Text of President Obama's Speech at Cairo University in Egypt

It has been referred to as possibly one of the most important speeches to be delivered to date, a speech to address the Muslim world, offered by President Barack Obama. Addressing a capacity crowd at the Grand Hall...

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...

Pro-Lifer Laments His Role in Abortion Doctor's Death

Frank Schaeffer accepts responsibility for the role he and his father, the late Francis Schaeffer, played in the radicalization of the pro life movement, sharing the blame, in addition to his father, with others...

Myths and Falsehoods Surrounding Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination

This article notes Conservatives and the Republican Party, especially Right Wing elements within the Party, came out in opposition of any potential nominee for the Supreme Court that...

In Order to Form a More Perfect Union

The United States Supreme Court, which buttresses the concept of the United States of America, is an institution attempting to evolve toward perfection, using as its instrument the Constitution of the United...

Judge Sotomayor's Comments Mirror Justices Scalia and Alito

Since President Obama first announced Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals of New York as his nominee, Conservatives have been raising their voices, trumpeting the...

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...

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...

Torture Memo Author Declines to Appear Before Senate Commission

Jay S. Bybee, currently a sitting federal judge on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, has declined, through his attorneys, to appear before the Senate Subcommittee of Administrative Oversight and...

VP Dick Cheney's Office Suggested Waterboarding Iraqi Prisoner

Former producer and investigative reporter for NBC News, Robert Windrem, reports that two U.S. intelligence officials confirmed the office of Vice President Cheney suggested waterboarding one of Saddam...

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...

Investigation Underway Concerning Tapes Destroyed By CIA in 2005

A Justice Department special counsel, appointed by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey of the Bush administration in December 2007, is investigating the destruction of hundreds of hours of...