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If you’ve been wondering, as I have, on what authority U.S. forces are conducting military operations in Pakistan and Syria. Well, we should not be surprised, there was a secret order allowing them to do so.
NY Times: Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries
WASHINGTON — The United States military [...]

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

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From ABC News:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved the torture of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency. The advisers were members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, which in 2002-2003 included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor [...]

The corporate media circus exposed via BradBlog in all it’s commercialized glory. Don’t miss “Lapdogs Of The Corporate Press!“

Remember when Americans were outraged that the military was buying toilet seats and hammers for six hundred dollars and passing the bill onto the taxpayers. Ah, the good old days!
I set my alarm clock to the Diane Rehm show on NPR at 9:00 a.m. every morning. If you live in Utah, it is one of [...]

Just a reminder, the official 9/11 report does not mention WTC7 anywhere, and it was not hit by a plane. And according to NYC fire fighters radio transmissions, the minor fire was isolated and well under control when the order to evacuate was given.
I raise this only because I happen to notice that yesterday, DailyKos [...]

Psychology and science made their debut as American weapons of war in 1916. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and avowed racial terrorist launched, “the Committee on Public Information.” That same year, President Wilson welcomed a parade of several hundred thousand hooded white men at the White House. The original masters of Amerikan terror held [...]

As a last-ditch desperate attempt to save their own hides, the founding fathers of the neocon ideology are blaming Bush for screwing up. For those unfamiliar with the chicken hawks behind this illegal fiasco. They are Perle, Feith, Adleman, Frum, Woolsey, Cohen, Gaffney, Rubin, and Pletka
Strikingly absent from this Bush-bashing orgy is a mea culpa.
Our [...]

This post is in response to a request from Cliff to dig up some more information about the Military Transition Teams in Iraq and how they operate. As we all know, the true state of training of national security forces, Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP), is a subject that has been largely [...]

I cannot begin to find language strong enough to describe my disgust at the treatment of Jose Padilla at the hands of our government. Held for four years, two years without access to counsel, without ever actually being charged, tortured and finally driven insane. And to make matters worse,
Indeed, there are even some [...]

Up front, let me say I was never a fan of President Gerald Ford after he pardoned Nixon. It seemed to me he was putting the best interest of the Republican Party ahead of what was best for the country. He deserved to lose the 1976 election.
Tomorrow’s Washington Post has a front-page exclusive [...]