Nancy: The Hits Keep Comin’ [UPDATE: Boehner Ups The Ante] »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 27, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), Elizabeth Warren, Intelligence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, TARP, Torture | 120 Comments
(bumped up and updated extensively)
Category: Torture
who’s going down for the torture memos? »
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 26, 2009 in Barack Obama, Bush administration, Colin Powell, Current Affairs, George Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 109 Comments
(Bumped up from early morning.) In my earlier post, holder: obama does not decide who will be prosecuted, I wrote, “It appears Obama opened a whole can of worms with the release of these memos. Not only does he lack the authority to decide whether there will be prosecutions or not, I assume he also [...]
The Tortured Logic of the Torture Fans »
By Larry Johnson on Apr 26, 2009 in Current Affairs, Intelligence, MSNBC, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Torture | 259 Comments
(bumped up from Friday evening) Although Keith Olbermann has become something of an insufferable boor, he is finally on to something that I would pay money to watch but under specific conditions. First, check out Keith’s challenge: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy But here’s where I differ with [...]
Newt Gingrich on Torture »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in Bush administration, Torture | 47 Comments
Okay, I am VERY curious. I want to ask all of you something:
Nancy Pelosi Is Lying »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in CIA, Congress (House & Senate), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Torture | 116 Comments
Now that President Obama has teed her up — by releasing documents before he thought out all the possible repercussions (except, he thought, to make his MoveOn crowd happy [as if]) — Nancy Pelosi is yowling loudly no way no how, no siree, au contraire, that she was aware that she and lead Congressional members [...]
Tyler Drumheller on Torture »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 25, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Current Affairs, Intelligence, Torture | 42 Comments
Tyler Drumheller had a distinguished career in the CIA and was chief of the CIA’s covert operations in Europe at the time that the Bush administration was cooking the facts to justify going to war against Iraq. Since he was in Europe, he had intimate knowledge of the infamous “Curveball,” being held in Germany, and [...]
POTUS Blinks, Day 7 on the Torture Memos »
By John Batchelor on Apr 24, 2009 in Dept. of Justice (Obama), Obama Administration, Torture | 22 Comments
White House Plans to Release More Documents — and Photographs, Too.
Old Dads in the Dock »
By John Batchelor on Apr 24, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, Dick Cheney, DoD, President Barack Obama, Torture | 102 Comments
The Wall Street Journal Inquires Re The Torture Memos. “So the CIA requests a legal review … – and, seven years later, Mr. Obama says only the legal advisers who are no longer in government should be investigated…Is this President going to put his predecessor in the dock too?”
Bob Baer on Torture’s Ineffectiveness »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 23, 2009 in Intelligence, Torture | 28 Comments
First, here is a graphic scene of torture carried out in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that “shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.” The video and article (WARNING: the article is far more graphic) were featured on ABC’s [...]
Who’s Running the White House? [Updates] »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 22, 2009 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, George Soros, Intelligence, MoveOn.org, Terrorism, Torture | 124 Comments
(bumped up from Wednesday morning) George Soros, maybe? The problem in appeasing these activist groups is that there are profoundly serious intelligence-gathering and counterterrorism implications, and extraordinarily time- and energy-consuming legal tasks and confusing agency expectations behind what Obama is suddenly proposing that could suck all the oxygen out of his presidency and the entire [...]
Lieberman Opportunity Fire On Torture Memos »
By John Batchelor on Apr 22, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, NQR Live Chat, Nocturnal Warrior, President Barack Obama, Torture | 18 Comments
Is it a coincidence that Joe Lieberman of Connecticut opens fire on the Torture Memos imbroglio at the same time as Dick Cheney? No. Both unchained pols were given a free shot by the POTUS trip to the CIA yesterday in order to explain, explain, explain the release of the memos. The Obama administration has [...]
holder: obama does not decide who will be prosecuted »
By American Girl in Italy on Apr 22, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Torture | 104 Comments
(bumped up from Wednesday afternoon) According to the Daily Beast, the Justice Department is “incensed” over comments made by Gibbs, Emanuel and Obama that there would be no prosecutions surrounding the so called torture memos. The issue was discussed on Morning Joe today, including the comments from the Obama administration and the Justice Department. Visit [...]
Why POTUS at the CIA? »
By John Batchelor on Apr 20, 2009 in CIA, President Barack Obama, Torture | 15 Comments
The POTUS visit to the CIA HQ this news cycle is mysterious. The case is presented that the White House decision to release the so-called Torture Memos, over the counsel of former DCIs (left, Mike Hayden of the Bush administration) and even the present DCI, Leon Panetta, has caused a rift that the POTUS seeks [...]
Janeane Garofalo’s Convenient Ethic$ »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 20, 2009 in Current Affairs, Tax Day, Terrorism, Torture | 51 Comments
You all read American Girl In Italy‘s takedown of Janeane Garofalo in “‘this is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks’.” Now, via The Right Scoop, we have a mash-up of Ms. Garofalo’s wildly inconsistent — and might I add anti-democratic? — thoughts on the importance of dissent: Ms. Garofalo’s [...]
Larry Johnson on ABC News »
By SusanUnPC on Apr 18, 2009 in CIA, Larry Johnson, Torture | 14 Comments
Larry is joined on ABC News by his good friend, Jane Mayer, whose book is featured in our middle column:
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