What Domestic Military Operations Have Been Going On In The USA?
The existence of another secret White House memo giving the President of the United States justifications for violating U.S. law and the Constitution has been discovered. This memo, exposed by a...
View ArticleNewly Disclosed Torture Memo Remains Unreleased
You might hear some news today that another government memo approving specific torture techniques has been released. Given what I’ve seen of the memo, I’m not sure that’s really true. The word used by...
View ArticleMcCain, Obama and Biden Failed to Confront Torture
This is not a day for supporters of John McCain or Barack Obama to be proud. As Jim reported late last night, memos signed by George W. Bush that explicitly order waterboarding torture have been...
View ArticleSecret Service Issues Restrictions for 2009 Inauguration and Inaugural Parade
The U.S. Secret Service, now part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has issued its guidelines containing restrictions for people who plan to attend the January 20, 2009 Inauguration of...
View ArticleJohn Yoo (And Clinton Too): Constitution, Schmonstitution. We've Got Deference!
Lest you think that the effort to weaken 4th Amendment protections against warrantless search and seizure began with the Protect America Act of 2007 and FISA Amendments Act of 2008, let’s go all the...
View ArticleGood Faith Opposed Torture Within Military
Barack Obama has declared that he intends to allow torturers in the military, CIA and other government agencies to remain free, without prosecution for their war crimes. Physicians, psychologists,...
View ArticleObama Doesn't Release Torture Memo As Promised
You may remember that I wrote yesterday morning that the big news of the day about torture would be the release of a CIA memo written during the Bush Administration, revealing the scope of planned...
View ArticleObama Still Can't Decide Whether To Tell Us The Truth About Torture
Yesterday, we thought that the Obama Administration, after two delays, was finally going to release a CIA memo revealing the breadth and knowing criminality of U.S. government torture under George W....
View ArticleBush Administration Directed Construction of Torture Chambers
Among the recently released reports detailing the extent of torture by the CIA under George W. Bush is a memo written by the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. That memo gave...
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