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Aug

Hoover, the FBI, and Aafia Siddiqui

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Categories: Bush Lies, Children, Female Detainee, Ghost, Grey Lady of Bagram, Lies and War Crimes of the US Government and Lies of the U.S. Administration

By Yvonne Ridley, Press TV

Aafia Siddiqui

The FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J. Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary.

Hoover, probably the most powerful men in America some say even more powerful then the presidents he served under, was the originator of dirty tricks campaign and kept a lot of dirt on other people in his files.

The only players who were immune to Hoover’s secret files were those who had secrets of their own about his personal life - namely, the Mafia. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover’s sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America.

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Aug

The bizarre trial of bin Laden’s bodyguard

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Categories: Bush Lies, Kangaroo Kourt, Salim Hamdan, USA, human rights and travesty of justice

The “capture videos” the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA — and even a surreal viewing of “The Dark Knight” here in Guantánamo.

Salon Editor’s note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been reporting on U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo for Salon.

By Julia Hall

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Given all the information about abusive interrogations that has made its way out of Guantánamo, the “surprises” over the past week in Salim Hamdan’s war-crimes trial — the first military commission convened by the U.S. government since Nuremberg — weren’t exactly earth-shattering. But that didn’t stop the defense, dubbed Team Hamdan, from doing what it could here to surprise the six-member jury of military officers (plus one sub) tasked with determining Hamdan’s guilt or innocence.

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Jul

US-produced Al-Qaida movie played at Gitmo trial

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Categories: Bush Lies, Guantanamo and Kangaroo Kourt

..Would this fly in a real court? NO! They will stop at nothing to prosecute these men in a Kangaroo Kourt!

By MIKE MELIA

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A Pentagon-produced movie about al-Qaida had its premiere Monday at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial — shown to an audience of military jurors hearing evidence against a former driver for Osama bin Laden.

“The Al-Qaida Plan,” is a 90-minute documentary that traces the origins and goals of the terrorist group, highlighting such milestones as the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Jul

Afghan Journalists’ “Shocking” Situation Condemned

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Categories: Afghanistan, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Treatment Act, Journalist and Mohammad Jawed

..If you read nothing else, read this..

Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Ariana TV

[Presenter] National and foreign organizations for protection of journalists have described the condition of journalists in Afghanistan as shocking. They also demanded an unconditional release of Afghan journalist Jawid Ahmad, who is currently being detained in the US Bagram prison. Mariam Asi reports:

[Correspondent] Addressing a press conference held in Kabul, officials from these organizations say Jawid Ahmad, an Afghan journalist, is innocent and that the US forces have imprisoned him illegally. They say the US troops imprison innocent people in Bagram and Guantanamo detention centres on various charges.

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Jul

SECOND GUANTANAMO

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Categories: Bush Lies, Close Guantanamo, Detainee and Detainee Abuse

KABUL: The US plans to build a vast ’second Guantanamo’ were condemned yesterday. Human rights lawyers said they will attack America’s use of its main Afghan base in Bagram as a legal black hole, as a place “where no laws apply”.

Rights lawyers also accused Washington of targeting journalists to cover up its practices in Afghanistan and Iraq. “I think it is very clear that the reason the US chose to build it inside the base is that they did not like the independent decisions that would have come out of the Afghan judiciary,” said lawyer Barbara J Olshansky.

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Jul

The Wedding Crashers

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Categories: Bush Lies

http://www.motherjones.com

Commentary: Collateral ceremonial damage: a short, till-death-do-us-part history of Bush’s wars.
By Tom Engelhardt
July 15, 2008

[Introduction:We live in a media world with a remarkably short memory, which means that stories with a past go missing in action all the time. Witness the one that follows. To the extent my aging brain is able, TomDispatch tries to keep the past in mind and, when it comes to the recent past, not to forget the remarkable record of the Bush administration in its various wars. This website aims to rescue at least a few of the missing stories of our age, before they slip through the cracks forever. The new book, The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire, is, I think, a striking record of this site's recovery efforts over the last years. I hope those of you who haven't yet gotten yourselves a copy will consider doing so. Think of it as a gesture of moral support for a site in the memory repo business. Tom Engelhardt]

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Jul

Secret document casts doubt on Khadr’s guilt (repost)

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Categories: Bush Lies and Omar Khadr

..Just a reminder - remember that there was testimony that Omar didn’t even throw the grenade - yet most news agencies are saying he “threw the grenade” leaving out the important word, “allegedly”..

Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, February 05, 2008

U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO, Cuba — A secret document accidentally released by the U.S. military Monday raises questions about whether someone other than Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr could have thrown a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.

Comprising a U.S. investigator’s report of his interview with the operative who wounded Khadr, the document reveals a second alleged al-Qaeda fighter was both alive and still fighting about the time the grenade was thrown.

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Jul

We Are Through the Looking Glass: Guantánamo as Alice in Wonderland

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Categories: Andy Worthington, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Kangaroo Kourt, Lies of the U.S. Administration and Parhat

Andy Worthngton

The ruling in Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: “the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true.”

Some of us have known for years that the U.S. administration’s basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the “War on Terror” has more to do with a fantasy world in which nonsense masquerades as truth, logic is skewed, and nothing that is uttered remotely resembles evidence that would stand up in a court of law.

At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs). Introduced in summer 2004, in a deliberate snub to the Supreme Court, which had just ruled that, contrary to the administration’s assertions, Guantánamo was run by the U.S. and not by Cuba, and that the prisoners had the right to know why they were being held (under the “Great Writ” of habeas corpus, inherited from the British, and designed to prevent executive tyranny), the CSRTs were pale mockeries of the Geneva Conventions’ Article 5 battlefield tribunals, which were intended to separate soldiers from civilians swept up by accident in the heat of battle.

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Jul

Happy Birthday U.S.A.!

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Categories: Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Torture, USA, Yoo Memo and waterboarding

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, masters of evil John Yoo and David Addington pop back up, like Jason or a platter of undercooked pork, to tell the U.S. Congress how much they’d really like to take that water and pour it over your blindfolded and Saran-wrapped face.

Happy Birthday, U.S.A.!

Now, I know people who know John Yoo – that’s right, suckas! Your editrix is exactly one degree of separation from the man who wrote the memo legalizing torture for BushCo by way of the unitary executive theory – and I’ve been told “not as stupid as he pretends to be” would be a reckless understatement. In fact, they say, though he’s incredibly unprepossessing and innocuous-seeming, he’s actually just as smart as you’d expect a top lawyer for the U.S. making torture law would be. But did you see his Congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week? Could he have pretended to be any stupider? I swear, if you’d stuck a Coors in his hand and somehow made him handsome, he could have been any of the big dumb hunks of alcoholic electrician man I so like to date.

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Jun

Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abu Ghraib, Abuse, Afghanistan, Black Site, Bush Lies, Detainee Abuse, Guantanamo and Iraq

By Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Newspapers | http://www.bostonherald.com

WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn’t the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.

It was largely the work of five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers who, following the orders of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, reinterpreted or tossed out the U.S. and international laws that govern the treatment of prisoners in wartime, according to former U.S. defense and Bush administration officials.

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Jun

Abu Ghraib? Doesn’t Ring a Bell.

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abu Ghraib, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, DoD and Torture

By Dana Milbank

If ever there was a case that cried out for enhanced interrogation techniques, it was yesterday’s Senate appearance by the Pentagon’s former top lawyer.

William “Jim” Haynes II, the man who blessed the use of dogs, hoods and nudity to pry information out of recalcitrant detainees, proved to be a model of evasion himself as he resisted all attempts at inquiry by the Armed Services Committee.

Did he ask a subordinate to get information about harsh questioning techniques?

“My memory is not perfect.”

Did he see a memo about the effects of these techniques?

“I don’t specifically remember when I saw this.”

Did he remember doing something with the information he got?

“I don’t remember doing something with this information.”

When did he discuss these methods with other Bush administration officials?

“I don’t know precisely when, and I cannot discuss it further without getting into classified information.”

Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) had had enough. “You say you don’t remember it any more clearly than what you’ve said,” he pointed out. “Therefore, going into classified session isn’t going to give us any more information than what you’ve said, which is you had conversations but your memory is bad.”

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Jun

We are led by war criminals, says general

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Categories: Abu Ghraib, Abuse, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse and Torture

By Jay Bookman

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba led the military’s investigation into the abuse at Abu Ghraib, and he did so honestly and forthrightly. As reward for doing his job well, he was forced to retire from the service he loved.

The two-star general has now written a forward to a report on widespread, systematic, officially sanctioned torture by U.S. soldiers and civilians. His conclusion is stunning:

“This report tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individuals’ lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors….

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Jun

Military Told Media and Family that it was ‘Friendly Fire’ — but it was Murder

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Categories: Bush Lies and DoD

Greg Mitchell

Editor & Publisher

New York - For five years now, E&P has been chronicling the disturbing number of “noncombat” deaths in Iraq, often suicides, which usually come to light only due to the diligence of local newspapers. As part of that effort, last August I briefly described yet another case, involving a 20-year-old Texas woman named Kamisha Block, who apparently was much loved in her Vidor hometown. It was said to be death by “friendly fire,” which officially is fairly rare in Iraq, so I kept an eye on it for days, in case of an update.

Many more nonhostile deaths arrived, and so I forgot about Kamisha. Today, a reader sent me a link to a report on Vidor, Texas, TV station, which in turn led me to a news article in yesterday’s Beaumont Enterprise.

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Jun

US military deny that new prison is planned as ‘Guantanamo Two’

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Categories: Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse and Guantanamo

Afghan-US relations hit by ‘climate of distrust’From Hafizullah Gardesh and Jean MacKenzie in Kabul

A US military spokeswoman has dismissed suggestions that a new prison planned for Afghanistan is intended to receive prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the detention centre in Cuba that is facing increasing criticism in America.

“This is not going to be Guantanamo Two,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Rumi Nielson-Green, spokeswoman for Combined Joint Task Force 101 based at Bagram Airfield, north of the Afghan capital Kabul. “That is absolutely false.”

Nielsen-Green also rejected reports by Afghan and US human rights groups that children as young as nine were being held at the existing detention facility. “That is absolutely false. We have no children at Bagram,” she said.

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Jun

Government Asks to Revise Guantanamo Evidence

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Categories: Bush Lies and habeas corpus

WHAT? Re-write evidence? This is a legal procedure, isn’t it? Oh, how silly of me. Of course this isn’t a legal matter anymore than the travesty that was Dr. Al-Arian’s trial was a legal matter. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is still in prison but - his sentence ended on April 11!

by Jackie Northam and Scott Simon

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Weekend Edition Saturday, June 21, 2008 · Defense lawyers for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say the Bush administration wants to rewrite some of the evidence against the detainees. The administration’s request came up during a closed-door meeting this week with judges, defense attorneys and government lawyers. The meeting was to discuss logistics following a Supreme Court decision that Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detention in federal court.

Jun

The “Captured on the Battlefield” Myth

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Categories: Boumediene v. Bush Decision, Bush Lies and Detainee

$Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda\'s Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)$

Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda’s Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)

by Ed Brayton

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Boumediene ruling, we’ve heard a familiar lie from the Bush supporters. John Yoo, author of the infamous torture memos, delivers it here:

Until Boumediene, the Supreme Court had never allowed an alien who was captured fighting against the U.S. to use our courts to challenge his detention.

This is the great myth, that everyone in Guantanamo Bay was “captured on the battlefield” fighting against the United States (and never mind the inconsistency that if that was really true, they’d be POWs, not “enemy combatants” - a term invented out of thin air by the Bush administration - and therefore subject to the Geneva conventions). This simply is not true, as Glenn Greenwald points out, even about the plaintiff in this case:

And the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Lakhdar Boumediene, was a Bosnia citizen, living in Bosnia, who was arrested by Bosnian authorities at the request of the Bush administration, investigated, and determined by the Bosnian Supreme Court to be innocent. But upon his being released, U.S. forces inside Bosnia immediately seized him and shipped him to Guantanamo.

Captured on the battlefield indeed. And it’s not true of many others that we have captured and done horrible things to:

Many of the highest-profile “War on Terror” detainees who have been held for years with no charges have been similarly “captured,” while unarmed, in the most mundane of circumstances, far away from any “battlefield” — not “captured fighting against the U.S.,” as Yoo misleadingly put it today. U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, for instance, was detained at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri — the computer science graduate student at Bradley University, in the U.S. on a student visa — was arrested at his home in Peoria, Illinois where he lived with his wife and five children, charged with credit card fraud, only to then have his trial canceled at the last minute by George Bush, who declared him an “enemy combatant” and ordered him into military custody, where he remained for years with no charges.

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Jun

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes

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Categories: Abu Ghraib, Abuse, Bush Lies, Death in Custody, Detainee, Detainee Abuse and Torture

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

More on this story:

Story | Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross
Story | ‘If the detainee dies you’re doing it wrong’
Story | Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret
Story | U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
Story | Documents undercut Pentagon’s denial of routine abuse
Story | America’s prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
On the Web | McClatchy’s investigation of Guantanamo Bay detainees

The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who’s now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.

“After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Taguba wrote.

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Jun

Spies, Lies and the White House

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Categories: Bush and Bush Lies

Buried in a Senate report, new revelations about pre-war deception

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the “credibility” and “truthfulness” of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration’s claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
The statements of the detainee–a captured terrorist operative named Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi–were the principal basis for President Bush’s contention in a major pre-Iraq War speech that Saddam’s regime had “trained Al Qaeda members in bombmaking and poisons and deadly gases.” The speech was delivered in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, 2002, just as Congress was taking up the White House-backed resolution authorizing the president to invade Iraq.

But two months before Bush’s dramatic assertion, the CIA had raised serious doubts about whether al-Libi might be inventing some of what he was telling his interrogators, according to a 171-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-war intelligence released last week.

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Jun

All in the name of War on Terror

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Bush Lies, C.I.A., Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Mohamed al-Qahtani, Torture, USA, Use of doctors in torture, Yoo Memo and religious abuse

Fahad Faruqui

Detainee number 063, Mohamed Al-Kahtani, was one of the many hundreds housed in the Guantanamo (known as “Gitmo”) Bay detention camps who was subjected to 20 hours of interrogation on only four hours of sleep.

The Haynes memo, which approved controversial and harmful interrogation techniques, was signed by Donald Rumsfeld, the former United States Secretary of Defense, in early December of 2002. Entitled, “Counter-Resistance Techniques,” this was the memo that opened the door for partial drowning (called water boarding), along with humiliation, mental destabilization and other illegal methods of obtaining information from detainees.

Al-Kahtani, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, is the alleged 20th hijacker, but the U.S. Military Commissions dropped key 9/11 suspect charges against him on May 11 this year.

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Jun

U.S. Secret Prison Ships Hold Untold Number of Detainees

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abuse, Bush Lies, C.I.A., Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, USA and human rights

From: Invictus

The UK Guardian is reporting the United States is holding hundreds of detainees from its international wars on at least 17 “floating prisons” in different harbors around the world. The detainees are interrogated, and then many of them sent via extraordinary rendition to other countries for further interrogation and torture.

According to research carried out by Reprieve, the US may have used as many as 17 ships as “floating prisons” since 2001. Detainees are interrogated aboard the vessels and then rendered to other, often undisclosed, locations, it is claimed.

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Jun

Bush Oversimplified Iraq Intelligence, Report Says

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Go figure. I thought “Bush” and “Simple” were synonymous.

Vice President Dick Cheney listens as U.S. President George W. Bush makes a statement to the media during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Photographer: Roger L. Wollenberg/POOL via Bloomberg News.

(Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell exaggerated and oversimplified intelligence about the threat Iraq posed before the U.S. invaded the country in March 2003, according to a Senate report.

In their speeches, Bush and his deputies failed to note disagreements among intelligence agencies and made too much of links between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al- Qaeda, said the report, which the Senate Intelligence Committee released on its Web site this morning.

The report also found that some administration statements on Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, biological weapons capability jibed with U.S. intelligence at the time.

“The report documents significant instances in which the administration went beyond what the intelligence community knew or believed in making public claims,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, wrote in the report.

The report echoes earlier criticism from Congress that Bush and Powell distorted intelligence that showed Iraq was developing nuclear or chemical weapons, said Loch Johnson, a political science professor at the University of Georgia in Athens who has written extensively about intelligence.

“Here is some further evidence that Bush, Cheney, Powell and others said things to the public that were in direct contradiction with our best intelligence reports at the time,” he said in an e-mail.

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Jun

Ah…. History….

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“We Captured the Mastermind of the September 11th Attacks”
U.S. President George W. Bush Speaks at a

Live Prime Time Press Conference on March 6th, 2003 in the East Room of the White House

[with apologies to september11twistednews.com]

$Suave, Debonair Boosh, don\'t you feel safe?$

Suave, Debonair Boosh, don’t you feel safe?

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - The following are opening remarks from President Bush’s
March 6th, 2003 evening press conference.

PRESIDENT BUSH: “Good evening. I’m pleased to take your questions tonight, and to
discuss with [lie to] the American people the serious matters facing our country and the world. [little did the world know]

This has been an important week on two fronts on our

war against terror . First, thanks to the hard work of American and Pakistani officials [CIA & ISI], we captured the mastermind [what, no alleged again?] of the September the 11th attacks against our nation. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed conceived and planned the hijackings and directed the actions of the hijackers. [he also planned the Hurricane Katrina, and the Tsunami of 2004, Global Warming, the demise of what IQ Bush had.] We believe his capture will further disrupt the terror network and their planning for additional attacks. [other than the false flag ops that Boosh plans]

Second, we have arrived at an important moment in confronting the threat [we have met the enemy and he is us] posed to our nation and to peace by Saddam Hussein [who strikes fear in the heart of men.. wand women!] and his weapons of terror!

In New York tomorrow, the United Nations Security Council will receive [create] an update from the chief weapons inspector.

The world needs him to answer a single question: Has the Iraqi regime fully and unconditionally disarmed, as required by Resolution 1441, or has it not?” [Guess we know the answer to that now, huh?]

[How we all hope to see him as soon as possible!]

Jun

Report was wrong: Detainee didn’t get call from Sudan

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Categories: Abuse, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi and Kangaroo Kourt

By CAROL ROSENBERG

crosenberg@miamiherald.com

ART LIEN / POOL SKETCH ARTIST

This courtroom illustration shows Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi of Sudan appearing before an earlier, since aborted military commission Aug. 27, 2004 in Guantánamo, Cuba. By his recent appearance, his beard was gray.

A military spokesman erred last week by telling journalists that an alleged al Qaeda conspirator at Guantánamo received a Red Cross-assisted telephone call from home.

Ibrahim al Qosi of Sudan has not yet been able to talk to his relatives, said Navy Cmdr. Pauline Storum in an email clarification late Friday from the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Qosi, 47, had asked his military commissions judge on Thursday to help him call his brother in Sudan, to ask him to hire him a civilian lawyer. The judge told military lawyers to arrange the call, and report back by July 1.

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Jun

Release of footage showing Khadr interrogation sought

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Categories: Bush Lies and Omar Khadr

Video documentation of Canadian agents’ questioning has been kept secret for five years
COLIN FREEZE
Canadian intelligence agents were videotaped as they questioned a 16-year-old prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay, and a court battle is brewing to force disclosure of the footage.

A videotaped interrogation of Omar Khadr over three days, conducted seven months after he was shot and captured in Afghanistan, has been kept secret for five years. Yet efforts are under way to force government officials to release four DVDs containing the recordings that may yield insights into the secrets of the U. S. prison camp and one of Canada’s more ethically fraught investigations.
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May

Report: FBI Slow in Reporting Detainee Abuse

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abuse, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act and F.B.I.

By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer

FBI officials should have moved more quickly to sound alarms about abusive interrogation practices its agents witnessed in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by an agency watchdog released this morning.

The lengthy study by the Justice Department’s inspector general clears the FBI of engaging in coercive questioning of terrorism suspects, concluding that “the vast majority of FBI agents deployed in the military zones” adhered to bureau policies and balked at more aggressive tactics used by Defense Department and CIA employees and contractors.
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Archive for the 'Bush Lies' Category

Hoover, the FBI, and Aafia Siddiqui

The bizarre trial of bin Laden’s bodyguard

US-produced Al-Qaida movie played at Gitmo trial

Afghan Journalists’ “Shocking” Situation Condemned

SECOND GUANTANAMO

The Wedding Crashers

Secret document casts doubt on Khadr’s guilt (repost)

We Are Through the Looking Glass: Guantánamo as Alice in Wonderland

Happy Birthday U.S.A.!

Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret

Abu Ghraib? Doesn’t Ring a Bell.

We are led by war criminals, says general

Military Told Media and Family that it was ‘Friendly Fire’ — but it was Murder

US military deny that new prison is planned as ‘Guantanamo Two’

Government Asks to Revise Guantanamo Evidence

The “Captured on the Battlefield” Myth

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

Spies, Lies and the White House

All in the name of War on Terror

U.S. Secret Prison Ships Hold Untold Number of Detainees

Bush Oversimplified Iraq Intelligence, Report Says

Ah…. History….

Report was wrong: Detainee didn’t get call from Sudan

By CAROL ROSENBERG

crosenberg@miamiherald.com

Release of footage showing Khadr interrogation sought

Report: FBI Slow in Reporting Detainee Abuse

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