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Exceptionally Imbecilic

October 2, 2009

Yesterday, the House voted 258-163 to approve a non-binding recommendation prohibiting the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to the U.S. for trial or imprisonment. 88 Democrats voted with the majority.
Here's the typical defense for continuing, indefinitely, American offshore gulags…..
"There is no reason these terrorists, who pose a serious and documented threat to our nation, [...]

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Torture Defenders: Self-Deceived Or Gullible?

August 31, 2009

My blog buddy King last week….
What our media hasn't bothered to tell you is that the early interrogation and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT's) used against terrorist monsters like al-Nashiri, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Abu Zubaydah worked, just like former VP Dick Cheney said they did. Cheney was ridiculed endlessly for saying that, but the CIA [...]

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Perception Of An Investigation

August 25, 2009

As the Obama administration continues to do everything it can to cover-up for Bush/Cheney-era crimes against the American people, we now learn that Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General, has appointed Republican, John Durham, as a "special prosecutor" to investigate "alleged detainee mistreatment"….
Holder has named longtime prosecutor John H. Durham, who has parachuted into crisis situations [...]

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A Steaming Pile Of The Village

July 16, 2009

The Washington Post's David Ignatius is a personal case study in what's wrong down in the Village. Again the AB Journal gives Ignatius top billing on it's op-ed page….and again, Ignatius lays down the isolated and rotted Village mindset.
If the U.S. federal government, according to Ignatius, holds it's agencies, like the CIA, accountable for it's [...]

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Overwhelming Evidence

July 12, 2009

A week ago we learned about new evidence confirming that Richard Cheney directed the Bush administration's disclosure of Valerie Plame's covert CIA status…..
A document filed in federal court this week by the Justice Department offers new evidence that former vice president Richard B. Cheney helped steer the Bush administration's public response to the disclosure of [...]

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The Rogue Bush White House

July 11, 2009

If you don't read Glenn Greenwald's blog at Salon.com regularly…..I highly recommend doing so. I have been reading Greenwald for a few years. He is a constitutional lawyer with a razor sharp writing style that's easy for laypeople, like me, to follow. Of all print media, Greenwald's blog ranks 9th in a list of the [...]

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"I Think People Should Be Afraid"

May 26, 2009

Updated below
From NBC's "Press the Meat", aka, "Meet the Press", this past Sunday…
The Republican Party's "idea man", Mr. Newton Gingrich…..
"Let me just say, I think people should be afraid. I think the lesson of 1993, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, was fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson [...]

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President O-bush-a

May 23, 2009

First, let me state without reservation or qualification, that having Barack Obama as President is a far superior situation for America than if John McCain, with his full-throated, neo-conservative military and foreign policy ideology, were guiding the ship of state.
That said….not only has Obama followed Bush/Cheney footprints on state secrets, transparency, and, now, indefinite [...]

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Tortured Thinking

May 22, 2009

Yesterday Obama spoke on the torture issue, Guantanamo, state secrets and national security. The speech was a mixed bag. Some very good stuff…some, not so good. Transcript here.
Why Obama rejects the torture regime of Bush/Cheney…
What's more, they (harsh interrogations, i.e. torture) undermine the rule of law. They alienate us in the world. They serve [...]

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Leaks In The Senate

May 21, 2009

After refusing to limit the interest banksters can charge credit card holders, the Senate went on to pass a more bankster-friendly credit card bill Tuesday. The bill was a lame effort, barely a wrist slap to an industry who regularly bribes our politicians with campaign cash to do it's bidding. The bill passed 90-5.
The Senate [...]

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