Torture Accountability Action Day

David Swanson: Only by prosecuting torture can we end it

Wilsons v. Bush Admn. Case Knocked Out by The Supreme Court

Joe and Valerie Wilson's civil case against Bush administration officials for exposing Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment reached a dead end this week when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the case...

Never Any Evidence Tying Iraq to 9/11, Says Former VP Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter were interviewed by FOX News' Greta van Susteren Monday,  Cheney said there was never any evidence tying Iraq and 9/11.  After 4,308...

Cheney's Daughter Defends Dick's Torture Legacy

Liz Cheney's was on GMA this morning. She stated that water boarding was NOT torture! Stated that this was a good program I couldn't believe what I was hearing. When your drowning someone isn't that torture? Did...

Tamiflu Scandal: Gilead Sciences' Donald Rumsfeld Connection

Tamiflu is being touted as the best way to combat the H1N1 Swine Flu virus which has communities around the world in a pandemic panic, but is there a hidden agenda behind the push?  Tamiflu is only one of two readily available anti-viral medications, yet Relenza isn't...

Spain Launches Criminal Investigation Into US Torture at Gitmo

According to this report, Spain is doing what President Obama should be doing: a criminal investigation into the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. " Despite rhetoric coming from the White House that...

Liz Cheney Defends her Dad, Dick Cheney, for Torturing People

Another Republican has come forward in a desperate attempt to defend the torture practiced by the Bush administration.  This time it is Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney claiming on MSNBC that waterboarding...

Senator Inhofe Reviews Obama Defense Budget

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Monday, delivered a detailed review of the Obama administration’s proposed cuts to the Department of...

David Axelrod Slams Dick Cheney: Al Qaeda is Still in Business

Vice President Cheney has used his public appearances in recent months to launch fearmongering attacks against the Obama administration, in contrast to President Bush, who said Obama “deserves my silence.”...

Force Congress To Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!

Author, researcher and Berkeley Professor Emeritus and former U.S. Representative Dan Hamburg (D-CA) are appealing to the readers of this post to contact your representatives in Congress to demand that they meet,...

Did Hell Freeze Over? Condi Rice Defends President Obama

During her appearance on the Tonight Show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice complimented the Obama administration and said that "we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it." This was in...

MSNBC: Cheney war crimes probe would be “shortest in history”

If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, “it would be the shortest investigation in history,” Turley said on a Monday episode of...

John Dean on MSNBC: Dick Cheney may be guilty of "murder"

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s bombshell earlier this week that Vice President Dick Cheney controlled an “executive assassination ring” continues to reverberate throughout Washington, with Nixon aide...

Whistleblower speaks out on KBR-Halliburton electrocutions VIDEO

Defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root knowingly performed substandard electrical work in Iraq and threatened workers who “made a lot of noise” about shoddy construction and maintenance, according to...

$125bn Iraq fraud dwarfs Madoff

Investigations begin in US military officers involvement in what could easily be billed as the scam of the century in Iraq's so-called rebuilding after the US invasion and the Muslim nation's carpet bombing under President Bush. "In what could turn out to be the greatest...

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