Bill Maher: George W. Bush Collector’s Plates Series

By Josh White, Washington Post As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this week on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the public is getting another peek at how detainees have been treated there. A leaked copy of a March 2004 manual of Gitmo’s “Standard Operating Procedures” for Camp Delta was…

therawstory Michael Roston Published: Monday March 12, 2007 The Chairman of the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee today demanded that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice respond to 11 outstanding requests for information sent by his office since 2003. The letters primarily concerned claims, later proved erroneous, on the threat posed to the United States…

By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales’s role in the controversial dismissal of eight United States Attorneys had just been exposed, and the story was becoming a…