From the New York Law Journal, Oct. 17: Veteran defense attorney Lynne Stewart cried tears of relief yesterday as a federal judge ordered her to serve a dramatically lower sentence than prosecutors had requested for her conviction on providing material… Read moreLynne Stewart gets 28 months, remains free pending appeal
This man’s treatment, and the defense’s arguments, constitute another step in the legitimization of torture, and the dumbing-down of the word’s definition. But at least the judiciary is showing a semblance of backbone here. From the New York Times, Oct…. Read moreFeds defend torture before 2nd Circuit
As Lynne Stewart awaits sentencing, the New York Times Sept. 29 portrayed her as uncharacteristically contrite… Lawyer in Terror Case Apologizes for Violating Special Prison Rules Lynne F. Stewart, the once brashly defiant radical defense lawyer who was convicted in… Read moreLynne Stewart denied “need to know” on warrantless surveillance
Our September issue featured stories on the question of 9-11 “conspiracy theory,” including a skeptical look at the conspiracy industry and the so-called “9-11 skeptics” by WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg. The September Exit Poll was: “OK, did Bush do… Read more9-11 conspiracy theory: our readers write
Don’t you just love it when the government contradicts itself? The White House responds to the National Intelligence Estimate report finding the Iraq war is fueling global terrorism. From the LA Times, Sept. 25: White House: Terrorism not linked to… Read moreWhite House denies Iraq link to terror escalation
What’s really terrifying about Bush’s bid for Congress to address the controversy around torture and detainment is that, if lawmakers take the bait, there will cease to be a torture scandal and torture will be normalized. We are approaching a… Read moreBush: ditch Geneva Conventions, habeas corpus
On a visit to his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI weighed in Sept. 12 before an audience at Regensburg University, where he once taught, on the contentious issue of rapport between Islam and the West. Calling for a “genuine dialogue… Read morePope disses Islam, invokes Byzantine emperor who fought Turks
Unable to keep himself from milking 9-11 for all it’s worth, Bush is treading, once again, into the realm of Doublethink. At his most recent in a spate of 9-11-themed speeches, in Atlanta Sept. 7, he said: “Many Americans look… Read more“America safer”: Bush contradicts State Department
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
