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Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up

Peter Lance | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jack Cloonan, Triple Cross, Ali Mohamed, Andy McCarthy, Patrick Fitzgerald, Fatwa, Ali Amiriki, 9/11, Fbi, Day of Terror Trial, 9/11 Commission, Al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Peter Lance

Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News
Andy Worthington

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Geneva Conventions, Jack Cloonan, Sere, Torture Memo, Timothy Flanigan, Waterboarding Torture, Terrorism, John Yoo, Vanity Fair, Abu Zubaydah, Warrantless Wiretapping, Donald Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, David Rose, ABC News, President Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Guantanamo, Cheney Interview, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Cheney's version of the truth on interrogations does not stand up to scrutiny, and features ten lies that should not be allowed to pass without further comment and analysis.

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John McCain, Torture Puppet

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jack Cloonan, Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, Mark Fallon, John McCain, Jane Mayer, Cia, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, US Torture, Senate Committee on Armed Services, William J. Haynes II, Carl Levin, Fbi, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.

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