Sure – we can fork out all this money: The U.S. government already has a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon isn’t satisfied, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It plans to spend $100 million of your tax dollars to build a huge new facility just down the hill. “This is very expensive for […]
The key issue of next week’s elections is Iraq and a hopeful start to oversight of the disaster Bush got us into. Now we find out that the administration gets rid of the only person who was conducting oversight in the war. Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq […]
Bush’s biggest problem is he lives in the past. He doesn’t realize this great new thing out there called the “internets” and exactly how powerful it is. Take for example when Bush tries to change his story and then lie about what he previously said: Oops. Well I am sure that hasn’t happened before. Oh […]
This should be required viewing and training for all DNC Strategists from here on out. This was awesome (h/t Christy) The Republicans want to try and put out the ethics problems involving Democrats, but the fact of the matter is there are only a handful. They can name 3 or 4 and we can respond […]
We are now reduced from being Americans to being a string of ones and zeros: The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to help screen people at borders and detect immigration fraud. As federal agencies delve into the […]
Here we go – reliving the year 2003 all over again: Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.S. State Department […]
Well it looks like the Pentagon has an excuse for spying on peace activists: The Pentagon said on Wednesday a review launched after revelations that it had collected data on U.S. peace activists found that roughly 260 entries in a classified database of possible terrorist threats should not have been kept there. But the review […]
Well imagine this, Bush says he is not “obligated” to follow the oversight provisions in the new Patriot Act: When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was […]
When it comes to either supporting our troops or Cheney’s retirement then Cheney’s retirement will always win: Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused “mass sickness or death,” an internal company report concluded. The report, […]
The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday. Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants […]