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Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture
A nonpartisan group led by a former top Bush administration official concluded a two-year review on Tuesday that finds the former president and his top advisers knowingly ordered interrogation techniques that U.S. officials have previously referred to as torture. “After conducting our own two-year investigation, weighing the credibility of all…
Sesame Street composer: U.S. ‘perverted’ my music to torture prisoners
Christopher Cerf, creator of the children’s program The Electric Company and an award-winning composer who produced the theme song to Sesame Street, told a reporter recently that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “perverted” his music “to serve evil” by using his most famous composition to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.…
Chomsky: Bush kidnapped and tortured, Obama murders
MIT professor Noam Chomsky on Monday decried the use of drones against suspected terrorists, saying that it was murder and violated due process. “If Bush, the Bush Administration, didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers,” he said on Democracy Now. “If the Obama Administration decides…
Maddow relays censored memo on CIA ‘war crimes’ during Bush Administration
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night explained a legal memo that advised the Bush Administration that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were torture and therefore illegal. Wired reporter Spencer Ackerman obtained the memo, written by State Department counselor Philip Zelikow, through a Freedom on Information Act request. Bush told NBC’s…
Iraqi defector ‘Curveball’ details lies that led to war
“Curveball,” the Iraqi defector who fed the Bush Administration bogus claims of mobile weapons labs being developed by Saddam Hussein — claims that were later gussied up and presented to the United Nations as incontrovertible fact — is finally explaining the tall tale that helped launch America’s military. “My main…
Ron Paul: Bush administration reacted with ‘glee’ after 9/11
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday that President George W. Bush’s administration was actually happy after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011. Speaking to about 1,000 students on the Iowa State Campus in Ames, Iowa, Paul explained that the Bush administration was eager to capitalize on the attacks.…
WSJ Poll: 12% of Americans judge the Bush decade ‘good’ or ‘great’
Are we supposed to feel better that the figure isn’t any higher? (Think Progress): According to the poll, a combined 58% said the decade was either “awful” or “not so good,” 29% said it was fair, and just 12% said it was either “good” or “great.” [...] Asked what they…
Yes we can
I saw this video at Ezra’s and started to choke up, like the giant nerd that I am. The idea of America has seemed so unlikely for so long that I thought it was most likely dead for me, but turns out that my hopes could surface once again with…
Bush administration embraces anti-contraception agenda
Surprising absolutely no one, the Bush administration told the vast majority of the population that uses or has used contraception that we can fuck off, and that we are dirty whores* who deserve a dressing down from perfect strangers that are supposedly hired to provide service. In fact, the administration…
Megawatt choadery
Snowfall in June, barking cats, PZ Myers converting to Christianity—there are some things that just seem impossible. I would have put “Robert Novak demonstrating that he’s an even bigger turd than you thought” on the list, because up until this afternoon, I would have thought it physically impossible for him…
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