Cheney Intervened in CIA Inspector General’s Torture Probe 22 May 2009 Jason Leopold, | t r u t h o u t
Former Vice President Dick Cheney intervened in CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s investigation into the agency’s use of torture against "high-value" [...]
Cheney Lost to Bush New York Times By DAVID BROOKS May 21, 2009
President Obama and Dick Cheney conspired on Thursday to propagate a myth. The myth is that we lived through an [...]
Mississippi City Known for Klan Killings Elects Its First Black Mayor New York Times By ROBBIE BROWN May 21, 2009
The city of Philadelphia, Miss., where members of the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights workers in 1964 in one of the era’s most infamous acts, on Tuesday elected its first [...]
A Blight On Humanity the left coaster by Turkana 05/21/2009
Paul Krugman has a short but withering post about the fraud that was American conservatism. Riffing off a link to Crooked Timber, which has Richard Posner becoming the latest conservative to jump the movement’s ship, [...]
Obama: Existing U.S. Institutions Can ‘Work Through And Punish’ Bush’s ‘Violations Of Our Laws’ ThinkProgress05/21/2009
Obama said that instead of a 9/11-style commission, he favors an investigation of “abuses of our values” done through Congress. Most notably, the President reiterated his view that the DOJ “and our courts can work through and punish any violations [...]
Text of Dick Cheney’s National Security Speech at AEI
"We had the training camps of Afghanistan, and dictators like Saddam Hussein with known ties to Mideast terrorists." Here, he continues with his fiction that al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were connected through some kind of "known ties." This is the first instance in this speech of [...]
Open Thread [the left coaster] by Mary Thursday :: May 21, 2009
About the rise in gas prices over the Memorial Day weekend? It’s a good bet that it is due to the hedge-funds speculating and not [...]
I’ll admit that I’ve tired of the attacks on Pelosi [yawn] and haven’t kept up with the current state of play. I left out the video from Chris Matthews in emptywheel’s post, and the bad Pelosi part of it wasn’t terribly interesting to me. But the part from Paul Kanjorski seems like a big deal: [...]