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Needlenose: “Iraq’s prison system is overrun with Shiite Muslim militiamen who have freed fellow militia members convicted of major crimes and executed Sunni Arab inmates, the country’s deputy justice minister said in an interview this week. ‘We cannot control the prisons. It’s as simple as that,’ said the deputy minister, Pusho Ibrahim Ali Daza Yei, […]
MoreTorturers love loopholes Needlenose: “A secretive military Special Operations group in Iraq used several unauthorized interrogation tactics on detainees in early 2004 after it erroneously received an outdated policy from commanders in Baghdad, according to a high-level military investigative report released yesterday at the Pentagon. . . . Army Brig. Gen. Richard P. Formica found […]
MoreFRONTLINE: the dark side PBS After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet’s CIA for control over intelligence. CIA officials, analysts and operators … State Department and […]
MoreCrooks and Liars:: “Ava Lowery on CNN Ava Lowery on CNN The fifteen year old girl from Alabama that has received almost as many death threats as I have for making ‘this video’ was on CNN last night. (Here’s some information about Ava.) Video-WMP Video-QT”
MoreCrooks and Liars::Glenn Greenwald on Al Franken Glenn Greenwald on Al Franken Here’s Franken’s Home Page… Audio-MP3 Glenn joined Al to talk about his new book, ‘How Would a Patriot Act?’”
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