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Was Bob Graham Briefed About Torture?

Staff / Truthdig May 21, 2009 Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham says the CIA didn't brief him about the use of waterboarding on suspected terrorists, and he has the records in his personal notebooks to prove it, as he points out during a timely book tour stopover on Wednesday's "Colbert Report." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hannity and Ventura Step Into the Ring

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2009 Fox News gasbag Sean Hannity and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura tackle the state of our nation before and after Bush. Watch them finger-point, talk over each other and play the deficit blame game in their debate on Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain’s Mama Smacks Back

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2009 Last night, John McCain's 95-year-old mother Roberta appeared on "The Tonight Show" to talk political punditry Watch as she bashes Keith Olbermann and responds to Rush Limbaugh's call to kick her son out of the Grand Old Party “ He does not represent the Republican Party that I belong to," she said . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Spitzer: ‘Wall Street Failed This Nation’

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2009 Everyone's favorite client No. 9 is making the rounds of the cable news shows and is actually dropping some interesting takes on the economy and Wall Street regulation. Check out his two-part interview with Rachel Maddow. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Amy Goodman / Truthdig May 6, 2009 It was some garden party. Eighteen-thousand people packed into Madison Square Garden Sunday night to celebrate the first 90 years of Pete Seeger's life. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Gates: ‘Everybody Knows We Still Have the Big Stick’

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2009 Having moved from the Bush administration to Obama's camp, Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes stock of the White House's new occupant on Sunday's episode of "Fareed Zakaria GPS" and defends Obama's recent diplomatic outreach during his international debut: "I have not seen it as an apology tour," says Gates. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart Inflicts Discomfort on Cliff May

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2009 Cliff May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, was clearly on the defensive as he took the hot seat during Tuesday's "Daily Show" with the unenviable task of debating whether or not waterboarding is torture, whether American officials have to follow the Geneva Conventions under all circumstances, and whether President Truman was a war criminal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2009 In its zeal to crack down on illegal immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining and deporting American citizens. The Center for Investigative Reporting's Andrew Becker talks about his investigation into this disturbing trend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Columbia Professor Faints on ‘Glenn Beck’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2009 It's hard to say what made Columbia University professor David Buckner pass out during Monday's episode of "Glenn Beck," but perhaps standing so close to the Fox Newser and being obliged to describe a complex economic scenario with the aid of a cheesy graphic entitled "Path to Destruction" had something to do with Buckner's sudden need to take a break from full consciousness. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’

BLANK Apr 12, 2009 The whip-smart and ever-sly Gore Vidal visited "Real Time" on Friday, giving his historical and sometimes hysterically funny take on the state of the United States. He also revisited a few key moments from his personal history, illustrated by some priceless archival footage found by Bill Maher's crack research team. Is it too soon to make an Amelia Earhart joke? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Business of War

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2009 Pentagon whistle-blower Karen Kwiatowski returns to the Truthdig podcast to take stock of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which she says are effectively "a government jobs program for the military and military contractors." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Welcome Back, Spitzer

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2009 So, Matt Lauer busted right out of the gates with the sex-scandal questions in his interview with Eliot Spitzer on Monday's "Today" show, taking far too much time to extract mea culpas from the fallen former New York governor before getting to the better part of the program, during which Spitzer holds forth about the economy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )