www.AndrewSullivan.com – Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan writes about how the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to a military appropriations bill that would bar the U.S. military from indecent treatment of detainees. The amendment passed by a 90-9 vote. This amendment still needs to be passed by the House, and President Bush has threatened to veto […]
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We are finally starting to get some real information about the Bush Administration’s actions regarding detainee treatment in the “War on Terror.” This blog post describes the recently declassified JAG reports on the DOD’s change of policy regarding interrogation, specifically of detainees at Gitmo. Sadly, this new information isn’t all that surprising – it just […]
Seymour Hersh writes in The New Yorker about stovepiping — the Bush administration’s direct sourcing of intelligence information in order to get what they want to justify their policies. Hersh also answers some questions about the article.
On November 7, George Herbert Walker Bush (the elder) will present his 2003 Award for Excellence in Public Service to none other than long-time Massachusetts Democratic Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy. What gives? Some feel that awarding the sitting President’s most virulent critic a prestigious and personal award is a signal that Junior’s foreign policy could […]
