Via Cryptocomb: In cooperation with Author/Journalist Douglas Valentine, Cryptocomb is publishing over 8GB’s of audio recordings that Mr. Valentine collected throughout his personal interviews with former CIA and U.S. Military Officers while researching for his book, “The Phoenix Program”. The Phoenix Program for the unacquainted was a CIA generated operation that sponsored mass arrests, terrorism, torture, [...]
May 6, 2012 | Filed under
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Is there a double standard for those that are anti-abortion activists? Francis Grady is accused of trying to burn down a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin earlier this month. The charges against him did not include domestic terrorism. And this is despite the fact that he made statements in court, and in documents brought by [...]
April 25, 2012 | Filed under
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Intrepid reporter Jeffrey Kaye has written an important follow-up story on the media’s campaign to link the antimalarial drug mefloquine to the massacre in Afghanistan last month. Kaye’s findings: A tag team of two contributors to Time Magazine’s Battleland blog have misrepresented the facts concerning the possibility that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales may have been [...]
April 20, 2012 | Filed under
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A newly released document showcases the United States Defense Department’s torture techniques. The 37 page report details ways officials can torture detainees suspected of having ties to terrorism. In 2002, the document was handed to Bush administration officials, but is just now seeing the light of day. Now the particulars of the report are being [...]
April 5, 2012 | Filed under
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Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye have another exclusive over at Truthout on the origins of Bush’s torture program. Kaye and Leopold report: In May of 2002, one of several meetings was convened at the White House where the CIA sought permission from top Bush administration officials, including then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to torture [...]
April 3, 2012 | Filed under
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At Truthout, Jeff Kaye has a must-read takedown of a recent report published by Mark Benjamin at The Huffington Post. Kaye reports: A March 25 article by Mark Benjamin at The Huffington Post seriously misled readers about a link between the controversial antimalarial drug mefloquine and the mass murder in Afghanistan attributed to Staff Sgt. [...]
March 29, 2012 | Filed under
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Newly released documents show that the Department of Homeland Security closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, but also shows that they were concerned about crossing the line and unconstitutional surveillance. Truthout was the first organization to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with DHS on the matter, and so they’re the first [...]
March 23, 2012 | Filed under
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Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter of Truthout and author of News Junkie, discusses his article “US Subjected Manning to Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment, UN Torture Chief Concludes;” how Manning’s treatment highlights the State Department’s stunning hypocrisy when they finger-wag at other countries for human rights violations; why most Americans think Manning is a traitor and [...]
March 16, 2012 | Filed under
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Truthout reports: The United States government subjected Bradley Manning to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment following his arrest in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret State Department cables and other documents to WikiLeaks, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture concluded in a long-awaited report. In an addendum [...]
March 15, 2012 | Filed under
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On Wednesday the Senate held a hearing to discuss the Freedom of Information Act. The goal was to address safeguarding critical infrastructure and the public’s right to know. Many Americans believe FOIA is essential for holding the US government accountable for any wrong doing. Since 1966 presidents have acknowledge the importance of an open government, [...]
March 14, 2012 | Filed under
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