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Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees
A new report by the watchdog group Physicians for Human Rights alleges Monday that the Bush Administration experimented on terrorism suspects during their enhanced interrogation program put in force starting in 2002. The group’s review, which examined Bush-era documentation, asserts that the administration violated laws set up in the wake…
Bush on waterboarding: ‘I’d do it again’
Speaking to a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Wednesday, former president George W. Bush told onlookers that his administration did in fact waterboard alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and suggested that his action saved American lives. “Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Bush said, according to a local…
Jay Leno: Muslim Miss USA hopes to get ‘off the no-fly list’
Ex-Bush official: My ‘affirmative action’ theory wasn’t to imply contest was ‘rigged’ Newly-crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih is the pride of her native village, with residents saying the Lebanese-American not only brought honor to southern Lebanon but also offered a different image of Shiite Muslims often stereotyped as radicals. Meanwhile,…
Ex-MI6 boss slams United States for abandoning democratic principles in terror fight
Nigel Inkster, the former assistant head of the British spy service MI6, slammed the United States’ handling of its fight on terror, including what he called the “frenzied, alarmist response” to the recently foiled Christmas Day bomber. Writing in an article published in the International Institute for Strategic Studies journal…
Ex-cyber czar wouldn’t trust government to filter the internet
Richard Clarke, who was the United States’ first special adviser to the president for cyber-security during the Bush administration, believes that cyber-war is a very real threat to the United States. He fears, however that an aversion to government regulation is standing in the way of protecting vital systems. “Regulation…
Flush human rights: Activist stocks campus bathrooms with torture toilet paper
Human rights are getting flushed down the toilet over and over again. Literally. In an attempt to draw attention to the practices of former Bush adviser John Yoo, an activist at the University of California Berkeley School of Law installed toilet paper printed with the United Nations Convention Against Torture…
Karl Rove calls Fox News ‘sad’
The protesters may be getting to Karl Rove and he’s taking it out on Fox News. President George W. Bush’s former senior advisor became irritated Sunday morning with Fox News hosts Dave Briggs, Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris after they asked him about a Code Pink protest. Code Pink’s Jodi…
E-mail: Ex-CIA Director Porter Goss agreed with destroying waterboarding tapes, Miers ‘livid’
Former CIA Director Porter Goss agreed with a 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videos showing waterboarding, but nobody told White House counsel Harriet Miers, who was “livid” to find out afterward, newly released CIA documents show. The documents show that, despite Goss’ agreement, officials almost immediately began worrying they’d done…
Bush ‘knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent’
Former US president George W. Bush and his top aides were accused Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the ‘war on terror’. The allegations were made in a document by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, once chief of staff to Bush’s…
NYT reporter: Bush’s entire wiretapping program may have been illegal
Upon a federal judge’s ruling that the Bush administration illegally wiretapped an Saudi-based Islamic charity and two American lawyers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times alleged the Bush administration’s entire warrantless surveillance program may have been illegal. “Plaintiffs must  and have  put forward enough evidence…
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