Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action

Posted on May 22, 2005 by Team VCS

STOCKHOLM — The CIA Gulfstream V jet touched down at a small airport west of here just before 9 p.m. on a subfreezing night in December 2001. A half-dozen agents wearing hoods that covered their faces stepped down from the … Continue reading →

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The Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandal

Posted on May 22, 2005 by Team VCS

It’s been over a year since I published a series of articles in the New Yorker outlining the abuses at Abu Ghraib. There have been at least 10 official military investigations since then – none of which has challenged the … Continue reading →

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Red Cross told U.S. of Koran incidents

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Team VCS

The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early … Continue reading →

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Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Team VCS

Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq Army To Suspend Recruiting For Retraining Following Target 5 Investigation CINCINNATI — This is the text of WLWT’s report exactly as it appeared on the 11 p.m. newscast on May 18, 2005:   … Continue reading →

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The military’s desperation is showing

Posted on May 20, 2005 by Team VCS

The military’s desperation is showing Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?  This flower-bedecked poster slogan from the ’60s will surely be haunting the Army’s “values stand-down” day today, when the service branch’s 7,500 recruiters and their COs take … Continue reading →

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Profile: Severe brain injuries among Iraq War Veterans

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Team VCS

A new trauma in Iraq Severe brain injuries – and soldiers who live through them – increase in this war, creating challenges Because more soldiers in Iraq are surviving severe brain injury, doctors are witnessing a potentially long-lasting set of … Continue reading →

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Disabled American Veterans: Veteran Affairs Funding Bill Shortchanges Nation’s Veterans

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Team VCS

Disabled American Veterans: Veteran Affairs Funding Bill Shortchanges Nation’s Veterans To: National Desk Contact: David E. Autry of Disabled American Veterans, 202-314-5219 WASHINGTON, May 16 /U.S. Newswire/ — The proposed funding level for veterans medical care is “a cruel pretense … Continue reading →

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Hersh Sees Democracy in Peril in US

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Team VCS

Seymour Hersh, arguably the greatest journalist of our time and certainly the most necessary, joined me last week at a University of Illinois conference that asked the question: “Can freedom of the press survive media consolidations?” The Pulitzer-winning journalist reworked … Continue reading →

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Alert for Chicago Area Veterans: You Can Question VA Chief About VA Disability Benefits

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Team VCS

Alert for Chicago Area Veterans: You Can Question VA Chief About VA Disability Benefits Illinois veterans will have a chance to quiz Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson about the agency’s disability pay disparity on Friday at an open town hall … Continue reading →

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Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Team VCS

  Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act   It was a moment that librarians had been dreading. On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library … Continue reading →

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