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Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism
Glenn Greenwald/Salon
So that’s where the American consensus now lies. The practices used by Britain, Spain, India and Indonesia (and the Reagan administration) of treating Terrorists as criminals and convicting them in normal courts — with due process — is too fringe Leftist for the United States, which has spent decades sermonizing to the rest [...]
Authors of Bush torture memos to be cleared of misconduct
Raw Story
The men who advised former President Bush to waterboard detainees and deprive them of sleep will be cleared of charges of professional misconduct by a Justice Department ethics report.
Report: Bush order allowing murder of US citizens abroad still in effect
Stephen C. Webster/Rawstory
If a United States citizen was determined to have joined a foreign terrorist group, that person could be legally murdered under orders given by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks.
International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales
afterdowningstreet.org
Hat tip: Linda
INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) [...]
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Former CIA agent: Bush made intelligence problems worse
David Edwards and Daniel Tencer/Rawstory
A former CIA field officer says the Bush administration’s reforms of the intelligence community have made it more difficult to prevent terrorist operations.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Jack Rice, now an on-air personality at Air America radio, said the creation of the National Counterterrorism Center and the office of the Director [...]
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Revealed: Bush White House Raised Terror Alert Based On Con Man’s Wild Al Jazeera “Decoding” Claims
Liliana Segura/AlterNet
A new article reports how a Nevada-based software firm employee duped the CIA into believing he held the key to decoding secret terrorist messages.
From the Dept. of You-Can’t-Make-This-Shit-Up, TPM Muckracker reports:
A self-styled Nevada codebreaker convinced the CIA he could decode secret terrorist targeting information sent through Al Jazeera broadcasts, prompting the Bush White House [...]
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Obama Administration to Restore Missing Bush Emails
Mother Jones
The Obama administration and two nonprofits have reached a wide-ranging settlement in their legal battle over millions of missing Bush-era White House emails, the three parties announced Monday. The agreement—first reported by Mother Jones on Friday—is a major victory for the plaintiffs, who sued in October 2007 to force the recovery of missing messages, [...]
The Real Reason Bush Has A Hideout In Paraguay
When I saw this yesterday, it just explained so much to me:
Paraguay has become South America’s leading marijuana producer, its interior minister acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press.
Paraguay in a spin about Bush’s alleged 100,000 acre hideaway
Tom Phillips in Cuiab
The Guardian, Monday 23 October 2006
Meeting the new couple next door can be an [...]
Former US diplomat could make ‘hundreds of millions’ off Iraqi oil fields
Daniel Tencer | Rawstory
Oil company’s involvement casts shadow on legitimacy of Iraqi constitution
A former US ambassador who played an instrumental role in the drafting of Iraq’s constitution stands to make “hundreds of millions” of dollars from an oil deal he struck that was only possible because of a constitutional provision he helped push [...]
Bush to The Hague