Recent mainstream news coverage, including lengthy reports in the Washington Post and New York Times, about controversies surrounding ACORN have failed to disclose the near decade-long campaign by the likes of Karl Rove and Republican operatives who worked closely with the former White House political to try and permanently shut down the organization.
Seven former directors of the CIA sent a letter to President Barack Obama Friday asking him to take the unprecedented step of personally blocking an investigation authorized by Attorney General Eric Holder into cases where agency officers and contractors allegedly exceeded legal guidelines during the interrogations of “war on terror” detainees.
Rick Sanchez took Fox News to task Friday for claiming in a newspaper ad that the network, along with other news outlets, failed to cover the tea party protests in Washington, D.C. last weekend. Here’s the transcript:
RICK SANCHEZ: There is something that I got to tell you now. If you watch this show every day- [...]
Congressman Jerrold Nadler denounced a Republican amendment adopted by the House of Representatives Thursday to deny all federal funds to the advocacy group ACORN as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere.
The Bush administration gave its initial clearance for CIA interrogators to brutalize an al-Qaeda “high-value detainee” through verbal guidance and didn’t follow up with a formal legal opinion until “months later,” the CIA’s former inspector general said.
The American Civil Liberties Union called upon the U.S. Supreme Court this week to deny a petition the Obama administration filed in August that urged justices to review and reverse a lower court’s decision ordering the government to release more than four-dozen photos depicting U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan abusing prisoners.
Eight U.S. Embassy guards stationed in Kabul were fired Friday and two others resigned after a watchdog group released photographs and videos this week that showed the guards engaged in lewd conduct and other inappropriate behavior that put the lives of diplomats at the compound at risk during a time when the Taliban and al-Qaeda were moving against U.S. targets.
The watchdog group Project On Government Oversight revealed Thursday that a whistleblower who who disclosed the deviant behavior carried out by U.S. Embassy guards stationed in Kabul was forced to resign.
Below is a copy of the 20-page letter sent Monday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by the watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) that conducted an investigation detailing the widespread debauchery committed by U.S. Embassy guards stationed in Kabul. The guards are employed by ArmorGroup, a firm hired by the State Department [...]
The CIA said in court papers late Monday that it intends to withhold hundreds of pages of documents related to the Bush administration’s torture and detention policies on grounds that disclosing the information will threaten national security.
