Archive for the 'Bush administration' Category
So Many Criminals
Posted on July 24, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, detainee abuse, domestic spying | Leave a Comment
Having trouble keeping up with all of the Bushies’ not-so-legal activities? Slate has a fantastic new interactive diagram to help you figure out who did what- to the extent of the information currently available- in each of the White House’s major scandals. Illegal wiretapping, corruption of the DOJ, secret CIA interrogation tapes, and torture are [...]
Least Surprising News Of The Morning
Posted on July 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Labor | Leave a Comment
The Bush administration is both acting secretively and pushing pro-business, anti-worker policies? HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?!?
Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers’ on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.
The agency did [...]
The Decider Has Spoken… And He Agrees With The Democrats?
Posted on July 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Bush administration, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
First Read:
You can’t make this up… NBC’s John Yang reports President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have agreed that a new agreement setting the parameters for US-Iraqi relations after the current UN mandate expires at the end of the year should include non-binding language–”a general time horizon” and not “an arbitrary date”–about the [...]
Mission 2/3 Accomplished
Posted on June 26, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, North Korea, war on terror | Leave a Comment
We overthrew Saddam. North Korea is no longer a state sponsor of terrorism. The Axis of Evil has officially dwindled to a single Country of Evil. As soon as Bush lets fly with the bombs in Iran, the War on Terror will be won.
Suck on that, Bush-hating terrorist appeasers.
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How Low They Can Go
Posted on June 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, detainee abuse | Leave a Comment
Sea level, taken literally. Center of the Earth, taken metaphorically. (Via dday)
The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.
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Information about the operation of prison ships has emerged [...]
I Am Proud To Have Cast A Vote For This Man And Will Be Proud To So Again In The General
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Constitution | Leave a Comment
Via Spencer Ackerman, Barack Obama gave us a preview of his first hundred days as president:
During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama — a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office.
“I would call my attorney general in [...]
Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Scott McClellan, Things I Don't Care About, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washingt, books | Leave a Comment
(Part sixteen in an ongoing series)
Scott McClellan’s critique of the Bush administration in his upcoming memoir.
Seriously, is there going to be anything in here I didn’t already know?
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Eight Months Is About Eight Months Too Long
Posted on May 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Iran | Leave a Comment
Think Progress passes along a Jerusalem Post story which warns us of Bush administration plans to attack Iran:
Army Radio had quoted a top official in Jerusalem claiming that a senior member in the entourage of President Bush, who concluded a trip to Israel last week, had said in a closed meeting here that Bush and [...]
No One Cares What We Think
Posted on April 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, India, Iran, international relations | Leave a Comment
Another US ally tells Bush to fuck off:
India has tartly dismissed American advice that it press Iran to give up its nuclear program, saying it does not need “any guidance on the future conduct” of its foreign relations.
The lasting effects of the Bush administration’s lack of respect for the rest of the world are going [...]
Take That, Jon Stewart!
Posted on April 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, waterboarding | Leave a Comment
Oh, thank goodness. For a while there the world had turned topsy-turvy; John Ashcroft appeared to have been the closest thing to a voice of reason in the early days of the Torture White House. Fortunately, Ashcroft is here to set the record straight.
Yesterday, former attorney general John Ashcroft spoke at St. John’s University on [...]
Only Dirty Fucking Hippies Care About Mental Illness Caused By War
Posted on April 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Afghanistan war, Bush administration, Iraq war, Military, PTSD, supporting the troops | Leave a Comment
The lede says it all.
The latest and most comprehensive study of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has concluded that nearly 1 in every 5 veterans is suffering from depression or stress disorders and that many are not getting adequate care.
A more specific breakdown of the numbers:
An estimated 300,000 veterans among the nearly 1.7 [...]
We think the same things at the same time, we just can’t do anything about it. So don’t ask me ask the ministry, so don’t ask me ask the ministry
Posted on April 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
The big news this morning is ABC’s torture scoop:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings [...]
Hey, New York Times: You Suck!
Posted on April 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, John Yoo, New York Times, detainee abuse, the media, torture | Leave a Comment
’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations
Way to euphemize your own article, NYT headline person. The White House declared all laws designed to prohibit torture to be irrelevant to its conduct. That’s what the memo says and that’s what your reporting says; why does the headline need to be shrouded in bullshit about “harsh interrogations”?
For the [...]
The Yoo Memo Is Freed
Posted on April 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, John Yoo, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Time to fire up the international war crimes tribunal!
Federal laws prohibiting assault and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander-in-chief overrode such statutes, according to a newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memo released today.
The memo–which was rescinded just nine months after it was [...]
America Doesn’t Torture
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 60 minutes, Bush administration, Murat Kurnaz, detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Read this. Seriously, read it. Or watch the 60 Minutes piece:
Getting booed at a baseball game doesn’t begin to serve as fair punishment for the men responsible. (Nor does being forced to talk to Joe Morgan for half an hour, for that matter.) I’m not optimistic when it comes to Murat Kurnaz’s odds of ever [...]
I’m Putting My Privatized Social Security Money Directly Into High-Risk Mortgage Lenders
Posted on March 25, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, economy, social security | Leave a Comment
Please, Republicans, try to make “reforming” Social Security into an issue again. Do it in an election year. Do it precisely when Americans are convinced that the economy is the most busted it’s been in years and will be especially receptive to sacrificing what little financial security they have.
Recently re-elected Bush with 50% approval couldn’t [...]
