This debate is not really about torture, as odd as it sounds to say that. And now that I think about it, the Valerie Plame Affair wasn’t just about outing a C.I.A. Agent. So long as we are focused on just what they actually did, they still have their monotonous save_america_from_attack defense. Here is Dick […]
Statement by Senator Arlen Specter: I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for the ideals of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view. While I have been comfortable being a Republican, my Party has not […]
The Banality of Bush White House Evil By FRANK RICH April 25, 2009 … it’s not Bybee’s perverted lawyering and pornographic amorality that make his memo worthy of special attention. It merits a closer look because it actually does add something new — and, even after all we’ve heard, something shocking — to the five-year-old […]
This is the middle phase of learning the truth. That’s when everyone’s starting to "talk" but none of it fits. Yesterday in the Washington Post, Porter Goss ["… a Republican, was director of the CIA from September 2004 to May 2006 and was chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to […]
Shane Murphy, Freed Pirate Hostage, Slams "Disgusting" Rush Limbaugh by Arthur Delaney Huffington Post 04/24/09 Shane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he’s not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as […]
Cheney Requests Release of 2 CIA Reports on Interrogations By Dan Eggen Washington Post April 25, 2009 Former vice president Richard B. Cheney is asking for the release of two CIA reports in his bid to marshal evidence that coercive interrogation tactics such as waterboarding helped thwart terrorist plots, according to documents released yesterday by […]
U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Refusing To Torture the left coaster by Turkana In a heartbreaking and infuriating article at Huffington Post, Greg Mitchell recounts what happened when a person of conscience was confronted with Bush Administration inhumanity: With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo (and who, knows, probably elsewhere), […]
Mercifully for me, I’ve been too busy to obsess much about the state of the union or keep up with the state of the argument about how we “should” proceed with our prosecution of the Bush Administration crimes. I’ve been “doctoring” again in a couple of charity clinics; we got a nice grant from the […]
This port of NASA’s Climate Time Machine only “sort of worked. Go to their site for the real deal. Very interesting.
With the "surge," we kept hearing that "the surge worked" – as if that were the point. Now we are being drawn into the same kind of argument about torture. Cheney, primarily, claims that it "worked." Well, I’m not willing to accept that the questions about really torture have to with whether it worked or […]