Former President George W. Bush admitted in his memoir that he ordered the CIA to torture. The former U.S.president now aims to increase his revenues from his memoir … [Keep reading >>]

Proud torturer in Chief…
“Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Bush said of the terrorist who master-minded the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. He said that event … [Keep reading >>]

Robert F Kennedy Jr reminds us:
culpability for the disaster can more accurately be laid at the Bush Administration’s doorstep. For eight years, George Bush’s presidency infected the … [Keep reading >>]

“Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed … [Keep reading >>]

In a repudiation of the Bush administration’s now-defunct Terrorist Surveillance Program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic … [Keep reading >>]

Lieberman Now Against Saying White House Critics Help Al-Qaeda (After He Was For It, During Bush Years)

Talking Points Memo

Lieberman is of course, once again, joining the far right smash and … [Keep reading >>]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA) reached a final settlement of their long-running lawsuits challenging the failure of the Bush White House … [Keep reading >>]

Some days it’s real hard to praise the good and overlook the bad….
…in providing money for projects that the Defense Department says it did not request and does not want, … [Keep reading >>]

Matt Latimer came to Washington to do big things, and did he ever! After a few years in the Republican trenches he got a job as one of President … [Keep reading >>]

One of the appalling revelations of U.S. government torture turns up in an AP/SF Chronicle article today [p A9]

A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA … [Keep reading >>]

Update below

The New York Times top left headline on Sunday trumpets: Lawyers Agreed on Legality of Brutal Tactic, with a sub-head “Justice Department Consensus Included Opponents of Waterboarding.”

The key … [Keep reading >>]

“President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence … [Keep reading >>]