That according to Tom Ridge The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture. “There’s just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture,” Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview with the Associated Press. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day […]
The AP just reported that Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is threatning to filibuster any attempts by the Democrats to block Bush’s escalation plan. This is ironic, considering what McConnell was saying in his majority days of the filibuster: Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said yesterday that Republicans have enough votes to invoke the “nuclear option” […]
It was just a couple months ago that we learned the Bush White House was illegally paying someone to write and publish “puff pieces” promoting the administrations’ education agenda. Today we learn that the military has taken the same course of action in Iraq. WASHINGTON  As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the […]