By Jason Leopold Dick Cheney and his lawyer, David Addington, pressured the Department of Justice in 2005 to quickly approve a torture memo that authorized CIA interrogators to use a combination of barbaric techniques during interrogations of “high-value” detainees, despite protests from ormer Deputy Attorney General James Comey, according to several of his e-mails released [...]
June 7, 2009 | Filed under
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Recent Actions by Declassification Panel Show Pattern of CIA Overclassification and Tight Grip on Early Cold War History New Declassification Releases by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) During the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research was one of the few U.S. intelligence organizations to dissent from [...]
June 6, 2009 | Filed under
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By Melvin A. Goodman The current drift in U.S. policy toward North Korea is exposing the weakness of President Obama’s foreign policy team, specifically the absence of both a lead strategic voice and an advisor with North Korean expertise. North Korea has been a nagging problem for over 50 years. We know very little about [...]
June 5, 2009 | Filed under
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By Jason Leopold Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on consortiumnews.com on May 15, 2008. The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of “war on terror” detainees. If [...]
June 4, 2009 | Filed under
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By Jason Leopold John Yoo, the former Deputy Attorney General at the agency’s Office of Legal Counsel, who drafted the infamous “torture memos” that gave former President George W. Bush and CIA interrogators the legal cover they needed to torture suspected terrorist detainees, offered some clues behind the genesis of the August 2002 legal opinions. [...]
June 4, 2009 | Filed under
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Editor’s Note: The Public Record is digging into its archives and republishing investigative stories about Iraq’s non-existent weapons program and how assertions that Iraq was an imminent threat was based on the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. We aim to undercut Dick Cheney’s recent public statements about the threat he said Iraq posed to [...]
June 4, 2009 | Filed under
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By Andy Worthington This report was originally published at Mr. Worthington’s website and has been republished here with permission of the author. It has just been reported that Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih (also known as Mohammed al-Hanashi), a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, has died, apparently by committing suicide. The news comes just three days after [...]
June 3, 2009 | Filed under
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By Chris Rodda While the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is extremely pleased by the announcement that President Obama is replacing Army Secretary Pete Geren, a man who is clearly among those who view the current wars as a religious struggle, we have grave concerns about nominee John McHugh, whose record in Congress indicates that [...]
June 2, 2009 | Filed under
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By Jeff Norman In his interview with Roland Burris Wednesday, Chris Matthews conducted himself not as a fair-minded journalist but a prosecutor who believes it’s okay to conceal exculpatory evidence to win a case. Like everyone else who has been sucked in by a lynch mob mentality at Burris’s expense, Matthews simply ignored that it [...]
June 2, 2009 | Filed under
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By Jason Leopold The International Committee of the Red Cross began an investigation of U.S. war crimes in Iraq from the first days of the invasion, interviewing Iraqi captives from March to November 2003. On Jan. 15, 2004, ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger expressed his concern to Secretary of State Colin Powell about the Bush administration’s [...]
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