Archive for January, 2010

Video: 3-city action to impeach ‘Torture Judge’ Bybee – Examiner.com

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Video: 3-city action to impeach 'Torture Judge' Bybee
Examiner.com
As assistant attorney general in President George W. Bush's Justice Department, he was responsible for the notorious torture memos that enabled the excesses
Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconducttruthout

all 12 news articles »

More: continued here

Iraq inquiry – as it happened (Guardian Unlimited)

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

• Blair says he has no regrets about Iraq war • Denies doing a secret deal with Bush at Crawford • Says Saddam in 2010 may have been even greater threat • Press the PLAY button below to start live video stream 8.23am: Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry today is one of the most eagerly-awaited political events of the early, possibly one of the most eagerly-awaited events of the last 10 …

More: continued here

Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconduct – truthout

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconduct
truthout
its officers for torture, Yoo met at the White House with David Addington, Dick Cheney's chief counsel, and then–White House counsel Alberto Gonzales.

and more »

More: continued here

Remember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq? – Common Dreams (press release)

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Common Dreams (press release)
Remember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq?
Common Dreams (press release)
Still, one could hardly imagine George Bush and Dick Cheney being hauled before an investigative body and forced, under oath, to testify about what they did

and more »

More: continued here

Blair says Saddam had to go – Dallas Morning News

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Globe and Mail
Blair says Saddam had to go
Dallas Morning News
Blair rejected accusations that he and President George W. Bush had determined between them to go to war months before the invasion and that he had
Tony Blair Forced to Testify on War CrimesAmerican Chronicle
Protesters call for trial of Blair over Iraq warPress TV
The British Iraq Inquiry Is Ours TooHuffington Post (blog)
Telegraph.co.uk -TwoCircles.net -CNN
all 1,761 news articles »

More: continued here

What Is it you said, Mr. President? – Online Journal

Friday, January 29th, 2010
What Is it you said, Mr. President?
Online Journal
Specifically, Cheney and Bush are still not under investigation for possible war crimes (and other constitutional violations) because Obama (who took

and more »

More: continued here

The debate over KSM trial – msnbc.com

Friday, January 29th, 2010
The debate over KSM trial
msnbc.com
Obie OK's the trials for NYC in discussion with Holder. The real aim of the trials is by proxy to put Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld on trial for "war crimes" in

and more »

More: continued here

9/11 Terrorists: Try ‘Em In Iraq – FITSNews

Friday, January 29th, 2010

FITSNews
9/11 Terrorists: Try 'Em In Iraq
FITSNews
Why didn't George Bush catch Osama anyway? I thought he was supposed to be a real man and a hero on the war on terror. All he and Cheney did was invade

and more »

More: continued here

Blair Iraq war inquiry: Calculus of risk on WMD changed after 9/11 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Testifying in front of a special inquiry into the Iraq war, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he had told President George W. Bush that they had to deal with the WMD threat even if it meant a regime change in Iraq. Blair denied any secret deals.

More: continued here

Blair: No secret deal with Bush in Iraq War (New York Post)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore. The former British Prime Minister said that before Sept. 11…

More: continued here