Philip Giraldi has a new "Deep Background" just out for the American Conservative magazine about former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's new job lobbying for Turkey - from which he has been credibly accused in the past of accepting cash bribes while still in the congress.
Pravda reports that Federal Judge Jay Bybee, who "interpreted" the law to mean that it was perfectly okay for George W. Bush to slam people against the wall 30 times in a row after keeping them awake for a month chained to the ceiling and forced to evacuate on...
"I think it would be very unwise, from my perspective, to start having [torture] commissions, boards, tribunals, until we find out what the facts are." -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid So, I guess the question is whether the leader of the Great Imperial Senate...
This society is ruled only by the will of men. Don't you ever lie to your younger kin and tell them otherwise. Update: Robert "Obama's Ari Fleischer" Gibbs is forced by a CNN reporter to demonstrate the abject hollowness of the administration's absurd substitute for a...
A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA's eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA's "Ghost...
It's starting to look like another Color Revolution. Daniel McAdams has the story at LewRockwell.com/blog.
I'm always getting emails that go something like this: "Hey Scott, what the heck ever happened to Charles Goyette?! We're sick and tired of you, yada, yada, yada..." Well a blogger named Mark Yannone has outdone all of you: October 11, 2005: A year into his...
On the subject of his new book Recarving Rushmore.
Rachel Maddow busts Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State of the United States, as he pretends on live TV to not be qualified to know whether someone (him) would be in violation of the laws of war if that person...
Like for example, if some lone nut shoots less than a dozen others and then himself yesterday… Then call out the U.S. Army today. Update: An investigation has begun as to who ordered the troops outside of their base in direct violation of the posse comitatus and...
