Last night in an 11th hour move, the Pentagon blocked a court order to turn over videos and pictures of the Abu Gharib abuse scandal. Editor and Publisher has an article that sheds light into why this was done. It was not to obstruct justice, but rather to prevent what could become a major up […]
The article published in Newsweek on May 9th regarding mishandling of the Quran by soldiers in Guantanamo Bay detention center sparked riots in the Muslim world that lead to numerous deaths and days of unrest. After pressure from the Pentagon, Newsweek retracted this article, stating their source was not credible. Now in the late evening […]
Phillip Carter and Owen West of Slate reported a story on Thursday regarding a new directive issued by the Army. This new directive, now takes the process of dealing with certain “separation”, or discharging issues, from the battalion commander, and puts it in the hands of a special court marshal, there by delaying the process. […]
An interesting post was just published on crooksandliars.com comparing how we know dismiss Amnesty international reports, compared to two years ago when they were part of the gospel used in order to wage an attack on Saddam Hussein. On March 27, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld had this to say in a Pentagon press conference: Anyone who […]