Well well, it seems Amnesty International’s conspiracy theories are decisively vindicated! Straight from the horse’s mouth! From the AP, Sept. 6 (Newspeak phrase in bold): Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged previously secret CIA… Read moreSecret CIA gulag: Bush admits it
More and more of such reports. From the UK Daily Mail, Sept. 5: Fury as academics claim 9/11 was ‘inside job’ The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an “inside job”, according to a… Read more9-11 conspiranoiacs go mainstream
We just love all the crowing in the right-wing press about how Valerie Plame Wilson and the liberals who cheer her on are not going after Richard Armitage now that he has been revealed as the source of the leak… Read moreArmitage takes hit for Rove
The below Aug. 30 AP account notes the growing use of the term “Islamic fascism” by the Bush administration and its amen chorus in recent days. The response has been predictable in the extreme, with lefties (e.g. The Huffington Post)… Read moreBush sees “Islamic fascism”; world misses irony
Just in case you missed this one. From the New York Times, July 7 (links and emphasis added): Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting… Read moreNeo-Nazis infiltrate US military
Sometimes you have to look at your opponent’s propaganda to get a realistic sense of your own side’s weaknesses—call it an inoculation against groupthink. A case in point is this Aug. 21 analysis of the recent court ruling on the… Read moreRuling in surveillance scandal headed for overturn?
We don’t know when lefties started cheering on CIA agents. But it’s no weirder than the White House blowing their cover. We applaud Valerie Plame for not going along with the journalist-bashing that has infected right and left alike in… Read morePlame sues Cheney —not journalists
French hypocrisy exposed at last! It seems all the official pomposity and condescension about the barabric American torture state was merely for political show. We are shocked, shocked! From the New York Times, July 6: PARIS, July 5 — A… Read moreFrance interrogated Gitmo detainees
How interesting. The Supremes rule that Congress did not give Bush a “blank check” to tear up the Geneva Conventions when it voted to approve military action after 9-11. Now, Bush uses precisely the same argument to justify the program… Read moreSupreme Court strikes down Gitmo tribunals
Greg Palast risks jeopardizing his wild popularity among the leftoid legions by raining on their increasingly beloved “Jewish Conspiracy” theory. Bashing this bosh is long overdue, but we sure wish Palast had done a better job of it. His arguments… Read moreGreg Palast: “Did the Jews do it?”
From The New Standard, June 22: Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of terrorism-related charges, has asked a federal court to compel the federal government to disclose whether the National Security Agency’s illegal warrantless domestic-spying program helped the prosecution in its… Read moreDid NSA spy on Lynne Stewart?
Reporters Without Borders is protesting the Pentagon’s move to ban journalists from Guantanamo Bay, an ostensibly temporary measure. (Washington Post, June 15) The move comes on the heel of the suicide of three detainees at the prison camp, who the… Read moreGitmo: reporters banned, questions raised in wake of suicides
