What Dick Cheney didn’t know about Valerie PlameNotes from an FBI interview with former US VP Dick Cheney about the 2003 outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame have been released, revealing Cheney claimed “near total amnesia” on the whole scandal. Read the list of the important events and dates he just can’t recall.
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CIA kept detainees alive to torture them more
A human rights lawyer claims that under the Bush administration, the CIA tortured some terror suspects so badly during interrogation sessions, it had to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
revealed How the Pentagon used PSYOPS on the US public
New evidence uncovered by Raw Story exposes how the US military’s propaganda arm used “psychological operations” tactics on the US public to sell them on the Iraq War.
The climate change report Bush tried to suppress
America’s EPA has finally released a 2007 report suppressed by the Bush White House, which recommends the government begin regulating greenhouse emissions because of the serious threat posed by climate change.
The empire strikes back: Bush’s Star Wars plan was wrong
US Defense Secretary and Republican Robert Gates has written an op-ed for the NYT, arguing Obama was right to quash Bush’s plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe for a more “pragmatic” approach.
A sneak-peek inside the Bush White House
A former Bush speech writer has released some tasty tidbits from his forthcoming insider’s account of working in the Dubbya White House, revealing the former President’s trash talk about Obama, Palin, Biden and others.
Sullivan: Dear Bush, only you can prevent torture
As a fellow Christian and conservative, commentator Andrew Sullivan writes an open letter to former US President George W. Bush, asking him to take full responsibility for the torture perpetrated under his regime, so the country can finally move forward.
Bush and Cheney’s final hours
TIME tells the tale of the tumultuous final hours of the Bush presidency, as Dubbya and VP Dick Cheney butted heads over whether to grant a pardon to Cheney’s former chief of staff and convicted felon, Scooter Libby.
CIA planned to deploy teams of assassins
More information about the CIA’s secret plans to knock-off Al Qaeda leaders has been revealed, with news they were planning to train and deploy anti-terrorist hit squads.
Cheney’s secret plans revealed
The Wall Street Journal have revealed the details of the secret CIA plans Dick Cheney kept hidden from Congress: a Presidential order to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders.
Cheney’s big secret
Former Vice President Dick Cheney directly ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from the United States Congress for eight years of the Bush administration, the NYT revealed this weekend. Expect sparks to fly.
Time to acknowledge North Korea’s terror
A year has passed since George Bush removed North Korea from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. It’s time we put them back on it, says Joshua Stanton .
Clarke: 9/11 “trauma” is no excuse
9/11 may have changed many things, says Richard A. Clarke, but it did not change the Constitution — Bush officials can’t use it to justify their actions.
Why Bush invaded Iraq: the war on Gog and Magog
The Rumsfeld memos are extraordinary, but there is another, perhaps more alarming, story about Bush’s Christian fundamentalism and the Iraq War that has yet to come to light.
Rumsfeld and Cheney: torture as self-justification
“He’s a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that.” So said Richard Nixon of Donald Rumsfeld back in 1971.
Cheney’s role in waterboarding thickens
Former NBC investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the VP’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraq prisoner.
Cheney: “No regrets” on interrogation
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney told CBS’s Face The Nation that he has no regrets over the War on Terror or the interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration.
Condi’s Nixon moment
Asked if waterboarding is torture, Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that “if it was authorised by the President, it didn’t violate our obligations under the Convention against Torture”.
Spain can take George Bush to court
A Spanish judge has announced a formal criminal investigation into Bush officials involved in torture policy.
The timeline of torture
Firedoglake’s Emptywheel have constructed a timeline of torture under the Bush Administration based on the newly released CIA memos.
The banality of Bush White House evil
Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that the US government methodically authorised torture and lied about it, writes Frank Rich.
Military agency warned against torture in 2002
A US military agency warned the Bush administration in 2002 that harsh interrogation tactics could yield “unreliable information”. Looks like they didn’t listen.
Krugman: We need to investigate American torture and war
America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. What next?
