Candidate Kucinich on Iraq lies, Cheney impeachment

By Susan Crabtree, The Hill House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) wants more information than Monica Goodling, a former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is willing to provide when she testifies before Conyers’s panel Wednesday. John Dowd, Goodling’s attorney, said his client refuses to hand over unredacted documents related to the…

Defendants’ Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay By Josh White, Washington Post Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years’ worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment….

By Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay, NAIROBI, Kenya – A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia as many as 150 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here. … The prisoners, who included…

By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Howard Krongard, the State Department inspector general, recused himself from all investigations involving the controversial private security firm Blackwater USA, when confronted with evidence obtained by a prominent Democrat that showed Krongard had a previously undisclosed conflict of interest. During testimony before the House…