Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe

For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations. While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report concluded that two key authors—Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor—violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter.. » read more

Hillary Clinton raises prospect of resignation

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PMC Mercenaries: Outsourcing War (And Terrorism)

Jan. 19, 2010 (Jan. 19, 2010) In The Prince, Machiavelli (1469-1527) wrote: "The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men." In an August 11, 2009 Global Research article titled, "The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War," Peter Dale Scott called Private Military Contractors (PMCs) businesses "authorized to commit violence in the name of their employers... » read more

Bush, Clinton and the Crimes of US Imperialism in Haiti

Jan. 19, 2010 The Obama administration has announced that former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will head the fundraising for relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake. In his radio speech Saturday, Obama declared: “These two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and the world. In a moment of need, the United States stands united.. » read more

War Criminals Peddle “Humanitarian” Aid for Haiti

Jan. 18, 2010 On Sunday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush mounted the corporate media propaganda platform and complained about the politicization of the Haitian relief effort. Clinton said the devastating earthquake offers a chance to put aside politics and help people in despair. “I’d say now is not the time to focus on politics,” said Bush in an interview taped Saturday for CBS’ “Face the Nation” when the ex-presidents’ visited the White House in response to Obama’s call for a “bipartisan effort” to help Haiti.. » read more

VIDEO: The Clintons and Bushes Are Saviors of the Haitian People

Jan. 18, 2010   VIEW VIDEO    http://www.globalresearch.ca/ index.php?context=va&aid=17039. » read more

Haiti - The Rulers' Luck?

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Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President

Jan. 15, 2010 15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC). The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power.. » read more

VIDEO: Exposing The Bush-Cheney Cabal: Exclusive Footage of an Attempted Citizen's Arrest of G.W. Bush

Jan. 3, 2009 The 2009 Truth Convergence and ICTV Victoria, BC   Recorded at the 2009 Truth Convergence held in Nanaimo, Splitting The Sky discusses his reasons for attempting to arrest G.W. Bush in Calgary, his analysis of the events surrounding 9/11 and the strategy he is planning to employ at his trial in March, 2010. www.. » read more

Top Ten Worst Things About the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs

Dec. 22, 2009 Top Ten Worst Things About the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs y spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. I declare it the decade of the American oligarchs.. » read more

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