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Documents shoot holes in Cheney’s theories on torture
What a difference an election makes. Our national position has now shifted from “we don’t torture” to “we...
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EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty documents
Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, “The U.S. government is still blocking the release of information...
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Senators Accuse Pentagon of Delay in Recovering Millions
The Pentagon has done little to collect at least $100 million in overcharges paid in deals arranged by corrupt former officials...
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Obama administration spearheads wage cuts for American workers
By Patrick Martin | The wage cuts imposed on auto workers at Chrysler and General Motors at the insistence of the Obama...
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The compulsive liars in blue
IT’S NOT the violence of the police that gives away their nature–it’s the systematic compulsive Bart Simpson-style...
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Obama administration indicates military commission trials to resume
Recent statements by top Obama administration officials and reports in the New York Times and Washington Post indicate that...
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War Criminals Seek Safe Haven With Lib Dems
By Craig Murray | Apparently some of the Blairite right of New Labour are in talks with Paddy Pantsdown over the possibility...
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MP angered by Street View ‘invasion’
By Ed O’Mara | CITY MP Stewart Jackson has accused “creepy” global internet giant Google of an unacceptable...
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Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution...
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Prosecuting War Crimes
The following is an excerpt from a talk by Nick Mottern on April 19, 2009, delivered after receiving a Peace and Justice...
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UN rebuke on racism conference boycott
TOP UN officials have slammed “a handful” of Western countries for boycotting a UN conference on racism as the...
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FBI database use to remain secret
Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details...
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Obama presidency keeps some Bush secrets
WASHINGTON – Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep...
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A golden opportunity to test Obama pledge on open government
IT is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a...
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Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN | It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack...
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FDA Scientists Accuse Agency of Corruption, Intimidation
A group of nine FDA scientists has sent letters to top politicians, accusing agency managers of intimidating and coercing...
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Knife crime figures ‘were fiddled’
Ministers have been accused of “fiddling the figures” after new statistics undermined claims made in a notorious...
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U.N. report says U.S. rendition policy broke international law
By Julie Sell | LONDON - A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international...
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Obama’s backsliding on torture
guardian.co.uk | Not long ago, I marched across the gravel of Guantánamo Bay‘s Camp Echo with two overstuffed grocery...
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Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit
By Bob Egelko | President Obama’s Justice Department defended former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo in a San...
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George Bush could be next on the war crimes list
THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the International Criminal Court’s next target. David Crane, an international...
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The Case for Prosecuting Bush Officials
By Daphne Eviatar | The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry”...
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BUSH’S LAWYERS GAVE GREEN LIGHT TO ILLEGAL SPYNG
By Michael Isikoff | In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the...
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CIA destroyed terror interrogation tapes
By Alex Spillius | The revelation that far more tapes had been destroyed than previously acknowledged came in a letter filed...
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OLC Authorized Pentagon to Ignore Bill of Rights On U.S. Soil
By Daphne Eviatar | In an October 2001 memo released on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of...




