Iraq Archive

  • Wikileaks

    92,000 Secret Docs About Afghan War (WikiLeaks)

    Posted on July 26, 2010 | No Comments
    More than 90,000 secret military records of the US war in Afghanistan were published online Sunday providing new evidence that Americans have been misled for years about the war in Afghanistan. The White House quickly lashed out at the release of the documents. National Security...

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  • The Hidden Cost of War

    The Hidden Cost of War

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what’s behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book,...

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  • CIA won’t release torture documents

    CIA won’t release torture documents

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to release a series of key documents about its secret prison and torture program. The announcement came in response to a court-imposed deadline in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The CIA says releasing information on...

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  • Osama Bin Laden Worked for US Till 9/11

    Osama Bin Laden Worked for US Till 9/11

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
    It’s amazing how much you will learn about 9/11 only if you read.  This is a very important article that I’m reposting from DailyKos. Summary The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001....

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  • Pelosi Accuses CIA of Misleading Congress on Torture

    Pelosi Accuses CIA of Misleading Congress on Torture

    Posted on May 15, 2009 | No Comments
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing the CIA of deliberately misleading Congress about the torture of foreign prisoners. Pelosi made the charge Thursday in acknowledging she first learned of the waterboarding of CIA prisoners in 2003. Republicans have pointed to Pelosi’s involvement in torture briefings...

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  • Report: Torture Backers Lobby to Sway Investigation

    Report: Torture Backers Lobby to Sway Investigation

    Posted on May 6, 2009 | No Comments
    The leaked details of the Justice Department probe come amidst reports Yoo and Bybee have launched an aggressive behind-the-scenes effort to water it down. According to the Washington Post, Yoo and Bybee have encouraged former Bush administration colleagues to warn current Justice Department officials against...

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  • Prosecution of Bush Six Back On

    Prosecution of Bush Six Back On

    Posted on April 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The Daily Beast’s Scott Horton reports that a judge in Spain decided today that an investigation of Bush officials involved in torture policy will go forward and can lead to prosecution. In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garzón has announced that an inquiry...

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  • Bruce Fein: The President has a duty to pardon or charge Bush/Cheney

    Bruce Fein: The President has a duty to pardon or charge Bush/Cheney

    Posted on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Obama keeps saying we must look forward which is just a bunch of bull.  Nobody is above the law and it seems like when any other country does something wrong the we are the first to call for investigations.  But yet, we turn around and...

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