Journalist, Illegally Held in Gitmo Jail by Bush Admn, Speaks Out

"Vice President Dick Cheney once claimed that “all the detainees” being held in the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay “were bad people.” That statement has been debunked numerous times, proving that the Bush administration locked up innocent people with a sweeping...

Accountability for Iraq War: Indict Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld

The best reporting about Iraq War abuses by the US Military is not appearing in US papers and news outlets. Surely, there are reports, but I find this one by the Guardian among the best. The news is gruesome and...

Dick Cheney Hospitalized For Mild Heart Attack

Former Vice Preisdent Dick Cheney was hospitalized at George Washington University Hospital on Monday, February 22, 2009 citing chest pains, according to a statement from his office. "His doctors are evaluating the situation and he is resting comfortably," his office...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney hospitalized with chest pains

" An aide to Dick Cheney says the former U.S. vice president is in George Washington Hospital after experiencing chest pains."The former vice president has a history of heart related problems.  He was...

Republicans have some explaining to do

Before departing and writing some more for my own blog, and as I have a deep sense of irony - political irony to boot, I thought I would respond to this story on NowPublic, because it did take me aback somewhat. Blaming the president of the USA for the Christmas Day attempted...

Gibbs dismisses Cheney's remarks as "typical"

Press Secty Robert Gibbs said that Cheney's charges that the Obama Administration's CIA probe was "political"  were "unfounded" remarks,  and "typical"  of the former Vice President.  It is true...

Secret Program cancelled by Panetta was plan to target Al Quaeda

Last week Democratic Senators were referring to a CIA briefing by Leon Panetti, that alleged that a secret CIA program had been canceled by Panetti that had been kept from Congress. As the story developed there...

Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project

"The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E....

Obama is a Neocon Liar

The following is my commentary concerning, "UN Official Demands Torture Accountability," (by Edger. Antemedius.com. July 2, 2009) and specifically Edger's comment at the end of that post as follows, "Where is the...

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...

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...

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