Archive for June, 2009
Tax-free No-bid Cost-plus Government Contracts
ABC News brings us a couple of juicy tidbits about “the two psychologists credited for being the architects of the CIA’s brutal interrogation program after 9/11″: Dr. James Mitchell and Dr. Bruce Jessen, who suggested and supervised waterboarding at secret prisons around the world … according to their associates, boasted of being paid $1,000 a [...]
Ha, Ha, Ha, Oops!
Me, last week: Everyone at al-Qaeda should get a huge laugh out of some of the lies we were fed by the high-value detainees who were key linchpins of al-Qaeda, lies that we swallowed wholesale. They may even get a few laughs out of who we regarded as key linchpins of al-Qaeda. The Washington Post, [...]
Orderly Retractions
John McCain on Fox News yesterday, speaking to that esteemed journalist, Greta Van Susteren: VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, the big talk in town today is CIA director Leon Panetta in The New Yorker says about Vice President Cheney that Vice President Cheney almost suggests he’s wishing that the country would be attacked again in order to [...]
Peter Lance, Triple Cross & Patrick Fitzgerald
We have been following the work of author/investigative journalist Peter Lance since the spectacular 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE was released in 2003. If you haven’t read it (or its follow up COVER UP), we highly recommend that you catch up. We’ve previously interviewed Lance upon the publication of 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE here and COVER [...]
Under The Healthcare Reform Radar
AP has a compelling story of political and moral neglect: Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt. When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian [...]
City of Champions!
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This Never Would Have Happened Under McCain
Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children. – America Blog (6/12/09) It’s pretty despicable. And before Obama claims he didn’t have a choice, he had a choice. Bush, Reagan and Clinton all filed briefs in court opposing current federal law as [...]
NIMBY Is Contagious
Take a group of people who really haven’t done anything. Take them to Guantanamo, that is. And they are tarred and feathered forever as the worst of the worst, even when responsible legal authorities determine — despite all the pressure that a thoroughly dishonest government can and does exert — that they never really did [...]
QOTD
Peter Schiff, one of a handful of people who correctly called the credit crunch and the recession, on Tuesday’s Daily Show: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Peter Schiff thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Unedited Interview Stewart: Is there a saving grace here? Is there [...]
Lies In The News
Here’s a little round-up of lies that made the news yesterday. (1) Little Lizzie lies again. This time, it was on Campbell Brown’s CNN show, during a “Great Debate” segment with Salon’s Joan Walsh: WALSH: Liz, the top — the top military leaders of our country want Guantanamo closed. President Bush, in June 2009 [sic], [...]