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Cheney, White House directly involved in Halliburton/Iraq deal

In the New York Times.

“These new disclosures appear to contradict your assertions that you were not informed about the Halliburton contracts,” Mr. Waxman, Democrat of California, wrote. “They also seem to contradict the administration’s repeated assertions that political appointees were not involved in the award of the contracts to Halliburton.”

State Dept. defines “Torture” in a rather inconvenient way

VERY good article at this obscure blog.

Time Magazine – scandal closing in on President

Story for Monday here.

Huge Feature on Guantanamo

A real attempt at trying to show what the hell went on at Guantanamo. This article is a bid for a journalism award, really. A major feature.

Use of Mercs at AG was illegal

Associated Press.

“Fahrenheit 9/11″ -Moore Filmed Prisoners Being Mistreated in Iraq

According to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Red Cross document release imminent

Thanks to rant-o-rama reader Danny for this one: Document release imminent says the Telegraph.

Also, the ICRC has warned the US that it would be illegal to hold Saddam Hussein past June 30th unless he’s charged with a crime. This is in the Guardian UK.

KUBARK – Army Reforms Shattered as Vietnam-style torture reinstated

Every time someone tries to say to you that John Kerry was wrong or even a “flip flopper” to oppose the Vietnam war, make them read this. And then consider that these crimes have been banned by Army regulation for decades, yet suddenly were reinstated, we now know, over the objection of top Army lawyers. […]

Reagan and Bush – arming Saddam

Just in case we forget the details, good articles here and also here in the same publication about how it was done. Note the deep involvement of Donald Rumsfeld himself, meeting with Hussein personally to reassure him that it was OK for Iraq to use chemical weapons (the New York Times also reported on this […]

Explosions inside “Green Zone” – Saddam/US Palace Hit

AP Breaking News type story, we’ll see what this looks like in the am