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Cheney’s Legal Hit Man
Jul 1, 2006 He's been described as "the most powerful person you've never heard of," and "Cheney's Cheney." He's David Addington, the vice president's chief of staff, and he's behind the legal arguments to support presidential-sanctioned torture, the attempt to discredit Joe Wilson, and the bogus Niger uranium story. The New Yorker has a must-read profile.George Bush, Alcoholic – Part 5
Jul 1, 2006 Yahoo! health columnist Patrick Moore wraps up his five-part series on George Bush's untreated alcoholism with a zinger: "President Bush cannot be of service to his country until he looks inward and surrenders to the fact that he is an alcoholic, with all the challenges the disease of alcoholism carries with it."
Truthdigger of the Week: John Paul Stevens
Jul 1, 2006 Truthdig salutes the 86-year-old Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which struck down the military tribunals Bush set up to try Guantanamo detainees. But more important, this decision, in the words of a Yale law professor, "effectively undermines the Administration's strongest claims about Presidential power," and may constitute the legal framework necessary to halt the more egregious of Bush's civil liberties-infringing programs -- like warrantless wiretapping and holding terrorism suspects without trial.
Andy Borowitz: Bush Opposes Marriage Between a Man and a Flag
Jul 1, 2006 The political satirist reports on the president's discovery of what could be the greatest wedge issue of the 2006 midterm elections.
Richard Clarke: How Gullible Does Bush Take Americans to Be?
Jul 1, 2006 The president's former counter-terrorism chief says the White House wants "the public to believe that it had not already occurred to every terrorist on the planet that his telephone was probably monitored and his international bank transfers subject to scrutiny."
Pentagon Shows Stunning Naivete in Video Game Flap
Jun 30, 2006 Supposed Internet experts, working off $7 million in public money, reported to the Pentagon and to Congress that terrorists are retooling American video games for use as recruitment tools Problem is, it wasn't the terrorists who did the retooling; it was American fans--something a 10-year-old could have discovered by using Google(more) .
Behind the Scenes at Gitmo
Jun 30, 2006 ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it. The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as "custodial interviews." The room pictured above--which has a plush lazy chair--is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms. This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get.
Gritty Anti-Meth Ads Raise Eyebrows
Jun 30, 2006 A huge billboard bearing harsh public service ads like these greet motorists entering Montana. They're part of a massive anti-meth campaign funded by software billionaire Thomas Siebel to combat a drug that's ravaging the country's rural and gay communities (and is making headway elsewhere).Zarqawi Buried in Unmarked Location
Jun 30, 2006 Iraq's national security advisor won't publicly disclose the burial place of the slain terrorist leader. A man claiming to be Bin Laden said in a new tape that "What scares you after the death of Zarqawi is your knowledge that, left alone, Muslims will give Zarqawi a huge funeral, which shows the sympathy of the Muslims with their sons of holy warriors."Government Using ‘Brain Scans’ on Terrorists?
Jun 30, 2006 The ACLU has filed Freedom of Information Act requests to get details on the possible use of "brain scanning" technology during terrorist interrogations by the U.S. government.USA Today Backs Off Phone Records Story
Jun 30, 2006 The newspaper originally reported that AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon have been providing phone call data to the NSA. But now USA Today says it can't confirm that either BellSouth or Verizon provided the data. (AT&T definitely appears to have done so.)Death Toll Rises to 90 After Mexico Earthquake
Sep 11, 2017 President Enrique Pena Nieto says a third of the homes in the city of Juchitan are uninhabitable.