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Funding the White House campaign
The road to the seat of power in the White House is not easy, and certainly not cheap. This year’s US presidential race is on track to be the most expensive in history. Al
Read More »White House ‘buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs’
Tim Reid in Washington and Sam Coates in London | MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
Read More »George Tenet And White House Admit Iraq Intelligence Chief Told Them Iraq Had No WMD
Ron Suskind was on NPR this morning to discuss his new book The Way of the World, which alleges Iraq’s intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush told the US before the war that Iraq had
Read More »General Accuses White House of War Crimes
By Dan Froomkin | The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. In his
Read More »White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” media
By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility, the president’s former press secretary Scott McClellan has published a book indicting the White
Read More »Ominous Signs That White House Wants More Wars
By Jim Lobe | Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping
Read More »White House Influence Is Cited in Corruption Trial
By Eric Lipton | A prominent Illinois Republican Party leader may have tried to use his friendship with the former White House political aide Karl Rove to push for the ouster of the United
Read More »Torturers in the White House
By Ruth Conniff The biggest news of the last week went virtually uncovered by the mainstream, print media. ABC News first reported last Wednesday that top Bush Administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice,
Read More »Nato to back US missile defence
Nato countries have agreed to back US plans to site a missile defence system in Europe, at a summit in Romania. Member states will endorse a communiqué backing the plan to position missile defence
Read More »’03 U.S. Memo Approved Torture
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2003 gave military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment, according to
Read More »Bush calls for more eavesdropping
US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a ‘vital’ pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest
Read More »A third American war crime in the making
The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an
Read More »Bush Aide Quits Over Misuse Of Money
(AP) – An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.Felipe Sixto was
Read More »Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran
The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in 2003, has dealt a severe blow to the Bush-Cheney agenda of forcible regime change in
Read More »Yes, we do torture: White House finally comes clean
PETER URBAN Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham can clear at least one task off his full plate. His criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes won’t touch waterboarding. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
Read More »White House Defends ‘Waterboarding’ Torture
The White House is defending the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding in certain, rare circumstances when suspects are believed to have knowledge of an imminent threat. VOA’s Paula Wolfson reports the
Read More »The Emails that Dick Cheney Deleted
Harper’s Magazine Late last week, right after official White House spokesmen made a series of either evasive or completely false statements about the mysterious case of the vanishing, then reappearing, then perhaps no really
Read More »White House Can Keep Its Secrets – For Now
Bush Admin. May Keep Visitor Records Private While Appealing Court Decision To Open Files AP A federal judge agreed Friday to let the Bush administration keep secret the lists of visitors to the White
Read More »VIDEO: CIA trying to undermine the White House?
Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. She is the author of Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire:
Read More »What are they hiding?
A federal judge has taken a significant step in dismantling the wall of secrecy the Bush administration has needlessly built around the White House. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that White House visitors logs were
Read More »Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran
The Times The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat,
Read More »Miami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.
Read More »Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks
Yahoo [via Granma International] flamesong 20th August 2007 The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost
Read More »The CIA proposed that I assassinate Fidel in Chile, Veciana confesses
Founder of Alpha 66, identified as an accomplice in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy Granma International It was the CIA that informed Antonio Veciana Blanch, 10 months ahead of time, of a visit to
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