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Cheney staff alters environmental report findings
Cheney Aides Altered CDC Testimony, Agency Official Says by: Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post Ex-administrator says official from vice president’s office edited out six pages. Members of Vice President’s Dick Cheney’s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said…
More of Bush/Gonzales’ Legacy: The Torture Presidency
YahooNews/AFP Tuesday April 3, 10:46 AM Guantanamo detainee Hicks feared US interrogators would shoot him Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement presented to a British court. In the affidavit, Hicks said he was slapped, kicked, punched and…
Torture trail leads to White House
Cheney, Others OK’d “Harsh Interrogations” The Huffington Post LARA JAKES JORDAN AND PAMELA HESS Meetings In White House Situation Room With Attorney General John Ashcroft, Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet And Condoleezza Rice WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected…
Torture is Not a Methodist Family Value
Torture Is Not a Methodist Family Value Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008 by wallwritings Guest Column by Andrew Weaver Editor’s Note [from James Wall]: Andrew Weaver is a good friend of mine and a close observer of the United Methodist Church. I asked him to write the first guest column for this blog. Andrew…
Congressional Report: Gross Mismanagement of Iraq Funds
By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t A damning report issued last month by the nonpartisan research arm of Congress says the Department of Defense continues to overstate its financial needs, by tens of billions of dollars, to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The agency also casts serious doubt…
US Prosecutors Say New Limits May Help Future Enrons Go Free
By Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg U.S. businesses, with the help of civil libertarians, are on the verge of outmaneuvering federal prosecutors and persuading Congress to limit the government’s power to pursue corporate fraud. Lawmakers are considering a measure that would, among other things, bar the government from demanding that companies reveal confidential talks with their lawyers…
