By Tim Golden, The New York Times A long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen prisoners subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees say. Lawyers for several hunger strikers said their clients’ actions…
Giuliani, Gonzales pushed Department of Homeland Security bid forward By John Solomon and Peter Baker, washingtonpost.com When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001. But it did…
Michael Rolston, rawstory.com A House Committee is still seeking testimony from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice later this week in spite of a 17-page letter sent by the State Department suggesting that a series of inquiries had been answered in full. The head of Congress’s Oversight Committee called the response “insufficient.” “After receiving an insufficient…
By Robert Parry, Consortuimnews What makes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney such extraordinary threats to the future of American democracy is their readiness to tell half-truths and outright lies consistently without any apparent fear of accountability. While other politicians might spin some facts in a policy debate or tell a fib about a personal…
