There goes another “ally.”
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There goes another “ally.” Fascinating stuff. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the “F word” at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Tuesday in a terse discussion between the two that touched on politics, religion and money, with Cheney finally telling […] Colonel Thomas Pappas, Military Intelligence, who took over Abu Ghraib on Nov. 19, 2003 as part of the “Gitmo-ization” of the prison, is named by another MI officer as being involved in the disappearance of a murdered prisoner at Abu Ghraib. On the left below is Pappas; on the right is the victim, Manadel al-Jamadi, […] To stick to the Geneva convention, and in the case of Taliban prisoners, and to hold military tribunals to determine who should be released immediately among those caught up in the American gulag system. As Bush’s February 7, 2002 decision shows, instead he overrulled all of this advice and ruled that Common Article 3 of […] Since about the mid-1970s, I’ve had a very mixed opinion about the old rock song “I’d Love to Change the World” by Ten Years After. The lyrics seem to be coming from the point of view of an apolitical person overwhelmed by what is happening around him (the 1960s and it’s various liberation and antiwar […] Reuters story on the dumped documents. If you don’t want to read my own take on it below or are not sure about it in anyway, read this instead and note how it coincides with what I am saying.AP Article linked at the Washington Post web site. (AP headline) Bush Claimed Right to Waive Torture Laws “…Bush’s previously secret Feb. 7, […] http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1245236,00.html Still digesting it here, Washington Post has these late-afternoon dumped documents, as do other papers. The timing was chosen to miss the evening news if at all possible, and screw up newspaper deadilnes making it impossible for reporters to analyze and file stories on time for Wednesday (and hopefully some new event will make it […] |
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