Cheney’s Role Deepens The Daily Beast by Robert Windrem May 14, 2009 Former NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who was suspected of knowing about a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam. Robert Windrem, who covered terrorism for NBC, reports exclusively in The Daily […]
We’re getting us a higher class of bloggers these days! The Truth About Richard Bruce CheneyThe Washington Note by: Lawrence Wilkerson [former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Secretary of State] May 13 2009 This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of staff […]
Obama Pushes Broad Rules for Oversight of Derivatives New York Times By STEPHEN LABATON and JACKIE CALMES May 13, 2009 In its first detailed effort to overhaul financial regulation, the Obama administration on Wednesday sought new authority over the complex financial instruments, known as derivatives, that were a major cause of the financial crisis and […]
The evidence presented complete with links. See also another piece of the puzzle… The Mystery of al-Libi the left coaster by Mary May 11, 2009 One of the Bush desaparecidos has been reportedly found dead of a suicide in a Libyan prison. Awfully convenient that it was the one detainee that caused so much angst […]
One of my retirement activities is a project that involves the highways and byways of the Great Cherokee Nation that once occupied this part of the world. We’ve been involved in cataloging the culturally altered "bent trees" that dot our woods, and georeferencing the maps of the early settlers and explorers, hoping to produce accurate […]
Cutting Through Economic Obfuscation–A Reality-Based Narrative About The Economic Meltdown Open Left by: Paul Rosenberg May 09, 2009 The Center for Public Integrity has issued a new report, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown? The Top 25 Subprime Lenders and Their Wall Street Backers. I’ve included Paul Rosenberg’s summary of this CPI Study as well as […]
White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney The Plum Line Greg Sargent’s blog May 11, 2009 There’s a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars. Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and […]
Obama Adviser Sees Unemployment Rising Until 2010 New York Times By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN May 10, 2009 President Obama’s chief economics forecaster said on Sunday that the nation’s unemployment rate was likely to keep rising until 2010, even if the economy begins growing later this year. Speaking on C-SPAN, Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House […]
There are lots of levels to the Torture Debate: Torture is outlawed by the Geneva Conventions, an agreement that we’ve readily endorsed. Torture is deliberate mistreatment of other human beings, inconsistant with "all men are created equal." Torture doesn’t produce trustworthy information. The U.S. has opposed Torture of prisoners when other people do it. Each […]
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison 10.5.09 The Arabic media is ablaze with the news that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the emir of an Afghan training camp — whose claim that Saddam Hussein had been involved in training al-Qaeda operatives in the use of chemical and biological weapons was used to justify the […]