By Michael Winship
September 6, 2009
The envelope, please. And the winner for "most influential motion picture in American politics" is... “Hillary: The Movie.”
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Colin Powell and Lessons of My Lai
By Robert Parry
September 4, 2009
September 4, 2009
In an Aug. 28 editorial, The New York Times applauded a belated “note of personal regret” from former Lt. William Calley for his role in the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968. But neither the Times nor any other leading U.S. news outlet has ever suggested that remorse might also be due from Colin Powell, who as a young Army major helped cover up the crime.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Broder Is Latest Torture Apologist
By Melvin A. Goodman
September 4, 2009
David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators.
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September 4, 2009
David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators.
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Mercenaries Hide Costs of War
By Sherwood Ross
September 3, 2009
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.
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September 3, 2009
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.
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The War on CIA's Inspector General
By Melvin A. Goodman
September 3, 2009
President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
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September 3, 2009
President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
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Ignoring the Truth about Lockerbie
By William Blum
September 3, 2009
If there's anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge.
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September 3, 2009
If there's anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge.
Read on.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Afghanistan for Dummies
By Ray McGovern
September 2, 2009
I’m going to ask for my money back. I’ve seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title.
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September 2, 2009
I’m going to ask for my money back. I’ve seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title.
Read on.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
WPost Misses Real Problem at CIA
By Melvin A. Goodman
September 1, 2009
It only took 24 hours for The Washington Post to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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September 1, 2009
It only took 24 hours for The Washington Post to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Cheney May Balk at Torture Probe
By Jason Leopold
August 31, 2009
Dick Cheney says Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to have a federal prosecutor examine one dozen or so cases of torture that U.S. interrogators allegedly inflicted on suspected terrorists “offends the hell out of me” and may not merit the former Vice President’s cooperation.
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August 31, 2009
Dick Cheney says Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to have a federal prosecutor examine one dozen or so cases of torture that U.S. interrogators allegedly inflicted on suspected terrorists “offends the hell out of me” and may not merit the former Vice President’s cooperation.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
WPost Takes Pro-Torture Side
By Melvin A. Goodman
August 30, 2009
The lead story in Saturday’s Washington Post, headlined “How a Detainee Became An Asset,” provides a one-sided and distorted account of the torture and abuse of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) and demonstrates the need for a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission to create a comprehensive and authoritative narrative of the misgovernment of the Bush administration over the past eight years.
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August 30, 2009
The lead story in Saturday’s Washington Post, headlined “How a Detainee Became An Asset,” provides a one-sided and distorted account of the torture and abuse of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) and demonstrates the need for a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission to create a comprehensive and authoritative narrative of the misgovernment of the Bush administration over the past eight years.
Read on.
WPost Helps CIA Defend Torture
By Ray McGovern
August 30, 2009
August 30, 2009
EXTRA! Read all about it in the Washington Post: Torture worked; Cheney and torture practitioners vindicated.
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