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« Previous EntriesWhite House Defends ‘Waterboarding’ Torture
Thursday, February 7th, 2008The White House is defending the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding in certain, rare circumstances when suspects are believed to have knowledge of an imminent threat. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the Central Intelligence Agency now admits it used the technique roughly five years ago on three top terror suspects.
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The Emails that Dick Cheney Deleted
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Harper's Magazine Late last week, right after official White House spokesmen made a series of either evasive or completely false statements about the mysterious case of the vanishing, then reappearing, then perhaps no really vanished White House emails, Henry Waxman and his Oversight Committee announced some of the conclusions they had reached. Dan Eggen and Elizabeth Williamson published an account of it on Friday in the Washington Post: The ...
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VIDEO: Criminal Probe Of CIA Tapes
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008"New heat on the White House"
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White House Can Keep Its Secrets - For Now
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Bush Admin. May Keep Visitor Records Private While Appealing Court Decision To Open Files AP A federal judge agreed Friday to let the Bush administration keep secret the lists of visitors to the White House until an appeals court decides whether the documents are public records. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted the White House request five days after ordering the Secret Service to turn over the records to ...
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VIDEO: CIA trying to undermine the White House?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. She is the author of Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the U.N. Defy U.S. Power.
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What are they hiding?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007A federal judge has taken a significant step in dismantling the wall of secrecy the Bush administration has needlessly built around the White House. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that White House visitors logs were public records and that the public had a right to see them. The logs, maintained by the Secret Service, had been public until 2006, when the Bush administration, which adheres to the principle that its business is nobody's ...
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Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007The Times The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said. Debat ...
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Miami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Friday, August 24th, 2007Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States. The defense lawyers submitted that the prosecution committed serious procedural errors and used intimidation to pressure the jury of the initial trial, which took place in Miami in a climate of apparent hostility toward the five heroes. For the ...
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Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks
Friday, August 24th, 2007Yahoo [via Granma International] flamesong 20th August 2007 The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost half a century and then only by mistake, Fidel Castro wrote in an essay published on Friday. The ailing Cuban leader, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, said he had refused to ...
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The CIA proposed that I assassinate Fidel in Chile, Veciana confesses
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Founder of Alpha 66, identified as an accomplice in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy Granma International It was the CIA that informed Antonio Veciana Blanch, 10 months ahead of time, of a visit to Chile by the president of Cuba; it proposed he should organize Fidel’s assassination, directed him to carry it out in a press conference and provided his transportation with weapons to Santiago in a U.S. ...
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Report: White House says spying broader than previously admitted
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Reuters The Bush administration's top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a letter that other aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program remain classified, the Post said. "That is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can ...
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The White House Has a Manual for Silencing Protesters and Demonstrations
Sunday, July 15th, 2007By Matthew Rothschild After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to do so. So the truth comes out. After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to do ...
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Impeach Dick Cheney
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Impeachcheney.org That's right, we said the "I" word. And you should be saying it too -- to your family, your friends, your neighbors, your pets and the hearty 26% of Americans who somehow still believe the Bush/Cheney team more worthy of sitting in the Oval Office than an undisclosed location stripped of all authority to further damage the country we love. You'll want to say it even more after watching our ...
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Former CIA Official Exposes Bush Administration Fraud
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Flynt Leverett worked as a senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, the NSC, and he was a CIA analyst. http://representativepress.blogspot.com The Bush Administration has committed fraud before. See background information on the fraud committed by the Bush Administration to get us into the Iraq War: The Problem Was Not "Faulty Intelligence," the ...
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How Cheney abused his power in war on terror
Sunday, July 1st, 2007By Tim Shipman Vice-President Dick Cheney was personally responsible for American policies that subjected terrorist suspects to cruelty and denied them the right to a fair trial, according to revelations from senior US government officials.
Dick Cheney now looks like a 'comic ...
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