Winter Soldier 2008 – Veterans tell of Iraq, Afghanistan atrocities

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“Torture Team”: British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture May 08, 2008 The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to hold a series…
By Christine Kearney, Reuters A Pakistani man who says he was abused in detention after the September 11 attacks can name the FBI director and former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft in his lawsuit against the government, an appeals court ruled on Thursday. Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at…
By Cenk Uygur, The Politico A new poll indicates for the first time that a majority of Americans want Vice President Cheney impeached. According to the American Research Group, a majority of voters also want President Bush impeached (by a smaller margin, however). Meanwhile, the so-called opposition party has promised that they will not even…
By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Congress on Tuesday struck back at the Bush administration’s trend toward secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks, passing legislation to toughen the Freedom of Information Act and increasing penalties on agencies that don’t comply. The White House would not say whether President Bush will sign the legislation, which unanimously passed…
Michael Roston, Raw Story After former White House Counsel Harriet Miers failed to attend a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on the firing of 8 US Attorneys, House Democrats issued a subpoena for e-mail accounts supplied by the Republican National Committee and used by senior White House staff. The committee’s chairman, Rep. John…
U.S. Keeps Pressure on Iran But Decreases Saber Rattling By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 11, 2007 Some senior administration officials still relish the notion of a direct confrontation. One ambassador in Washington said he was taken aback when John Hannah, Vice President Cheney’s national security adviser, said during a recent meeting…