From My Lai to Lockerbie

Tomgram by Nick Turse | Aug. 30, 2009 (Opinion)

Now, a new administration is in power and it has decided to investigate CIA interrogations -- but only those acts by Agency operatives (and its private contractors) that went beyond the bounds of Bush administration extremity, beyond the bounds, that is, of that administration's pretzled definitions of what was not torture. The rest gets a pass. Full Story »

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by John Louden - Aug. 30, 2009

A troubling story, presented with links to substantiate it's claims and an absence of melodrama.

On the day that decision made headlines, another report, “U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight” by David Johnston in the New York Times, barely got noticed, even though it indicated that a now-notorious program of the Bush years would be continued in the Obama era

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