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Hard to exaggerate how bad the real assessment is; once again Bush and his friends in the media have sold the public a huge ripoff. To their credit, most didn’t buy it this time. Bring the troops home.

Polish and Romanian security officials confirm, despite official denials from their governments.

At least 39 people have been held by the U.S. as secret off-the-books prisoners, although it’s impossible to know how many are still being held. At least two of those secretly imprisoned were children.

Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch said it was unknown if the suspects were now in U.S. or foreign custody, or […]

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. This is a very ominous new dimension in the Iraq fiasco.

UPDATE: There is a lot of contradictory bullshit coming out of the Turkish and US governments about this; this seems more likely to be a confirmation to me than a denial of the story. The U.S. military command […]

JUDGE JUST PASSED SENTENCE – $200,000 FINE – THE TOUGHEST SENTENCE AGAINST A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SINCE WATERGATE

JUDGE HAS NOT RULED YET ON REQUEST TO BE FREE ON BAIL PENDING APPEAL

This matches, on the low end, the matching 2.5 to 8 year matching sentences given to John Mitchell, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman […]