Bush Era

More of Bush/Gonzales’ Legacy: The Torture Presidency

YahooNews/AFP Tuesday April 3, 10:46 AM Guantanamo detainee Hicks feared US interrogators would shoot him Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according […]

Bush Era

Guantanamo conditions ‘worsening’

bbcnews.com Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were “pushing people to the edge”. It called for the facility to be closed and for plans for “unfair” military commission trials […]

Bush Era

Iraq accounting is still a muddle

By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, […]

Bush Era

Self-Impeachment by Signing Statement

By David Swanson, afterdowningstreet.org Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans […]