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Torture Memo Author Sets Up Defense Fund to Fight Possible Impeachment
The federal judge who helped draft Justice Department memos on torture has set up a legal defense fund to pay the costs of defending against possible disciplinary or impeachment proceedings. Jay Bybee, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Las Vegas, quietly set up the fund last July following
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Pentagon Played Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails to Torture Detainees; Artists Complain
Will listening to hours of Britney Spears, Nine Inch Nails or even the Meow Mix jingle make you lose your mind? That’s exactly what military officials were hoping for when they blasted hours of loud music to prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan prisons. The National Security Archive , an independent research institute that works to publish declassified information, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request on October 22 to a variety of government agencies including the Department of the Army, U.S. Central Command, Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA, seeking all intelligence reports, briefings, and recordings of loud music used during the detention and interrogation of detainees.
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Dick Cheney: An Irascible Witness
When the FBI questioned Vice President Dick Cheney about his knowledge of the CIA leak affair, the vice president proved to be an irascible and at times uncooperative witness: he repeatedly
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10/29/2009BlogsObama Secrecy Watch: Don't Trench on My 'Executive Prerogatives'
…wiretapping program, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (then vice chair of the Senate intel committee) wrote a letter to chief briefer, Dick Cheney , saying that since he was "neither a technician nor an attorney" and since he was unable "to consult staff or counsel …
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10/28/2009InternationalBig Oil’s Heart of Darkness
The conviction of arms dealers and former top government officials in France could help to shed light on Dick Cheney 's Halliburton years.
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10/26/2009BlogsBarack Obama's Idea of 'Government Transparency' Would Make Dick Cheney Proud
…campaign? Remember when Barack Obama was running for president and he promised that, unlike secrecy-obsessed George Bush and Dick Cheney , he would insist on a “transparent” administration that wouldn’t hide information from the American people unless it …
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10/24/2009Voices - Fareed ZakariaA Third Surge?
Dick Cheney has accused Barack Obama of "dithering" over Afghanistan. I suppose if the president were to quickly invade a country on the …
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10/23/2009BlogsBarack Obama's Idea of "Government Transparency" Would Make Dick Cheney Proud
Remember when Barack Obama was running for president and he promised that, unlike secrecy-obsessed George Bush and Dick Cheney , he would insist on a “transparent” administration that wouldn’t hide information from the American people unless
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