Winter Soldier 2008 – Veterans share Iraq horrors

rawstory.com According to NBC’s chief Pentagon correspondent, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that his “interest is to hit Saddam Hussein” just hours after the attacks on September 11, 2001, “even though all indications pointed at al-Qaida as the guilty party,” a Rhode Island newspaper reports. At the annual Business Expo at the Rhode Island…

RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine how many are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse, service officials said Wednesday. Overall, the contracts are worth close to $3 billion and represent every transaction made between…

therawstory David Edwards and Jeremy Gantz Echoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s words one week ago, New York Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday that he could support prosecution for Bush officials that participated in torture or broke other laws. “If there are egregious cases, I don’t think you can say, blanket, no prosecutions,” Schumer…

PAMELA HESS, AP The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying videotapes that documented the harsh 2002 interrogations of two alleged terrorists. A day after CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden told agency employees the tapes were destroyed in 2005, members of Congress, human…

By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas “if the White House continues to stonewall” his panel’s investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was “deeply troubled” by what he called White House efforts to “manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm.”…