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The Ongoing Iraq Intel Fraud
By Robert Parry, Consortium News Bush has never stopped making statements about the Iraq War that are untrue, illogical or irrelevant. Yet, the Washington press corps remains almost as lax today about holding Bush accountable as it was in 2002 and 2003. So, when Bush mocks Democratic “politicians in Washington” who supposedly seek to substitute…
Harvard Constitutional Scholar: Need Trump Impeachment Probe
HuffingtonPost – A top Harvard constitutional law professor is calling for an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, branding the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey as an “obvious effort to interfere with a probe involving national security.” To “wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk…
CNN’s Impeachment ‘Reality Check’ Needs Fact Check
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Re: Trump Impeachment, Former Nixon Counsel Sees “Echoes of Watergate”
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Detainee Says He Was Abused While in U.S. Custody
By Raymond Bonner, New York Times David Hicks, the first detainee to be formally charged under the new military tribunal rules at Guantanamo Bay, has alleged in a court document filed here that during more than five years in American custody he was beaten several times during interrogations and witnessed the abuse of other prisoners….
