Daily Archives: July 15, 2007 »
Blatant Criminal Behavior by the Bush Administration
Pacific Views Did you know that a couple of American attorneys, Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, are the only people who can prove they have standing in a suit charging the government of illegally
Read More »Bush Rejects Appeal for New Iraq Plan
By Paula Wolfson The White House has rejected an appeal from two prominent Senate Republicans for a new approach to the Iraq war. VOA’s Paula Wolfson reports the senators want the president to draft
Read More »Bush Has Made America Less Safe
Iran Daily Bad decisions by President Bush in the Iraq war have made the United States less safe from terrorism, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday on a campaign visit to Oelwein. Obama
Read More »‘No need’ for a UK Guantanamo
Press Association Police chiefs have insisted they needed to hold terror suspects for longer without trial but rejected any move towards Guantanamo Bay-style internment. There was confusion after the head of the Association of
Read More »Bush’s watchdog for intelligence kept quiet for 5 1/2 years
It failed to report any misdeeds in terror war until ’06 By John Solomon An independent oversight board created to identify intelligence abuses after the CIA scandals of the 1970s did not send any
Read More »MK Ultra: Experimenting With the Mind
By Thomas E. Ricks The CIA was eager to examine the use of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs to modify the behavior of targeted individuals, and so it asked commercial drug manufacturers to pass along samples
Read More »US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran
By Peter Symonds A little publicised amendment to the defence spending bill denouncing Iran for the “murder” of US soldiers in Iraq was proposed by Independent Democrat Joseph Lieberman and passed unanimously in the
Read More »Lock terror suspects up indefinitely say police
· Critics’ anger over internment plans · PM briefed on ‘extraordinary measure’ Mark Townsend and Jamie Doward Sunday July 15, 2007 The Observer One of Britain’s most senior police officers has demanded a return
Read More »US soldier pays man to shoot him in the leg to avoid returning to Iraq
A soldier who recently returned from Iraq has admitted he paid someone $500 (€365) to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid returning for another tour.Jonathan Aponte, 20, claimed he had been
Read More »The White House Has a Manual for Silencing Protesters and Demonstrations
By Matthew Rothschild After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to
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