Red Cross: Highest US Officials Approved War Crimes
According to an article by Scott Shane in today's New York Times, a new book by New Yorker counterterrorism reporter Jane Mayer contains references to a secret report by the Red Cross that warned that...
View ArticleArmy Releases Strong Obama Photo with Petraeus
Those of us who remember photos of Dukakis in a tank realize the power of images to help or hinder a candidate's message.Today, the U.S. Army released an image of Barack Obama and top U.S. military...
View ArticleArmy Releases Powerful Photo of Obama in Iraq
I posted a diary on this topic last night, but because the image is such a powerful one, I am posting again this morning to hopefully propagate it to a wider audience.See below for the Photo released...
View ArticleThe Danger of the Mile-High Milestone
Over the past two weeks many on this site and in the traditional media expressed deep concerns about the chosen venue for the finale of the Democratic convention.The concerns were multi-fold, but...
View ArticleCongratulations, You Own It Now
Is the economy tanking, or what? Are you wondering why the Stock Market is up 7 percent in the past two days? Do you get the feeling something fishy is going on?
View ArticleMcCain, Palin Afraid to Face Tough Questions
The McCain campaign has successfully cloistered Palin away from the Press, and has enforced strict silence policy about the mess Palin has left in the Alaska TrooperGate Scandal.And now the McCain...
View ArticleBIG GAMBLE: Palin Out, Romney In
Call me crazy, but the sum total of McCain's Craziness this past week may be a harbinger of a BIG SHAKEUP in the GOP ticket. Follow me below the fold:
View ArticleBreaking: Mukasey Appoints Special Prosecutor
Many of us who followed the US Attorney Purge Scandal will be surprised and excited by this news: Statement by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on the Report of an Investigation into the Removal of...
View ArticleVote Suppression: WVWV Trying to Register My Cat
The postmark deadline for voter registration in Illinois is 4 days away. Yesterday, I opened my mail to find a "voter registration document" sent by the "Voter Participation Center", a project of...
View ArticleCAGING 2008: Vote Suppression Continues
TPM Muckraker posts on GOP challenges to 6000 likely-democratic voters in Montana.They are now challenging 6000 voters in 6 Democratic-leaning counties. This is surely just the beginning of probably a...
View ArticleUh-Oh. California Out of Cash
The Financial Crisis is having an impact on at least one major state government.....Schwarzenegger has now written to Treasury Secretary Paulson to let him know that due to the credit crunch,...
View ArticlePalin Evaded Taxes: Updated
There is a new controversy brewing:According to Tax experts, Palin failed to report $43,000 that the State of Alaska paid the Governor in 2006 and 2007 as an "allowance" for her husband and children’s...
View ArticlePray for the Secret Service
The men and women of the United States Secret Service are tasked with the critical mission of risking their lives to keep our Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates safe. By obvious measures,...
View ArticleMcCain Morphing into Bob Dole
I am not sure if there are any other old-timers out there who have noticed this phenomenon, but John McCain is starting to resemble another failed GOP presidential contender, Bob Dole.And this is a...
View ArticleSHAZAM! Obama Camp Standing Tall Against GOP Tricks
Each day passes with Obama's lead seeming more solid. And each day we see new desperation gimmicks from the McCain campaign.We know that a significant part of GOP electoral manipulation involves voter...
View ArticleIt's Obvious Now: They are So Screwed
Is that all you got? Is that the best you can do? ACORN?Coming down to the wire in the election, with most Americans concerned about their retirement savings, their jobs, and their family's financial...
View ArticleGOP using FBI to go after ACORN
Remember the US Attorney Scandal?Remember Todd Graves getting replaced by Brad Schlozman in Missouri when Graves failed to aggressively prosecute ACORN in 2006?Remember Attorney General Gonzales...
View ArticleUPDATE 3: Obama Goes after GOP on Vote Fraud Fraud
Per Josh Marshall:The General Counsel of the Obama campaign is currently holding a media conference call to "Announce Major Action Taken Today To Address Illegal Conduct and Improprieties in the Sham...
View ArticleStealing Obama Votes in Indiana: Court Ruling Today
The Republicans are going to do EVERYTHING they can to make sure that as few people as possible are able to cast ballots for the November 4 election. Vote suppression is simply part of the plan. We...
View ArticleI Got Called Up Last Night
Last night after the kids were in bed and I was sitting at the table paying bills, I got the call I had been anxiously expecting. I was called to duty on behalf of our democracy.
View ArticleFEC: Palin's Makeup Stylist Paid More than top McCain Advisers
Anyone ever here the old adage "you get what you pay for"?Well surprise, surprise, the McCain campaign is probably learning the meaning of that one right now.... The McCain Campaign's highest paid...
View ArticleArizona? OBAMA R N UR BASE
I suppose it would be really stupid of me to get giddy about an upcoming Obama victory. I have supported every Democratic running for President since Dukakis in 1988. I am not used to my candidate...
View ArticleObama Playing for Mandate
This is my last Diary before I get on a plane this morning to fly to a battleground state to serve in The Obama Campaign's Voter Protection Program.I am proud to serve and help ensure everyone can...
View ArticleComey Testimony Provoked FISA Battle
Today's Wall Street Journal interview with disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales correctly diagnoses one of the biggest blows that precipitated his demise: The testimony of James Comey in...
View ArticleDistrict Court Screws Bush on FISA
The FISA revision passed last year gave immunity to those who participated in illegal wiretapping. But the question remains as to whether it is constitutional to deny recourse to those who suffered...
View ArticleUPDATE- Science is Good. Help Make it Better.
America needs your help this morning.Under the Bush Administration, science research funding in our country dropped or remained stagnant. This had a crushing effect on science research, and...
View ArticleTraitorous GOP "Shorting" America
The country is in a recession, bordering on a depression. Americans are desperate for change. President Obama has significant majorities in both houses of congress. As such, Obama's stimulus package...
View ArticleWhat's The Argument Against Giving Everybody $1M + PONY
I am not one to think too much about money I don't have, but I gotta say that slinkerwink's current reclist diary got me thinking....There is surely a big facebook movement to forgive student loan debt...
View ArticleBreaking: Court Ruling Gets Closer to Exposing Bush Crimes
This will be big news to those of you following the al-Haramain trial.In a nutshell, The Obama Administration has followed the Bush Administration lead to cover up illegal wiretapping, arguing that...
View ArticleHow al-Haramain Could Destroy the FISA Court
This diary is an attempt to explain why the Bush administration, and now Obama administration may be fighting so hard against a lawsuit filed by al-Haramain, an Islamic charity that was the subject of...
View ArticleGooey Irony: Bush Appointed War Criminal to War Crimes Panel
This one is rich.Today's NY Times reports that in 2004, Bush appointed former OLC lawyer John Yoo to a government board charged with releasing historical Nazi and Japanese war crimes records.His...
View ArticleJane Harman Denied Wiretap Shenanigans on DKos!
So now we have the new story outlining how Jane Harman got herself compromised by making a quid pro quo with an Israeli agent, and it turns out the Bush Administration may have blackmailed her into...
View ArticleJane Harman is the Horsehead in the Bed
Yesterday, the Blogosphere erupted with Jeff Stein's CQ article suggesting that Jane Harman may have interfered in the prosecution of alleged Israeli spies in exchange for a committee chairmanship in...
View ArticleThey Added a Tracheotomy Kit to the Torture Chamber
Reading the OLC memos justifying "enhanced interrogation techniques" has revealed a frightening picture of our Government practicing torture. Below I focus on three of the OLC memos from the...
View ArticleThe CIA Almost Killed Both Zubaydah and al-Nashiri
We have recently learned that although waterboarding was initially described as "harmless" by the CIA, between 2002 and 2005 the CIA changed their waterboarding rules to require a medical doctor and a...
View ArticleOlbermann Reports on Tracheotomy Kits for Waterboarding
Last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann spent 7 minutes elaborating on a concept first REPORTED here at Daily Kos in a RecList diary last Friday- Although Olbermann did not cite the diary, it was...
View ArticleDOJ Report: Torture Lawyers to Walk
After an "investigation" by the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility, the legal architects of US Government sponsored torture during the Bush Administration will not be held accountable for their...
View ArticleCheney Taunting His Way to Independent Prosecutor
It is becoming increasingly clear that Dick Cheney, John Yoo and the CIA are aggressively committed to defending their record on torture. Cheney and Yoo are unrepentant. Yoo is busy writing...
View ArticleToday's Historic Torture Hearing
Today marks the first Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on harsh interrogation techniques since the release of the "Torture Memos", the OLC documents that outlined the guidelines for harsh...
View ArticleCIA Doctors Were Replaced with Contractors for Torture
As a physician, I have been perplexed to learn that medical personnel were involved in the CIA interrogation program. Physicians are bound by a 2500-year old oath not to do harm. This central tenet...
View ArticleDon't Fall for GOP Meme on Pelosi
Cheney and factions within the CIA are invested in a campaign to smear Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats in order to detract from their role in DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, and HIDING the...
View ArticleWhere is the CIA's "Specially Designed" Water Torture Rack?
As a physician, I have been shocked by the concept of physician participation in the torture policies of the Bush Administration. I have previously written about medical personnel involvement in...
View ArticleThe Poignant Combination of Waterboarding and Crucifixion
On Friday, June 18, the CIA Inspector General's report from May 2004 will be released, hopefully in an unredacted form. This report is anticipated to reveal the consequences of harsh detainee...
View ArticleTreating Abu Zubaydah's Seizures with Haldol
Yesterday, I wrote a diary detailing evidence that accused terrorist Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (al-Nashiri) may have suffered a specific physical injury due to combinations of enhanced interrogation...
View ArticleTorture Autopsy Reveals Death by Enhanced Interrogation
Assuming there is not a third delay, the CIA Inspector General's review of the CIA's Interrogation Program under George Bush will be released tomorrow. Much has been written about waterboarding,...
View ArticleBreaking: CIA IG Report Delayed Again
Not surprising, but the declassification and release of the 2004 CIA inspector General's report has been delayed for the third time.
View ArticleCIA OIG Whitewash: Strangulation= "Pressure Points"
Today's release of the CIA Inspector General's report on the Bush Administration's "enhanced interrogation program" tells us that CIA personnel carried out mock executions and threatened detainees that...
View ArticleCIA IG REPORT: Murder of Habibullah Redacted
The CIA Office of Inspector General tells us that CIA personnel carried out mock executions and threatened detainees that their children would be killed and mothers sexually assaulted. It also...
View ArticleAG Holder to GOP Cowards: Grow a Pair
Fearmongering is a tried and true tactic of the GOP for getting people to bow to their plans. In the wake of 9/11 they frightened a nation into discarding civil liberties, and they invoked pretend...
View ArticleBraking: Put the Prius in Neutral
I imagine there are more than one other Toyota Prius drivers in Kos-land, and if you are like me, you are a concerned about the possibility that you may some day find yourself riding a missile with a...
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