Tom Engelhardt, The Nation
At any moment, somewhere in the now-Bush-administration destabilized “arc of instability,” with its six crisis areas, a seventh crisis could indeed rise, demand attention, and refuse to be ejected from the premises. There are many possible candidates.
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Ex-Official: Bush Panicked After 9/11 Former State Dept. Lawyer Describes Bush Administration’s Gimto Interrogations As Torture (CBS/AP) A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners. Former President George W. Bush denied anyone was tortured. But Vijay Padmanabhan is at least the second insider to…
By Scott Shane, New York Times The prosecutor investigating the Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of interrogation videotapes is reviewing whether government officials violated any of 17 court orders requiring the preservation of evidence or broke the law by concealing the tapes’ existence or approving their destruction, according to court papers filed late Friday night. The…
New York Times Editorial What People Really Need Published: March 21, 2007 In nasty and bumbling comments made at the White House yesterday, President Bush declared that “people just need to hear the truth” about the firing of eight United States attorneys. That’s right. Unfortunately, the deal Mr. Bush offered Congress to make White House…
By: Roger Simon, The Politico Gonzales team see what happened to Scooter and say: “Hey, I’m going to rat. Or take the Fifth. Or both. I am not doing time to protect anybody.” Which is so New School. …True, Bush does not like it when his friends are criticized and good public servants are under…
Tholos of Athena — TENTH ADDRESS TO CITY COUNCIL (Re: A Resolution To Impeach) April 1, 2008 Mayor, Council members, I appear for the tenth time asking you to pass a simple resolution calling for the impeachment of the President and Vice President of the United States. In my remarks awhile back, I raised the…
