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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 don’t torture anymore.” Let us, then, disabuse ourselves of former President George W. Bush’s notion that
Read More »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 about a secret intellectual property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation around the world,
Read More »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 of Kellogg Brown & Root, the defense contractor, even though the officials admitted
Read More »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 administration demonstrate the class strategy that American big business as a whole
Read More »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 lying. They could be caught on film battering someone with a cricket bat, and in seconds, they’d
Read More »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 President Barack Obama plans to resume the system of military commission trials for some Guantánamo
Read More »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 of defecting to the Lib Dems. As the Blairite right is well
Read More »MP angered by Street View ‘invasion’
By Ed O’Mara | CITY MP Stewart Jackson has accused “creepy” global internet giant Google of an unacceptable invasion of privacy after its Street View cameras arrived in the city. The US company is
Read More »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 of top Bush officials. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero were both popularly elected
Read More »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 Award from the WESPAC Foundation in White Plains, New York. I asked
Read More »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 meeting kicked off in Geneva on Monday. One hundred and three countries are participating in
Read More »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 of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents
Read More »Obama presidency keeps some Bush secrets
WASHINGTON – Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a
Read More »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 US military base and watched over day and night by army
Read More »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 Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high
Read More »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 scientists into changing or suppressing scientific data. In October, the scientists sent a letter to
Read More »Knife crime figures ‘were fiddled’
Ministers have been accused of “fiddling the figures” after new statistics undermined claims made in a notorious Home Office press release. The data, put out last year despite protests from NHS statisticians that it
Read More »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 law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects
Read More »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 sacks and tramped up the stairs of the hut where a prisoner sat, shackled and waiting.
Read More »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 Francisco federal court Friday, arguing that a prisoner formerly held as an enemy combatant had no right
Read More »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 law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an
Read More »The Case for Prosecuting Bush Officials
By Daphne Eviatar | The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry” convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal for a sort of “truth and reconciliation”
Read More »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 U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States,
Read More »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 by US government lawyers in New York. The American Civil Liberties Union has
Read More »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 Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not
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