Friday 15 May 2009
Jason Leopold | Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied to Congress About
Interrogations
http://www.truthout.org/051509A?n
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Claims that Democrats were fully briefed on the
Bush administration's torture program have been leveled as recently as last
December by Vice President Dick Cheney and in books by former Bush officials
such as John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general at the Office of
Legal Counsel (OLC), who helped draft one of the four memos released last week.
But the veracity of those assertions have been called into question by former
CIA official Mary O. McCarthy, who said senior agency officials lied to members
of Congress during an intelligence briefing in 2005 when they said the agency
did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of
detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story
in The Washington Post."
Obama to Renew Military Tribunals
http://www.truthout.org/051509B?n
Julian E. Barnes, The Los Angeles Times: "The Obama administration will
announce plans today to revive the Bush-era military commission system for
prosecuting terrorism suspects, current and former officials said, reversing a
campaign pledge to rely instead on federal courts and the traditional military
justice system."
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | Afghanistan/Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die
http://www.truthout.org/051509C?n
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "During the 2008 presidential campaign,
candidate Obama promised to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq in order to
bolster the forces in Afghanistan in order to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
'It's time to refocus our attention on the war we have to win in Afghanistan.'
I believe that this tactic was taken by the Obama team in order to placate the
anti-Iraq contingent in the American electorate, while not leaving himself
vulnerable to the 'soft on defense' hawkish critics on the other side. As a
campaign tactic, this approach proved to be successful. In reality, this may
prove to be one of the greatest miscalculations President Obama could make."
To Probe Detainee Abuse, Congress Leans Toward Outsourcing
http://www.truthout.org/051509D?n
Gail Russell Chaddock, The Christian Science Monitor: "Congress is on
track to punt its toughest investigations - including the hot-button one over
harsh and possibly illegal treatment of terrorism suspects - to freshly minted,
independent commissions, seen as freer of partisan rancor than the House and
Senate."
Favilla | The Democracy Factory
http://www.truthout.org/051509F?n
The authors writing as Favilla for Les Echos attended a three-day forum
on the future of democracy, where 3,000 of the cream of the French-speaking
intelligentsia examined "how our globalized universe is going to continue and
develop the democratic process or whether that process might peter out, or even
collapse."
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