Democratic Rep. John Conyers, chair of the Judiciary Committee, has “invited” Bush officials who were involved in drafting torture guidelines to testify at a hearing on Tuesday, May 6:
“New and troubling allegations suggest that the decisions on torture came from the highest levels of government,” said Conyers in a statement. “These reports, if true, […]

We all, myself included, gave ourselves a pass a few years into the Bush administration by claiming “outrage fatigue.” Well, fatigue or no, it’s time to get outraged again.
Continuing revelations about Bush cabinet members — the highest level of unelected power-holders in this country — and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney ordering precise torture techniques on […]

Torture-gate: News that, starting in 2002, Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, then-Sec. of State Colin Powell, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, then-Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and others, met to draft torture guidelines for CIA interrogators has been met with a collective yawn by the media.
Their blase reaction is revelatory of the fact that they (along with […]

ABC News is reporting that a gang of top Bush officials known as the “Principals” — but for whom a better moniker might be the “Sadists” — met, starting in 2002, to prescribe in detail which torture techniques, and what combinations, American interorogators could use on terror suspects.
The high-level discussions about these “enhanced interrogation […]

Wikileaks is my new favorite subversive activist Web site. It’s built on the wiki platform, but is intended as a place to leak incriminating documents, but with security systems in place that protect posters’ identities. Today’s leak finds the intrepid members of the PR team stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, removing information related to detainees […]

Current and former White House officials have admitted — though not for attribution — that senior Bush officials were deeply involved in discussions about whether to destroy videos of CIA agents torturing terror suspects:
This brings us back to an increasingly familiar question: What did Bush know about the destruction of the tapes, and when did […]

David Huckabee’s mug shot after his April, 2007 weapons arrest in Little Rock
The White House has boarded its share of unsavory family members of occupants. During Pres. George H.W. Bush’s term, no doubt coke was snorted in the hallowed halls by his sons and their friends. Everyone still remembers what it was like when Billy […]

Photo from the Independent Florida Alligator
It’s not going that well for disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales out on the lecture circuit. Although he collected a hefty $40,000 fee for his recent appearance at the University of Florida, students made sure Gonzo earned every penny.
Early in his speech, two people climbed on the stage in […]

Late on Friday, two Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee announced that they intend to vote to confirm Michael Mukasey, Bush’s nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general of the United States.
Mukasey has indicated that while he finds the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding on suspects to be personally repugnant, he will not object […]