Published on Saturday, May 24, 2008 by Associated Press by Lara Jakes Jordan Attorney General Michael Mukasey is defending former government lawyers who drew up the legal basis of the Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation methods against terror suspects. Mukasey told Boston College Law School graduates Friday that lawyers doing their part to protect [...]
Archive for May 24th, 2008
24 May
Indictment and Trial of Bush and Cheney
By David Swanson Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference:http://www.wpaconference.org In a December 31, 2007, editorial, the New York Times faulted the current president and vice president of the United States for kidnapping innocent people, denying justice to prisoners, torturing, murdering, circumventing U.S. and international law, [...]
24 May
Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights
Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference:http://www.wpaconference.org Our First Amendment has been locked up in a chain-link Free Speech Zone. The Fourth Amendment is under warrantless surveillance and scared for its life. The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments have been detained without charge. And the Eighth [...]
24 May
Negotiating with ‘Terrorists and Radicals’ Is a Must
It has been suggested that it is hypocritical of President Bush to implicitly attack Barack Obama for his outrageous suggestion that the United States should actually talk to its adversaries. The President likened efforts to negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to attempts made to appease Adolf Hitler prior to World War II. Yet even his [...]
24 May
Bush and McCain’s Iran Insanity
President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats they used to justify the war against Iraq. Our intelligence agencies have said that Iran gave up the pursuit of a nuclear weapon three years ago. President Bush makes speeches as if [...]
24 May
Paying for War at the Pump
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted May 21, 2008. Five years after we invaded Iraq, the American taxpayers who paid for this grand imperial adventure are rewarded with skyrocketing gas prices. What’s it got to do with the price of gas? Would some reporter with access to the Republican presidential candidate please ask John McCain why [...]
24 May
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
By Vincent Bugliosi, Vanguard Press. Posted May 24, 2008. Why do so many in the liberal media simply move on to another topic after stating that Bush took the nation to war based on a lie? The following is an excerpt from Vincent Bugliosi’s new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. With [...]
24 May
Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Detainee Abuse Ignored
Tactics Continued Against Detainees By Carrie Johnson and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, May 21, 2008; Page A01 Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security Council but prompted no effort to curb questioning that the agents considered ineffective and [...]
24 May
Missing In Action
www.americanprogressaction.org On Monday, the nation will join its nearly 24 million veterans in remembering the American heroes who have lost their lives in war. Yesterday, the Senate honored U.S. troops by passing a 21st Century GI Bill, expanding educational benefits for veterans who joined the service after Sept. 11, 2001. “Congress today resolutely asserted that [...]
