On Thursday, July 2, 2009, a U.S. soldier was captured in Afghanistan for the first time since the war started in 2001. At the same time Operation Khanjar is being rolled out, the "low-level" Afghani soldiers who caught the U.S. private sold him to a militant insurgent group...
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A section of the leftists in the United States is blaming the Central Intelligence Agency of fomenting trouble in Iran, but other progressives are accusing their own kind of becoming apologists of the theocracy."Iran situation has left the political left in the United States...
Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...
As the world prepares to observe June 26 as an international day against torture, countless secular Baluch activists who think Allah has no business in politics are missing and face torture in Pakistani military...
The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...
On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder characterized the delay in the release of the Office of Professional Responsibility's...
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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...
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Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...
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Is White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs channeling George W. Bush?In an amazing statement today, Gibbs questioned the accuracy of the entire British news media. The same British news media that broke the...
Non-office holder, unelected, professional lobbyist Newt Gingrich got caught with his pants down again. No, it wasn't adultery on his third wife, but rather his attacks against Nancy Pelosi for daring to say that...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a Hmong refugee camp in Northern Thailand in protest at the Thai governments treatment of...
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"Since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested that the CIA misled her in 2002 concerning its use of waterboarding, the Republican Party has been attempting to paint her claims as outrageous.Former CIA special...
Recently House Minority Leader John Boehner demanded that the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi prove that the CIA lied to her or apologize. Unelected non-office holder, professional corporate lobbyist Newt...
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...
Fox and CNN are both giving this heavy coverage. It couldbecome a debate over who knew what and when and what they did."Speaker Nancy Pelosi's deputy in the House declined to back her up on her stunning...