Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

March 8, 2008 – President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks. “The bill Congress … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – Cayman Islands – Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – Democrats in the House of Representatives – teetering on the verge of compliance with the spy power demands of the Bush administration – have devised a plan that would give the president everything he has demanded, … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors. The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department´s long history of using service … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – As the war in Iraq slides into its sixth year a few days from now, a cottage industry has grown up to determine how much the conflict has actually cost. Last week, Senate Democrats carried out … Continue reading →

March 7, 2008 – Secretary of the Army Pete Geren will be asked today to convene a panel of officers to investigate “Army policies and practices which permit the deployment of medically unfit soldiers.” Spec. Bryan Currie, 21, of Charleston, … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – A certain reverence is required just to approach the book’s title: “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict” by noted economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. I can see why they … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – There was a time, back in the 1950s, when they were in the Navy together, that Tony Flaherty and Wacko Hurley were the best of friends. When they got back to South Boston, the place where … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – The lead plaintiff in a warrantless wiretapping lawsuit against AT&T is talking publicly about the case. Congress may grant AT&T and other firms retroactive legal immunity. That could end a flurry of lawsuits opposing the Bush … Continue reading →

March 6, 2008 – FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told senators yesterday that agents improperly used a type of administrative subpoena to obtain personal data about Americans until internal reforms were enacted last year. Mueller said a forthcoming report … Continue reading →