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David Addington and John Yoo are the latest hoofers appearing in the BushCo burlesque, bucking and winging their way through the most recent House Judiciary Committee hearing.
David Addington and John Yoo are the latest hoofers appearing in the BushCo burlesque, bucking and winging their way through the most recent House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
The argument that national security trumps civil liberties is the Big Lie of the Bush years. It's the mantra of men like Cheney's David Addington who belittle civil liberties as tools for terrorists to exploit.
John Seery | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
In attempting to prevent a calamity, in matching wits with our despicable opponent, we have abandoned certain restraining principles, and in the process, become a moral monster.
Katie Halper | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Anyone who knows anything about Islamofascism and/or cable service knows that al-Qaeda hearts C-SPAN, which is one of the few channels you can actually get in Afghani caves.
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser on Thursday refused to claim any responsibility for the adoption of harsh interrogation me...
Huffington Post via ANP | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
David Addington, a longtime aide to Dick Cheney, and John Yoo, who helped write the infamous "torture memos," testified before the House Judiciary Com...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
David Addington is going to say as little as possible to the House Judiciary Committee today. The Vice President's chief of staff didn't submit testim...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home
To read the memoirs and interviews pouring out of the Bush Administration, none of his people were happy. They were all wary and at variance with his policies. Yet they all stayed and carried out his orders.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee about th...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Hasn't torture always belonged in the same "intrinsically evil" moral category like rape, like slavery? If it's still in that category, the pope surely would have taken a stand on torture, right?
Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
For anyone who's traveled unembedded through Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began five years ago, Andrew Sullivan's warning brings a sad smile of recognition, and a hope that his words will prove prophetic.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
According to a new Department of Justice memo, it seems the Bush administration has justified its crimes by not suspending the state of emergency that went up on 9/11.
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration's decision to choose a child soldier -- the Canadian Omar Khadr -- as its first attempt at a real conviction continues to attract heated opposition.
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics
Sources tell me Addington is waking up each day as energetic and vigorous as ever, determined to wreck the Constitution as much as he can before leaving office.
Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
There are 17 names on my favorite poster. If the Bush administration had not taken this country on the disastrous course it has, just think about the GOP names the poster could have had.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
Even the most cursory reading of anything James Madison wrote on the subject of executive power clearly shows that Dick Cheney's expansive views of the powers of the Executive Branch are totally un-American.
Tim Dickinson | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics
The only way to make sure that intensive questioning does not rise to the level of torture is to stop far, far short of torture.
Jane Smiley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics
A responsible citizen is expected to conform to the laws no matter what his emotional state. Same with Cheney and Bush.
David Bromwich | Posted 10.20.2007 | Politics
Cheney has worked tirelessly, in silence and seclusion, to destroy the American system of constitutional checks and to replace it with an executive government operated by a few.
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Steven Weber | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics