Posts filed under “Corruption”
A Glimpse Into The Soul Of George W. Bush
Former Guantanamo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene is in the news again, thanks to an exclusive interview with ABC News. Boumediene is best known for Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which the Supreme Court ruled in June 2008 that Guantanamo detainees have the right to habeas corpus. Boumediene was transported to Guantanamo in 2001 on what [...]
On The Genetic Persistence Of Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
There must be a Compulsive Delusional Revisionism gene. And Liz Cheney seems to have inherited it. On Thursday, she denied all those scurrilous allegations that Dick Cheney ever pushed a non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney whether her daddy’s statement at the National Press Club on June 1 [...]
Cheney’s Heavy But Invisible Hand
Three weeks ago, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote: Third–and here comes the blistering fact–when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops “the Cheney method of interrogation and torture”, the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a very [...]
Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
For almost eight years, Cheney took the high road and maintained an honorable silence on the subject. This man couldn’t maintain a dignified, honorable silence for even six months on the policies of the Obama administration. Imagine what it must have taken for him to sustain a dignified, honorable silence for almost eight long years. [...]
How Many War Crimes Will It Take Till He Acts?
More evidence is trickling out to suggest that preventing another terrorist attack may never have been the prime motivation behind the torture the Bush-Cheney regime practiced on high-value al Qaeda detainees. That the prime motivation may have been to produce (as opposed to, for example, discover) evidence to support one of their main justifications for [...]
Ticking Time Bomb Scenario, Version 2.0
It looks like the ticking time bomb scenario is in need of a little revision. One Monday, Liz Cheney claimed that this is “exactly the situation my daddy these folks were in”: So, if you knew that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had information about an imminent threat on the United States. Information that would result in [...]
Conflicts Of Interest, Tra La La …
The notion of conflict of interest seems to be going out of style. For starters, neither the New York Times nor former Attorney General John Ashcroft care very much about the concept: You can say one thing for John Ashcroft: he’s not short on chutzpah. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, the former [...]
Madonna Constantine Rides Again
Columbia University’s noose-lady plagiarist professor, Madonna Constantine, is in the news again, doing what she does best: playing the race card to make outrageous claims of racial victimization. For the back story to what’s going down now, check out this post from February 2008. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet [...]
Innocent As Charged?
Trying to spin Ted Stevens as a wrongfully accused innocent, who should never have been charged and tried for the crimes that he is alleged to have committed, would appear to be a thoroughly idiotic notion. Which must be why the Republican machine has embraced it with both arms, and kissed it on the cheek. [...]
But Will The Fat Boy Sing?
The House Judiciary Committee announced yesterday evening that Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are going to testify before the Committee after all: In an agreement reached today between the former Bush administration and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers will testify [...]