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Here's the funny part. This dark fantasy of a third Bush term is also an accurate portrait of Obama's first term to date.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
When it comes to the Bush torture regime, President Obama famously wants to look forward, not backward. But if the wrong lessons have been learned, th...
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Obama's handling of the CIA's report on torture may be the last chance he has to find his way back to Grant Park.
Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.
ABC News | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Lakhdar Boumediene's own children didn't recognize him when he stepped off the military aircraft, looking gaunt and out of place. His 8-year-old daugh...
Politico | JOSH GERSTEIN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges...
Tom Hayden | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Silence in the face of the censorship means collaborating in the cover-up of torture.
Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
In retrospect, it may become more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Is systemic sex crime practiced by the US in a consequence of the lawlessness of "the war on terror" surprising to those of us who work on issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
General David Petraeus said this past weekend that President Obama's decision to close down Gitmo and end harsh interrogation techniques would benefit...
David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.23.2009 | Home
This week, Barack Obama reiterated that he has "no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years." He may have no interest, but Dick Cheney certainly does. And he's got nothing but time on his hands. Which means we will keep re-litigating those policies until we get to the bottom of things. But Obama and his administration needn't spend even a second of their time on this. Leave that to a bipartisan Truth Commission. Look at how much we found out this month, including the fact that waterboarding was used in an attempt to extract backup for Cheney's fantasy of an Iraq/al Qaeda connection, and imagine what revelations subpoena power would bring. Without a full accounting of the Bush administration's use of torture, there will never be closure. Only endless re-litigation.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/ | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Obama just issued a signing statement to the bill establishing the "Pecora Commission," mandated to investigate the financial meltdown. The statement ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole have made historic gains in public trust when it comes to national security and foreign pol...
John Cusack | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
The Cheneys are seeking to lay the groundwork for a "Who Lost America?" debate should there be another terrorist attack during the Obama presidency.
John L. Esposito | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
The recent release of CIA memos regarding the use of torture, in particular water boarding, have been a grim reminder of the legacy of the Bush era.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's use of waterboarding on Thursday, saying that, contrary to arguments made by Bara...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Chris Dodd took some noticeably hard shots at the White House in a recent interview with Connecticut bloggers, ridiculing the Obama officials who...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Is Barack Obama reading blogs, particularly the site of one of his campaign's most committed supporters, Andrew Sullivan? At his press conference o...
Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
The first sign that the Obama DOJ would replicate many of the worst and most radical arguments of the Bush DOJ was in the Jeppesen case, a lawsuit bro...
Trey Ellis | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
What moral scale could the administration and Harry Reid possibly be using for not wanting to immediately determine which former government officials either sanctified or urged the CIA to torture?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The central debate dominating discussions of a possible investigation into torture by the Bush administration seems to have shifted sharply in the pas...
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David Swanson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics