Bush Era

Media: Americans don’t want accountability

Journalists seem to have forgotten that they are supposed to be watchdogs — not cheerleaders of government corruption. By Faiz Shakir and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin and Satyam Khanna, Center for […]

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Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture

Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Dismissed, AP Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as “lamentable.” U.S. […]

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FBI agent told to keep quiet over attorney firings

By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters An FBI agent was warned to keep quiet about the dismissal of a U.S. attorney after he told a newspaper her firing would hurt the agency’s ongoing investigations and speculated politics […]