A FOIA request from the ACLU has uncovered some really disturbing facts of inmate deaths inside our immigration jails: As one man lay dying of head injuries suffered in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2007, for example, a spokesman for the federal agency told a reporter that he could learn nothing about the case […]
We have yet another example of George Bush’s disregard for the laws of this country: Opening a new front in the Bush administration’s battle to keep its records confidential, the Justice Department is contending that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The department’s argument is in […]
The plans to invade Iraq, written by Tommy Franks in 2002, shed light on the thinking within the military and administration prior to the invasion. The information was released concurrent to an FOIA act and George Washington University has them online. Most interesting is the following chart, which showed predictions of our troop levels dropping […]
Two years later and we are still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened at Abu Gharib and who all was actually involved. Now the story is really gaining momentum: A U.S. congressional panel has ordered U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s […]