the CIA
Remember how Google has assured us that its spying on our searches was just to deliver a better search result, meanwhile spying on our gmail was just for advertising purposes, and it was all just a...
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