Harry Reid: Intel Community 'run by one person' - Cheney (Salon Interview)

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 4:55 AM PDT

2006/06/13 · 04:55

The YK Salon interview with Harry Reid is a right tasty one:

"In the course of 20 minutes, he discussed the effect blogs have had on Washington; argued that Dick Cheney is single-handedly running the entire intelligence community; described his personal relationship -- or lack thereof -- with George W. Bush; and defended his decision to endorse Lieberman over his Democratic primary challenger, blogger favorite Ned Lamont. "

Others can mine the other nuggets; The most fascinating vein for me is his recognition and unveiling the truth we've long suspected but are just now are getting public recognition. As Reid puts it:

"... I think we've come to learn that the intelligence community in America is run by one person -- one person -- and that's the vice president."

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Uranium Suspected in Merc's Death in Iraq

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Friday December 30, 2005 · 5:47 PM PST

2005/12/30 · 17:47

The U.S.'s depleted uranium (DU) rounds are coming back to haunt us.

Uranium suspected in Iraq merc's death
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The death of a Peruvian security guard who had worked in Iraq may have been caused by exposure to depleted uranium.

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The Torture Biz: Selling Our Soul for Disinfo Rubbish

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 9:18 AM PST

2005/12/13 · 09:18

Selling Our Souls for Dross

The Sundance Channel is currently reshowing the 2005 documentary by investigative reporter Andrew Gilligan and producer Sarah McDonald Torture: The Dirty Business. The whole one hour documentary is well worth the time: see it if you can! It exposes the multinational torture industry, HQed by the U.S. The U.S. and U.K. lead this industry by both creating supply and demand. They supply victims through the practice "extraordinary rendition": kidnapping unconvicted, unindicted, uncharged (!) Al Queda suspects who are then exported to other countries for torture processing and then purchasing the torture "information product" for U.S. and U.K. consumption. Perhaps the most ironic part is the fact the "information" obtained this way is so useless it would best be sent straight to the dust bin. Let's us fast forward to the last segment of the documentary [jump down]: Read More

CIA: "...USA has a vice president for torture"

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Friday November 18, 2005 · 8:51 AM PST

2005/11/18 · 08:51

The venerable Stansfield Turner, CIA chief in the 1970s has thrown his considerable weight into the fray -- lookout NeoCon Cabal, here comes the big guns: 'I am embarrassed that the USA has a vice president for torture. I think it is just reprehensible. He (Mr Cheney) advocates torture..."

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Bush on Torture: 'Nobody was beheaded'

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 9:56 AM PST

2005/11/17 · 09:56

Bush on torture: 'Nobody was beheaded'

Bush, defending a facility that was found to be holding dozens of prisoners, including some showing signs of torture, saying it held "the most criminal terrorists." "Nobody was beheaded or killed," a defiant Bush told a news conference today, saying that only seven of 170 detainees showed marks of torture.

Oh, sorry, that's not Bush, that's the Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr. It just sounds exactly like Bush's weakass excuses for why what the "coalition" is doing isn't torture, whereas those evil people over there are the real terrorist! Us vs. them. Makes perfect sense, right? Right???

Immediate IraqiNam Withdrawal: Woolsey

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Wednesday May 11, 2005 · 3:31 PM PDT

2005/05/11 · 15:31

Watching C-SPAN yesterday I was pleasantly suprised to hear Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D. CA (Petaluma) from the floor call for immediate US withdrawal from its occupation war in Iraq. Of course you didn't hear anything about it on the news. No, of course not. Here's an article Published on Thursday, January 20, 2005 on CommonDreams.org called 'A Shaky Media Taboo -- Withdrawal from Iraq' by Norman Solomon

Because of this "Media Taboo" I didn't realize that Woolsey introduced a Congressional Resolution for immediate US withdrawal from Iraq Jan 19th of this year. More below the fold... Read More

NYT: Breaking Bottles Over Iraqi Civies Heads: U.S. Soldiers Abusive Ways

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Wednesday May 04, 2005 · 10:38 AM PDT

2005/05/04 · 10:38

Winning Hearts and Minds: Former Soldier Recounts Extensive Abuse of Iraqui Civies

This flashback to IraquiNam is from the NYT:

Bob Herbert: From 'gook' to 'raghead'
Bob Herbert The New York Times

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005

gratuitous violence that, according to Delgado, is routinely inflicted by American soldiers on ordinary Iraqis. He said: "Guys in my unit, particularly the younger guys, would drive by in their Humvee and shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians passing by. They'd keep a bunch of empty Coke bottles in the Humvee to break over people's heads."

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NPR: CIA Literally Ordered Bin Laden's Head On Ice After 9/11

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Tuesday May 03, 2005 · 5:45 PM PDT

2005/05/03 · 17:45

Talk about your "cowboy president"! Those of us in Europe thought Amerika had lost it entirely with Reagan, but that was nothing compared to Mini Me!

Bring home bin Laden's head, CIA told
From correspondents in Washington
May 04, 2005
From: Reuters

US spy chiefs ordered agents to deliver Osama bin Laden's severed head in a box of dry ice and hoist heads of other al-Qaeda leaders on pikes, a retired field officer has disclosed.
As the US reeled in shock days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the opposition Northern Alliance to topple bin Laden's hosts the Taliban.

He told National Public Radio (NPR) in an interview broadcast yesterday and today that he stopped by the office of then Director of the CIA counter-terrorism centre Cofer Black for final instructions.

He was told : "Your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their cooperation military and they will take on the Taliban."

"When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice."

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Wednesday April 27, 2005 · 3:38 PM PDT

2005/04/27 · 15:38

Pentagon executing soldiers who question civilian massacres. Read the story below the fold. Heil Der Fuhrer Bush!
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Bush + Saddam + Blair ="Triangle of Death": Iraqui Protestors

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Saturday April 09, 2005 · 11:24 AM PDT

2005/04/09 · 11:24

Calling for witdrawal of U.S. forces hundreds of pro-new-Iraqui-government protesters called coined the phrase "Triangle of Death" to describe the axis of evil formed by the perpetual war-mongers Saddam Hussien, George Bush and Tony Blair. A pox on all their houses say I!

Iraqi protesters: 'No, no to America'

Saturday, April 9, 2005 Posted: 1:47 PM EDT (1747 GMT)

Iraqis rally Saturday in Baghdad's Firdos Square, where Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in 2003.

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