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Editorial Column: What is NSA’s General Hayden Hiding?

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Team VCS

January 15, 2009 – Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden is going around town telling folks he has warned President-elect Barack Obama “personally and forcefully” that if Obama authorizes an investigation into controversial activities like waterboarding, “no one in Langley will … Continue reading →

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Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Team VCS

January 14, 2009 – The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, … Continue reading →

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Bush/Cheney: ‘Most Impeachable’

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Team VCS

January 14, 2009 – House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers says President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney committed impeachment-worthy offenses which must be thoroughly investigated even after the two men leave office as a means of reaffirming … Continue reading →

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Religious Groups Seek Swift Ban from Obama on Torture

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Team VCS

January 14, 2009 – A broad coalition of religious groups is calling on President-elect Barack Obama to issue an executive order on his first day in office banning the use of torture. Leaders of the coalition, the National Religious Campaign … Continue reading →

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President Bush Admission: I Personally Authorized Torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Team VCS

January 11, 2009 – In an interview with Brit Hume that aired today on Fox News Sunday, President Bush admitted that he personally authorized the torture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He said he personally asked “what tools” were … Continue reading →

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Turkish Government Arrests 100 in Coup Plot

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Team VCS

The coup plot case underlines a widening divide between the country’s growing Islamic class and secularists.  January 11, 2009, Ankara, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court formally arrested 14 more people Sunday for ties to an alleged secularist plot by … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Bush Rule was Eight Years of Madoff Ponzi Scams

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Team VCS

January 11, 2009 – Three days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with the revelation of another $50 billion rip-off. This time … Continue reading →

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Obama Picks a Conscience for the CIA

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Team VCS

January 8, 2009 – At long last. Change we can believe in. In choosing Leon Panetta to take charge of the CIA, President-elect Barak Obama has shown he is determined to put an abrupt end to the lawlessness and deceit … Continue reading →

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Jan 5, Enormous Victory for Freedom: President-Elect Obama’s Justice Nominees Support Restoring Our Constitution

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Team VCS

January 5, 2009 09:58:40 PM, WASHINGTON – In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll back Bush administration counterterrorism policies authorizing harsh interrogation techniques, warrantless spying and indefinite detentions of terrorism … Continue reading →

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Historical Review: Vice President Richard Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Team VCS

In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting. Although firmly ensconced, even in the popular imagination, as an example of … Continue reading →

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