The RAND corporation, a company that does studies on and for government and society was commissioned by the Army to do a study about the Iraq war. When the study found failure in every organization at every level, the Army buried it- including the declassified version. The reason? According to Lt. Gen. James Lovelace [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bush Administration’
RAND Corporation Commits Truth, Gets Buried
Posted in Iraq, tagged Bush Administration, Department of Defense, Iraq, RAND Corporation, war on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Domestic Security Initiatives and the FY 2009 Budget
Posted in DHS, tagged budget, Bush Administration, Department of Homeland Security on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the genius of the president’s budget proposal, look no further than the Department of Homeland Security’s line-item breakdown. The DHS is the biggest budgetary beneficiary, in terms of percentage increase, at 11% and it represents how the president plans on ignoring the overall budget number while planning to focus on the overall budget [...]
The Reason Why We Need A Shield Law
Posted in journalism, tagged Bush Administration, Free press, James Risen, New York Times on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena for James Risen, New York Times reporter and author of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and The Bush Administration. The order is calling for Mr. Risen to reveal his sources in the White House, the subpoena comes from where else? The White [...]
Is this America?
Posted in Bush Administration, Katrina, business, tagged Bush Administration, HUD, New Orleans, Protest, Public Housing, racism on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Flying in the face of historical value, lack of destruction and showing support for blatant racism demolition is beginning on public housing units throughout New Orleans. Local business interests, using hurricane Katrina as a transparent cover have seized the opportunity to remove the last remnants of any type of affordable housing in New Orleans [...]
Evidence of Torture and Dissappearances Keeps Coming Out
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Cheney, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, Iran, Iraq, Musharraf, torture, tagged Afghanistan, Bush Administration, CIA, Congress, Iraq, torture, war on terror on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In what started as a trickle, has rapidly advanced to a rising tide, stories of torture and mass disappearances are flooding the news. The stories read like political fictions but are all too real. Countries involvement in torture is nothing new, in fact America’s involvement in torture is nothing new. But, what [...]
Russia Update
Posted in Bush Administration, Putin, Russia, elections, tagged Bush Administration, elections, NATO, Putin, Rice, Russia on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is a lot going on in Putin’s Kingdom, from elections, to Iran sanctions in light of the new NIE and we’ve got a round up of all the events inside the Federation.
CIA Destroys Evidence of Waterboarding
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, US Congress, torture, tagged Bush Administration, CIA, Congress, torture, Waterboarding on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post is running a story this morning that the CIA has destroyed video tapes of its agents using waterboarding against two Al-Qaeda suspects. All the tapes were destroyed in November of 2005 on the order of the CIA’s head of Clandestine Operations. According to the article:
The destruction came after the Justice Department [...]
Fashionably Late: The New York Times on Inherent Contempt
Posted in Bush Administration, DoJ, inherent contempt, tagged Bush Administration, Department of Justice, inherent contempt, New York Times on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We reported on Inherent Contempt in July when congress filed contempt charges against Josh Bolten and Harriet Meiers. Who refused to comply with the subpeonas issued to them on a claim of executive privledge so vast, we’re sure we are probably covered under it somewhere. The New York Times finally got around to [...]
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