The ick factor has just reached a whole new level: Add this to list of bizarre and unusual campaign trail antics: at last week’s Tea Party Express rally in Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio welcomed Sarah Palin with a pair of pink underwear. “I just got done welcoming Sarah Palin to our County. Had […]
Joe Conason has a very enlightening piece up about Mike Huckabee and his addiction to letting criminals walk free. In the article Conason points out something very interesting, yet missed in this debate: Huckabee has proudly declared on many occasions that he disdains the separation of church and state, insisting that his strict Baptist piety […]
When will we see former President George W. Bush travel the world and successfully negotiate the release of prisoners in a foreign nation?
That’s how many times Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded in March of 2003. That’s more than six times a day. That date should have some kind of meaning – shouldn’t it? Oh yeah – the start of the Iraq war. I guess they were just getting the technique down for all the new prisoners they […]
What is camp 7? The AP has uncovered that: Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse so protected that its […]
Reverend Ted has been healed! One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is “completely heterosexual.” Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. […]
Today’s New York Times has a very interesting article that requires a thorough reading. It details how an American contractor was held in an American military prison in Iraq for more than 90 days without access to a lawyer. Furthermore, this person was wrongly jailed. He was an informant for the FBI into possible contractor […]
So I guess the Iraqis are now on the side of the Democrats when it comes to the problems in Iraq: THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war. The […]
Source: Yahoo News The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is to close and its prisoners housed elsewhere, according to US military sources. The US military are expected to close Abu Ghraib prison within three months. They plan to transfer some 4,500 prisoners to other jails in Iraq, a military spokesman said. The prison in […]
Aljazeera have published a report by Amnesty International that the use of torture by US Military trained security forces have increased. Is it not about time that some independant organization was commisioned to look into this and report once and for all on the ‘goings’ on in these jails. If the US have nothing to hide […]