Democrats are urging President Bush not to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby following his conviction on perjury charges in the Valerie Plame case. His lawyers pledge to seek a retrial, or appeal. Significantly, Libby was never charged with leaking Plame’s identity—whoever… Read moreScooter takes hit for Dick: juror
From the Center for Constitutional Rights via Buzzflash, March 6: US to Put 14 Ghost Detainees From CIA Black Sites Before Sham Tribunals at Guantanamo Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement in response to the news that… Read more“Ghost detainees” from secret CIA gulag to Gitmo tribunals
Some recent gaffes or revelations (depending on your point of view) by Big Names in the media are providing more fodder for the always-eager conspiracy set. First is Seymour Hersh‘s latest in the March 5 New Yorker, “The Redirection: Is… Read moreSy Hersh, Zbiggy Brzezinski embrace conspiracy theory?
The arrogance of invoking Cuban “sovereignty” to justify this trangression when the Cubans oppose everything Washington is doing at Guantánamo Bay is staggering even by the standards of our deeply cynical age. Oh and by the way, freedom’s on the… Read moreCourt: no habeas corpus for Gitmo detainees
Francis Boyle has had some good stuff to say in recent years, but he now seems to be losing it. He is going way overboard here, but this is the stuff that the relentlessly annoying Alex Jones laps up. Yes,… Read moreFrancis Boyle: “Neo-Nazis have signed us onto WWIII”
Canada caves in—the US remains intransigent. From This Week of Kamloops, BC, Jan. 28: Maher Arar is Kamloops’ newest millionaire, but in an impassioned speech Friday, his lawyer reminded potential detractors that no amount of money will help Arar and… Read moreCanada: compensation and apology for “rendition” victim
Freedom’s on the march. From AlJazeera, Jan. 18: The US defence department has released new rules allowing terror suspects to be convicted and possibly executed on the basis of hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony. The rules, which the department… Read morePentagon terror trials to allow hearsay evidence
Impeaching George Bush is a damn good idea. But the full page ad in the Jan. 12 New York Times by ImpeachBush.org appears to be a bid by the unrepentantly Stalinist Workers World Party to garner mainstream liberal support, probably… Read moreStalino-fascists go mainstream
A little more than a year ago, it was a mysterious sweet smell that mystified New Yorkers. This time a mysterious sinister smell. A psychological warfare experiment? From Reuters, Jan. 10: A powerful, mysterious smell of gas wafted through much… Read moreSmell of fear in NYC; dead birds in Austin
An ACLU press release, Nov. 28, online at Common Dreams: Khaled El-Masri, Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse, Seeks Acknowledgement, Explanation and Apology RICHMOND, Virginia – The American Civil Liberties Union today argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals… Read more“Rendition” victim seeks re-instatement of suit against CIA
Hmmm, it seems that all the lefties who weighed in against the admittedly vile Judith Miller’s journalistic privilege in the Plame affair will be in the uncomfortable position of having to cheer her on this time around. From AP, Nov…. Read moreJudith Miller in the news again (for better or worse…)
Is this a great time to be alive or what? From The Independent, Nov. 19: A high-tech and unmanned “bionic wasp” capable of destroying a cell of militants or guerrillas is among a series of futuristic weapons being discussed by… Read moreIsraeli mad scientists develop “bionic wasps”
