That was then… This is now…
Dawn E. Johnsen withdraws bid for confirmation to Justice Dept. post By Associated Press April 10, 2010 President Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has withdrawn her bid for confirmation after languishing for more than a year without a Senate vote. In announcing her decision Friday, Dawn E. Johnsen cited […]
By that time, I also understood that the deliberate choice to send detainees to Guantánamo was an attempt to place them outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. legal system. Larry Wilkerson George W. Bush ‘knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent’ TIMESONLINE by Tim Reid April 9, 2010 George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered […]
Calif. man cries at hearing in Pelosi threats caseAPBy JASON DEARENApril 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — A man accused of threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in phone calls cried Thursday during a court appearance where a magistrate initially refused his request to be released to a halfway house. Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San Francisco […]
Vatican blasts anti-Catholic ‘hate’ campaign Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO April 6, 2010 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. […]
UK Conservatives may reopen probe into Iraq war whistleblower’s death raw story By Daniel Tencer April 5th, 2010 The death of a whistle-blower who said the UK government had "sexed up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein’s military capabilities in order to sell the Iraq war has been one of the most intriguing and confusing elements […]
Deadly Record: Massey’s Mine In Montcoal Has Been Cited For Over 3,000 Violations, Over $2.2 Million In Fines ThinkProgress By Brad April 6, 2010 Massey Energy is actively contesting millions of dollars of fines for safety violations at its West Virginia coal mine where disaster struck yesterday afternoon. Twenty-five miners were killed and another four […]
In my last post [day after day…], I was talking about the "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved in the Yoo/Bybee Memo from the OLC in 2002. While most of us reading it are put off from closely reading the document because it’s clearly a rationalization to make obvious torture techniques look like something else, there are […]