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Saturday 30th August 2008
Torture & Liberty
4:41 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Torture | Comments: 4
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).
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 [...]