Tony Blair Admits: I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway
Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public.The former prime minister...
View ArticleGetting Away with Torture
1.In the fall of 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen on his way home from Tunisia, was pulled out of line by US officials while changing planes at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. He was locked up...
View ArticleBounties for War Criminals: We Should Not 'Move On' from Mass Murder
George Monbiot The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won't address: was the war with Iraq illegal? If the answer is yes, everything changes.read more
View ArticleRemember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq?
British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair's decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq.read more
View ArticleBush/Cheney Pulled Torture Strings
Robert Parry George W. Bush's White House stage-managed the Justice Department's approval of torture techniques by putting pliable lawyers in key jobs, guiding their opinions and punishing officials...
View ArticleWhen Presidential Sermons Collide
Glenn Greenwald President Obama gave an interview earlier this week to an Indonesian television station in lieu of the scheduled trip to that country which was canceled due to the health care vote....
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush Admits Torture, Says He Would 'Do It Again'
George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again "to save lives"."Yeah, we...
View ArticleBush Admits to Approving Torture–But Which Use of It?
Marcy Wheeler The WaPo reports that Bush, in his book, admits to approving waterboarding.In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of that coercive technique...
View ArticlePresident George W. Bush: Torturer
César Chelala In his recently published memoirs called Decision Points, and in interviews publicizing those memoirs, former President Bush makes it clear his stand on what many consider a basic human...
View ArticleWhy George W. Bush Should Still Worry
Bill Quigley In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a crime...
View ArticleBush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe
Dan Froomkin WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate whether former president...
View ArticleBush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest
Matthew Rothschild George W. Bush better stay at home.The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture.In...
View ArticleInterrogation Nation
Scott Horton Dahlia Lithwick at Slate offers the smartest take so far on George W. Bush's noncoerced confession that he authorized waterboarding and aggressively defended torture as part of his...
View ArticleProtesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble
Medea Benjamin Several thousand people lined up to see George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice shovel dirt into a hole at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the site slated to become the...
View ArticleThe Necessary Reckoning on Rendition and Waterboarding
The British government's settlement agreement to pay compensation to former Guantánamo detainees over claims that they were unlawfully captured and abused while in custody is a meaningful, though not...
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