By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t When Congress returns from its winter break in mid-January and continues its probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, the lawmakers may be interested in speaking to Mary O. McCarthy. McCarthy spent most of her career at the spy agency, most recently as…
AfterDowningStreet.org By David Swanson The past year has seen the public exposure of enough evidence of old, ongoing, and new crimes, abuses of power, and impeachable offenses by George Bush and Dick Cheney that in any remotely representative democracy, these two thugs would be out of office and behind bars. The chief reason this does…
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne, Raw Story The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be convicted by an American military tribunal will be released from prison on Saturday — but six years of harsh treatment in US custody leave him ill-prepared to readjust to normal life, a psychologist says. Australian-born David Hicks, who was captured in…
Diane Sweet, Raw Story Longtime associates of President George W. Bush are consolidating their hold on American media with a string of recent acquisitions. Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. earlier this month announced the sale of 8 of its US television stations to a private equity firm — Oak Hill Partners — for…
