From Leahy himself :
“Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal justification for this program,” Chairman Leahy wrote in letters accompanying the subpoenas to Bush Administration officials. [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Senate Subpoenas Bush, Cheney, Gonzo on Domestic Wiretapping
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, DoJ, Senate Judiciary, politics, wiretapping on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cheneyland: Robbing the Treasury
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, Iraq, Waxman, military, outsourcing, politics on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Waxman just keeps rolling out reports on the corruption in the Cheneyland junta. Todays installment : More Dollars, Less Sense illustrates the full extent of war profiteering going on in Iraq and elsewhere. To wit:
This new report finds that the worrisome trends identified last year have worsened significantly. For the first time, (1) [...]
Turkey: Northern Iraq Operations Necessary
Posted in Iraq, Israel, Kurds, PKK, Turkey, arab world on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AKI and Reuters are both reporting that the Turkish Military has repeated its affirmation that operations into Northern Iraq are necessary to maintain security against Kurdish Rebels.
The AP is also reporting that the Turkish Military, has asked the Turkish government to create a set of political guidelines for incursions into [...]
Unsubstantiated Rumor: Rumsfeld Shopping a Book
Posted in Books, Bush Administration, Rumsfeld on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Sun is reporting Rummy is shopping an If I Did It style memoir in defense of his New Model Army, Iraq, torture, etc. Allegedly the publishing world is abuzz, where’s Judith Reagan when you need her?
Cheneyland: No oversight, no where, no how.
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, politics on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Henry Waxman has written a letter to Fred Fielding, executive branch counselor, on the aggregious and continuous breaches of security in the White House. Breaches which are consistently going uninvestigated.
Guantanamo: Apprently just a Holiday Inn
Posted in Afghanistan, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Bay, enemy combatant, torture, war on terror on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Morris D. Davis a colonel in the Air Force writes in todays New York Times op-ed section about the Guantanamo he knows. Which is more like a Holiday Inn and less like torture camp. Sure, and Poland and Romania are just vacation spots for the jet setters of the rendition set.
Further:
Abu [...]
Russia: update
Posted in China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, arab world, foreign policy on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our continuing coverage by region. Just following all the players on the board…
Previous installment here
Winning The Long War
Posted in Bush Administration, Children, Iraq, USA on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Marwa Hussien watched as gunmen stormed into her home and executed her parents. Afterward, her uncle brought her to the Alwiya Orphanage, a high-walled compound nestled in central Baghdad with a concrete yard for a playground. That was more than two years ago, and for 13-year-old Marwa, shy and thin with walnut-colored eyes [...]
Speaking Truth To Power
Posted in Bush Administration, presidential scholars, torture on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the only people left in this country willing to speak truth to power are high schoolers.
The handwritten letter said the students “believe we have a responsibility to voice our convictions.”
“We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights [...]
Rahm Emanuel to Cheney: Debate This
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, US Congress, Vice President, politics on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s press briefing the newest schizophrenic talking point was delivered. This time on the Cheneyland issue
Cheneyland:New and Now With Torture
Posted in BAE, Bush Administration, CIA, Cheney, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Arabia, Vice President, enemy combatant, foreign policy, politics on June 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On Friday, we reported that Vice President Dick Cheney has apparently spun off, and created his own branch of government, or perhaps government unto itself by declaring that even though President is right there in his title, he isn’t part of the executive branch of the US government. (That sound you hear is [...]
Turkey, Iraq, Hudson, Dueling Points of View
Posted in Iraq, Kurds, PKK, Russia, Turkey, foreign policy on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On June 13th in Washington D.C. following security operations by the Turkish military into Iraq, the conservative think tank Hudson Institute gamed a number of possible scenarios in a closed door meeting about security risks involved with Turkey, Iraq, and the PKK. This meeting was highly controversial, and has caused a firestorm of [...]
Outsourcing National Security
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, foreign policy, intelligence community, military, outsourcing, politics, war on terror on June 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The New York Times is running an editorial from Patrick Radden Keefe at the Century Foundation on the privatization of spies. Mr. Keefe writes:
In the intervening years a huge espionage-industrial complex has developed, as government spymasters outsourced everything from designing surveillance technology to managing case officers overseas. Today less than [...]
Lighter Side- Toddler Genius
Posted in Toddler Geniuses, UK, interesting tidbits on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two year old Georgia Brown (Love that name!) from Aldershot, Hampshire (UK) is the youngest member of British Mensa at age TWO! She has an IQ of 152 and in the understatement of the century Georgias Mother:
She had spotted that her daughter was a strikingly quick learner.
Uh, yeah. The lady who tested [...]
Wtf?
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, US Congress, USA, Vice President, politics on June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In a piece of constitutional theatre of the absurd, Vice President Dick Cheney has said, according to a report from the House Oversight Committee that he is not part of the executive branch of the US Government . Directly from the report:
The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice [...]
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