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Thursday 2nd September 2010
Government Online Surveillance and Your Bad Attitude
10:07 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Central Intelligence Agency | FBI | Surveillance | Comments: 1
This great Dilbert cartoon perfectly captures how surveillance breeds distrust.
The feds are spying on us left and right, and yet politicians whine that we don’t trust the government.
At least not everyone’s a damn fool on that regard. (No - this isn’t the cue to recite the Pledge of Allegiance….)
Monday 9th November 2009
Torture Update: Andy Worthington’s Excellent New Film
10:42 am | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Rule of Law | Supreme Court | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, is touring the U.S. with his excellent new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.†He will be in California later this week. Tour schedule is here.
“Outside the Law” does a fine job of blending the legal issues and personal details to burn [...]
Thursday 5th November 2009
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies
12:13 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Congress | Iraq | Lying | Terrorism | Uncategorized | wool | Comments: 3
Posted online today…
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies Freedom Daily August 2009
by James Bovard
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians [...]
Friday 12th June 2009
Perverse Reading Habits of U.S. Attorneys: Shredding Privacy, Except for Torturers
10:06 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Central Intelligence Agency | Torture | wool | Comments: 1
From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
US Attorney subpoenas Las Vegas Review-Journal for info about posters to a web-page story.
“On May 26 the Review-Journal published an article about an ongoing federal tax evasion trial. The primary defendant, Las Vegan Robert Kahre, stands accused of tax fraud for using the rather inventive argument that he could [...]
Wednesday 10th June 2009
The Latest Torture Coverup Scam
9:59 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Central Intelligence Agency | Elective Dictatorship | Obama | Torture | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an oped I wrote on the latest torture coverup. Alas, this subject continues to be hell on idealists.
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The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
by James Bovard, June 10, 2009
The Obama administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. On Monday, CIA chief Leon [...]
Saturday 30th August 2008
Torture & Liberty
4:41 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Torture | Comments: 5
This piece from the July issue of The Freeman is now online here (in PDF) and here (in ASCII - paragraph breaks amended slightly in the version below).
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TORTURE & LIBERTY     Freeman July 2008
by James Bovard
Is torture compatible with liberty?
Unfortunately, this is no longer a hypothetical question. Many Americans who claim to support individual freedom also [...]
Monday 8th May 2006
Perjury as a Job Qualification for Bush Administration
3:48 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Central Intelligence Agency | Surveillance | Comments: 2
Michael Hayden, the former chief of the National Security Agency, was nominated today by President Bush to be the new chief of the CIA.
Thus far, there have been no reports linking Hayden to hookers & poker games at the Watergate.
While serving as NSA chief, Hayden deceived Congress in October 17, 2002 testimony regarding the Foreign [...]
Friday 30th December 2005
Did Bush Personally Choose Torture Methods?
3:19 pm | Bovard | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Rule of Law | Torture | dictatorship | Comments: 1
The Washington Post has another excellent piece today on how the Bush administration exempted the CIA from the Rule of Law after 9/11. Bush issued edicts permitting the CIA “to maintain secret prisons abroad” and “to use interrogation methods that some lawyers say violate international treaties,” among other new powers.
John Radsan, assistant general counsel at [...]