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Gonzales Didn’t Promote DOJ Official who Opposed Torture
A Firsthand Experience Before Decision on Torture By Scott Shane, New York Times The debate over torture here can get heated, as it did this month when a dispute over the legal status of waterboarding threatened to sink the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general. Still, it usually remains a matter of strictly…
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds ‘names’ Hastert, other Congressmen, Bush Officials in sale of nuclear secrets
(Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Dennis Hastert) From: Sibel Speaks Part II: Naming Names… as published on at-Largely by Larisa Alexandrovna I have decided that after years of not getting anyone to publish what I have found out about the Edmonds case, I am simply going to give you folks some names. I won’t explain…
CIA Photos “Show UK Guantanamo Detainee Was Tortured”
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Bush is Bluffing: The Farce of ‘Executive Privilege’
By Eric Weiner, NPR Online President Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to coin the phrase “executive privilege,” but not the first to invoke its principle: namely, that a president has the right to withhold certain information from Congress, the courts or anyone else–even when faced with a subpoena. Executive privilege, though, is a murky…
