Articles tagged with: “Dick Cheney”
Cheney urges strong U.S. commitment to Afghan war
BENTON HARBOR, Michigan - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to commit enough troops to win the war in Afghanistan, ...
Michael Moore: Q+A
This weekend, I've been watching films at Sheffield's Doc/Fest. One of the highlights so far has been Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, which Jonathan ...
Greed Is Good? He Begs to Differ
By Manohla Dargis / New York Times Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” is anything but — something you, I and everyone who has ever ...
'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe
By Devlin Barrett and Pamela Hess (AP) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George ...
Don't Turn the Page on History: Facing the World We Created ...by Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatchWe've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major ...
Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days
By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf / Time Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. ...
Afghanistan now is Obama's war ...by Helen Thomas
San Francisco ChronicleI had an historical flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he ...
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan
Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror ChiefsBy Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence ...
Torture Prosecution Turnaround? ...by Scott Horton
The attorney general is leaning toward appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush-era torture policy, sources tell Scott Horton. Inside the logic driving Eric Holder’s ...
2 senators: CIA concealment may have broken law
By Pete Yost WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months into Barack Obama's presidency, twin investigations may be on the horizon into Bush-era policies in the war ...
A Plan to End the Wars ...by David Swanson
AfterDowningStreet.orgThere are a million and one things that people can do to try to end the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and to ...
Where Are They Now? Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In ...by Nick Turse
TomDispatch In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans ...
In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
By Michael Doyle / McClatchy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security ...
Let's hold Bush officials accountable for torture ...by Anthony Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld
The ACLU's executive director joins with a military officer to ask for a special prosecutor for tortureSalon Torture is a crime and the United States ...
The Secret History
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past By Jane Mayer / New Yorker The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, ...
Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze ...by Alfred McCoy
America's Political Paralysis Over Torture TomDispatch If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, ...
Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was TorturedBy Jake Tapper, Karen Travers, and Stephanie Z. Smith / ABC For 7 1/2 ...
Bill and George Show helps rehabilitate Bush
By Sarah Baxter / London Times FOR George W Bush, life after the White House has meant scooping up Barney the dog's business on a ...
Cheney: No 'evidence' of Iraq, 9/11 link
By Andy Barr / Politico Former Vice President Dick Cheney says there was "never any evidence" that Saddam Hussein's Iraq played any role in the ...
MoveOn Pushes Back On Gitmo, Torture
By Sam Stein / Huffington Post MoveOn.org made a new push on Friday to persuade members of Congress to support the closure of Gitmo and ...
Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium News Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it ...
Levin: CIA Torture Documents Cheney Wants Don't Prove Squat
By Greg Sargent / WhoRunsGovThere’s some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy ...
The CIA's History of Deception ...by Melvin A. Goodman
Consortium News "Let me be clear about this," CIA director Leon Panetta told his troops last week, "it was not CIA policy or practice to ...
Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney For Torture Speech
By Ryan Grim / Huffington Post A former top interrogator is responding forcefully to the case Dick Cheney made on Thursday in favor of torture ...
Yet Another Bogus 'Terror' Plot
By Robert Dreyfuss / Nation By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a ...
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