"Time Is Running Out on the CIA Torture Report," the National Journal reports: Backroom negotiations over the release of a long-delayed Senate report on the George W. Bush administration’s use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" practices are again hitting a wall.[…]The Senate is set to adjourn in mid-December, but [Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne] Feinstein can still hold…
On August 21, U.S. citizen Bradley Manning – now known as Chelsea Manning -was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information to the public about the killing of civilians in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; drone strikes in Yemen; torture in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Egypt; the coup in Honduras; corruption in Tunisia, the…
The most damning credible allegation to emerge regarding the Bush Administration is arguably that Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials ordered the use of torture to produce false evidence of a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff at the State Department…