Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Team VCS

Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors By CARL HULSE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times, November 2, 2005 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 – Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session on Tuesday over the Bush … Continue reading →

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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Team VCS

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons – Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 2, 2005; A01 The CIA has been hiding and … Continue reading →

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Remember That Mushroom Cloud?

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Team VCS

November 2, 2005, New York Times Editorial Board Remember That Mushroom Cloud? The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the … Continue reading →

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Powell aide describes foreign policy cabal

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Team VCS

In President Bush’s first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of … Continue reading →

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Top Cheney Adviser Indicted on Five Felonies in CIA Leak Probe

Posted on October 29, 2005 by Team VCS

A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s identity but spared — at least for now –President Bush’s top political strategist, … Continue reading →

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Vice President for Torture

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Team VCS

VICE PRESIDENT Cheney is aggressively pursuing an initiative that may be unprecedented for an elected official of the executive branch: He is proposing that Congress legally authorize human rights abuses by Americans. “Cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of prisoners is … Continue reading →

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Dick’s War on Saddam

Posted on October 27, 2005 by Team VCS

Dick’s War on Saddam In August 2002, Dick Cheney was doing his best to shock the nation into action by Craig Gordon, Newsday, October 26, 2005 WASHINGTON — It was the last week of August 2002, and the Bush administration’s … Continue reading →

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US Told to Give Data on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

Posted on October 27, 2005 by Team VCS

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to provide medical records on Guantanamo prisoners who are being force-fed while on a hunger strike and to notify their lawyers about forced feedings. U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler acted … Continue reading →

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U.S.: License to Abuse Would Put CIA Above the Law

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Team VCS

The Bush administration is now the only government in the world to claim a legal justification for mistreating prisoners during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said today. The administration recently approached members of the U.S. Congress to seek a waiver that … Continue reading →

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Disasters We Can Prevent

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Team VCS

‘It’s very scary,” a Taunton resident told The New York Times last week. A precarious dam was stressed by a flooding river, and the town was vulnerable. ‘You start wondering, especially with all the natural disasters going on, what’s going … Continue reading →

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