Posted on June 26th, 2008 by gestroud 3 views
In reaction to 9/11, our modern Pearl Harbor, the Federal Government has gone far beyond taking measures to prevent terrorism. They’ve taken measures to prevent the freedom of US citizens. In the hurricane of post 9/11 legislation sweeping through Congress, a suspicious little addendum to a military appropriations and tsunami relief bill (HR1268), the Real [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by gestroud 2 views
Proving the old axiom that Congress “is the best that money can buy,” congressional Democrats are preparing to gut the Constitution by granting giant telecom companies retroactive immunity and liability protection on warrantless wiretapping by the Bush regime. Post to Twitter
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by gestroud 19 views
Opinions that once gave legal cover to the Bush administration’s torture regime are ultimately branding both John Yoo and the administration as war criminals.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by gestroud 38 views
George W. Bush acknowledged that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. “I’m aware that our national security team met on this issue and I approved,†he said. He also defended the use of waterboarding – simulated drowning where the victim feels like they are about to die.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by gestroud 27 views
Since 9/11, the Bush administration and their legal sycophants in the Justice Department and right-wing think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society, have claimed that the criminal regime in Washington has the legal right to employ any tactic to pursue its sordid agenda.