Spain has joined Italy in launching an investigation of claims the CIA is operating a “rendition fleet” to transfer detainees to facilities in a secret gulag maintained in various host countries. From the AP, Nov. 15: MADRID, Spain — The… Read moreSpain probes CIA “rendition” claims
The pending indictments in the Plame affair are providing interesting fodder for those intent on analyzing internal splits within the ruling elites. OK, all you domestic Kremlinologists out there—who is really runnning the show at the White House? Has Dubya… Read moreWho’s in charge?
On Oct. 26, John D. Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence, released a detailed National Intelligence Strategy for coordinating the nation’s 15 spy agencies. It calls for building up the ranks of intelligence operatives and analysts and delineates new… Read moreNegroponte gives CIA new powers; Jew-haters make hay
U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl in New York Oct. 25 upheld activist attorney Lynne Stewart’s conviction on terrorist conspiracy charges, finding that allegations by her lawyers were unfounded that a juror on the case feared for her life and… Read moreNo retrial for Lynne Stewart
The persistently irritating John Tierney has done it again. In a typically smarmy column in the Oct. 25 New York Times, “And Your Point Is?”, he dismisses the Plame affair as a bunch of empty hot air, asserting that “no… Read moreThe Plame affair: denial in the New York Times
Condoleeza Rice spilled the beans in Congressional testimony: there really is (as we always suspected) a White House plan to redesign the Middle East! Capitol Hill liberals like Barbara Boxer squawk about the administration’s “unbelievable rewriting of history” in changing… Read moreRepublican reps: It’s “another world war”
Well, Judith Miller is out of jail, has testified before the grand jury, and wrote up a story on her own testimony for the New York Times. She even expresses some contrition, admitting to error, if not wilful collaboration with… Read moreJudith Miller: “I got it totally wrong”
In what has become a yearly ritual, activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) staged angry protests at the Columbus Day march in Denver, while the city’s Italian-Americans intransigently refused to “get it.” This from an AP account online at… Read moreColumbus Day culture wars …and the fascist connection
The Republican-controlled Senate voted Oct. 5 to impose restrictions on the treatment of terrorism suspects. Defying the White House, senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment to prohibit the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” against anyone… Read moreSenate defies Bush on torture
Vice President Dick Cheney said that the US must be prepared to fight the War on Terrorism for decades. Speaking to US military personnel at the Association of the US Army in Washington DC, he said that the only way… Read moreCheney: “decades of war”
From the Sept. 27 NY Times, reprinted in the International Herald Tribune: A Spanish court on Monday convicted a Syrian man of conspiring to commit the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, and found 17 other men guilty… Read moreSpain convicts 9-11 suspect, rebukes US
British MP George Galloway, current darling of the left for his testimony against the Iraq war before the US Senate earlier this year and for slaying such mediocre dragons as Christopher Hitchens, reveals a disturbing side in a Sept. 9… Read moreGeorge Galloway: blame the Jews
