Feeds
Spain should not investigate allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Spanish prosecutors formally recommended Friday.
- In what would be the clearest break yet from the Bush Administration's legal strategy in the war on terror, the Justice Department is preparing criminal charges against the only person still held inside the United States as an enemy combatant.
Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
For better or worse, the Federal Communications Commission has become best known during the eight years of the Bush Administration for a one-second glimpse of Janet Jackson’s right breast.
Republican John McCain called Monday for greater oversight of the Bush administration's proposed bailout of U.S. financial markets, saying the $700 billion plan being crafted by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson needed broader supervision.
The Bush Administration's "homeless czar" made his first visit to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans but promised no immediate increase in federal funding.
Efforts in Congress to let mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac refinance more at-risk loans could have a key flaw: many of those loans were made with such loose standards that borrowers are likely to default anyway, analysts said.
An Iranian diplomat freed two months after being abducted in Iraq accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, state television reported Saturday. The United States immediately denied any involvement in the Iranian's disappearance or release.
Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported Monday.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama blamed Bush administration failings in Iraq for strengthening the strategic position of Iran, which he says must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons.
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.
Samuel Alito took his place on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the son of an Italian immigrant and a political milestone in President Bush's campaign to give the judiciary a more conservative cast.
Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew PollA new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree.
Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tacticsSpeaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.
Immigration bill returns to Senate floorThe Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.[!]
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. isIt's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan Steps Down, Draws Mixed ReviewsU.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan will leave her job on Nov. 16. The announcement was made late Thursday afternoon in a news release from Buchanan's office. The move had been expected for some time after President Barack Obama's election.
Innocent Detainees Tell Their StoriesThe ACLU has released a video of interviews with a number of former Gitmo detainees describing their mistreatment and the effects it has had on them.
The Real Intelligence FailureAmerica's fundamental post 9/11 problem is that the resort to brute force is an easy option for a nation that is powerful but that does not necessarily seek to deal with the international subtleties. That go-it-alone aggressiveness was the model for the Bush Administration.
Barack Obama's Idea of 'Government Transparency' Would Make Dick Cheney Proud Just another day at the Cabal Office...
The Post-Gracious President by William McGurnThe Post-Gracious President Whenever he must make a difficult decision, Mr. Obama complains it's Bush's fault. While it's OK to blame Mr. Bush for spending too much, it's not OK to point out that Mr. Obama is already well on track to spend much more.
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"The often overlooked subplot of the wars of the post-9/11 period is their unprecedented scale of outsourcing and privatization," author Jeremy Scahill writes in The Nation.
Pakistan: Trapped In The US GameMusharraf proved excessively compliant from the beginning and this came as a shock even to the Bush Administration, but they realised his limitations in terms of compromises at the tactical level because of the military - which often put a spanner in the US agenda for Pakistan.
What "Controlling the Media" really means.With hypocrisy that pervasive, who could ever hope to take note of all of it? Still, the complaints from America's Right -- and especially former Bush officials -- that the Obama administration is attempting to "control the media," all because the White House criticizes Fox News …
British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence There is a vital development -- a new ruling from the British High Court -- in a story about which I've written many times before: the extraordinary joint British/U.S.
A Dogged Taliban Chief Rebounds, Vexing U.S.In late 2001, Mullah Muhammad Omar's prospects seemed utterly bleak. The ill-educated, one-eyed leader of the Taliban had fled on a motorbike after his fighters were swiftly routed by the Americans invading Afghanistan.
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comGlenn Greenwald gives his critical view on Obama winning Nobel Peace Prize. Personally I have mixed feelings. Warning: Some brutal pictures
Interior boss says no to drilling on 8 Utah parcelsEight of the 77 oil and gas lease parcels sold during a December auction that a saboteur wrecked and a federal judge later halted will be off-limits to drilling, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has decided.
GOP Learns Definition of 'Investigation,' Freaks OutRepublicans from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies, arguing that they were all for investigations until Attorney General Eric Holder outrageously called …
Only 3 of the 763 PATRIOT "Sneak-and-Peek" Requests in 2008 Involved Terrorism; 65% Were Drug CasesIn the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.
Blame Republicans for Big GovernmentAnd so-called defense spending — the cost of empire — will also increase, though perhaps not as much as it did under George W. Bush. That could change, however, if Obama's scenario about Iraq turns out to be too optimistic, as some people think it is.
Bush Admin. Admits Patriot Act Used Mostly in Drug Casesn 2001, the debate over the Patriot Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that foreign terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.
Obama team wants to continue surveillance lawThe Obama administration promised Congress on Tuesday to negotiate stronger privacy protections for Americans under terrorism surveillance but insisted on retaining current authority to track suspects and obtain records.
Under The Tree Of PatriotsIn a nation full of bluster, serious crimes are being ignored while those that choose to ignore them unabashedly lean on a document whose authors would have never tolerated them.
The Czar CanardDavid B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who served in the Justice Department under Reagan and H.W.
Study: CIA interrogations made for bad dataThe CIA's harsh interrogation program likely damaged the brain functions of terror suspects, diminishing their ability to provide information, according to a new scientific paper.
How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message. by Gerald Posner. September 18, 2009 | 12:39amAn interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, at age 81. Scrapping missile defense was the right thing to do, says former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski—but how the U.S. conveyed the decision to its Eastern European allies couldn't have been worse.
Log In | Register
