By 2003 Bush Admin Knew 9/11 Repeat Was Unlikely

The Bush Administration continually hyped the 'Al Qaeda/Bin Laden' boogeyman spectre of another 9/11, even while their own CIA, which was torturing prisoners, possibly IN ORDER TO extract false confessions/false...

US Armed Forces Data Mining Info Source? No Child Left Behind Act

In today's technological age, any and all manner of information can be harvested by almost anyone, usually, in most cases, within certain limits. I can't really say why but, I'm always surprised when I get a...

Physicians for Human Rights: More Torture Investigation Needed

In an eight page paper entitled, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Revealed in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report, Physicians for Human Rights...

Sibel Edmonds Deposition: Deep Corruption Beneath the Surface

By Erik LarsonEDIT 8/25/09: Deposition Video and Transcript Released! http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7374Aug 8, 2009, Sibel Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous...

Ex-Gitmo prisoner: US tortured me with needles, IV tubes

Another Gitmo prisoner has come forward to describe the torture he received at Guantanamo Bay.  And, no, there was no "ticking bomb" Hollywood-ish scenario this time either.  Lakdar Boumediene was never...

Cheney Defended Torture to Some Lawmakers in Key Meetings

Former Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney is reported to have attended at least four CIA briefing meetings, defending the techniques that have been revealed in the torture memos, at key points in...

Conservative Talk Show Host 'Mancow' is Waterboarded

Shortly after 6 seconds, WLS radio host Erich 'Mancow' Muller signaled Marine Sergeant Clay South, who handled the waterboarding demonstration, that he had had enough. Stating he had wanted to...

Zero to Torture in Six Seconds - Mancow Learns the Hard Way

Mancow Muller has a big mouth, and he’s proud of it! After all, talking is what this shock jock from Chicago does for a living. So it was a surprise, when after a mere six seconds, Mancow changed his tune about...

GQ Reports Pentagon Papers Contained Bible Verses From Rumsfeld

According to GQ Magazine, in an article about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, September 10, 2003 was the first morning the daily briefing memo prepared entitled Worldwide Intelligence Update,...

Coalition Seeks to Disbar Bush Administration Torture Lawyers

Twelve attorneys, alleged to have advocated torture during the administration of former President George W. Bush, have been named in disciplinary complaints to state bar licensing boards in the five...

Nancy Pelosi v CIA: Water-boarding

Water-boarding, a torture technique, authorized by Bush administration for use over POWs is on the crossfire nowadays. Also, Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, is the center of attention regarding this issue. "Nancy...

Former FBI Interrogator Dispels Claim of Usefulness of Torture

Ali Soufan, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogator, instrumental in gathering information from one of the so called high profile prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Zubaydah,...

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture May 13, 2009 at 10:00AM EST

The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts begins a hearing entitled What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office of Legal Council in the Bush Administration. Among those...

Op-Ed: The Torture Debate - The Missing Voices

Citing the April 2009 release of the International Committee of the Red Cross' (ICRC) report on the abuse of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the recently released torture memos, which circulated...

Events Come Full Circle: Possible Avoidance of Accountability

George W. Bush, former two term 43rd President of the United States of America has been quoted as saying, in reference to his successor, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama: “I want the...

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