Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George […]
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International Court complaint filed against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al
January 21, 2010Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary […]
Former CIA officials voice strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigation into CIA interrogation methods
October 1, 2009We write you, Mr. President, as former intelligence professionals to voice strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder’s authorization of a wider investigation into CIA interrogation. We respectfully disagree with the direct appeal to you by seven former CIA directors to quash that wider investigation. No analytical leap is required to conclude that those particular […]
The CIA’s Post-Torture Profits
August 26, 2009Monday’s release of the long-awaited CIA report on the agency’s role in torture and interrogation is the official word on the Bush-Cheney “war on terror”. In gruesome detail, it shows how untrained CIA interrogators and private contractors, blessed by their superiors, inflicted detainees captured in the Middle East with “enhanced interrogation techniques”. CIA director Leon […]
