SLATE has published excerpts of a Gitmo torture memoir that should be required reading in Congress and in the Obama administration. It should then be passed to Ron Fournier who recently wrote a sloppy love poem to George W. Bush. The first installment of the torture memoir is here, but hold on, because it unmasks, [...]
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Richard M. Nixon Should Have Been Impeached [Videos]
“I’m saying that when the President does it, it’s not illegal.” – Richard M. Nixon MARKING THE 100th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon’s birth, the legacy he leaves behind was seen in full glory through President George W. Bush’s unitary executive notion. It was shepherded by Vice President Dick Cheney, a man who never got [...]
News Desk: Hagel Nomination as Secretary of Defense “Locked Down”
The White House was calling senators’ offices Sunday to inform them Hagel’s nomination is imminent and to help build support for it, a source familiar with the nomination said. CNN reported Friday that the White House had told some senior members of Congress to expect the tapping of Hagel, and another source with knowledge of [...]
Chris Wallace to Axelrod: Did Obama “Make Calculated Decision to Run Out the Clock” on Benghazi Questions?
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News TODAY ON Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace took the baton from Sean Hannity and the rest of the FNC partisans, who concocted a CIA narrative that’s been proved false, a story which ABC [...]
Wounded Vet: “The Mitt Romney I Know Cares Deeply About People Who Are Struggling”
IT’S ONE of the unifying issues in politics. The soldier whose life is blown apart by war that civilians vote to wage. How could it not be turned into a political opportunity by a man struggling to prove he’s got a heart? The biggest casualty of this election is that we never had a real [...]
Top Story: The Bush Administration and 9/11
THE VIDEO above is old, condensed, too, with the pictures, tale and music I wove together now burned into our history and our memories, so the quick flip from scene to quote and back again seen in a rush simply reminds us of how quickly we lost what we once cherished, when fear replaced all [...]
Hillary and Joe, Condi vs. Joe
The rumors are flying around the internets. Robert Reich reveals the Democratic panic deep within the insiders by pushing a Hillary – Biden switch. He’s just the latest. The subject of a Biden – Hillary switch makes my book, but I’ve yet to read anyone address the damage it would do to Pres. Obama, who [...]
TIME: Grand Jury Investigating CIA Abu Ghraib Torture for War Crimes
The ghosts of Bush-Cheney-Rummy torture still hangs over the C.I.A., no matter what Leon Panetta has done to infuse the agency with honor. From TIME magazine: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner known as “the Iceman” — for the bungled attempt to cool his body and make him look [...]
Bush Iraqi Boondoggle: Pentagon’s $6.6 Billion Still Missing
From the LA Times we find out just what a disaster the team of Bush and Rumsfeld were for the U.S. From tax cuts that exploded the debt and an unjustified preemptive war kept off the books, add in Abu Ghraib and the plummeting of American credibility throughout the Arab and Muslim world, it’s hard [...]
The Finish the Job Quotient
The fact that a trio of top Senate Democrats — who were highly critical of President George W. Bush’s conduct of the war in Iraq — felt compelled to defend a Democratic president who’s launched a new war front shows just how worried some Democrats are about the Libya military action. In fact, Durbin went [...]
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