Former Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a mild heart attack, his fifth in 32 years, but his office said on Tuesday he felt good and will leave the hospital in a day or two. Cheney, 69, who was vice president under President George W. Bush, was hospitalised ...
As I have pointed out periodically since 2005:The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in mu...
Here is a sample of headlines about Dick Cheney from the last 24 hours:Ron Paul slams Cheney: US ‘doing exactly what bin Laden planned’Olbermann: Cheney 'nothing more, nothing less' than traitor[Congressman] Grayson: Did Satan write Cheney's book i...
The Supreme Court has just ruled that four Guantanamo prisoners cannot sue the government for torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights notes:It is an awful day for the rule of law and common decency when the Supreme Court lets stand such an inhuma...
David Steele is a former 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer.Steele has previously written that "9/11 was at a minimum a...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he might refuse to speak with a prosecutor investigating suspected CIA prisoner abuses. He branded the probe as political and bad for national security.
The head of the U.N.'s human rights arm is demanding that the torture investigation go to the very top:The U.S. prosecutor's investigation into alleged criminal CIA interrogation techniques must go right to the top political level, the chief U.N. right...
WASHINGTON Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration offic...
Well, it appeared Old Man Potter's progeny didn't fall far from the gnarled, twisted tree, as America bore witness to Liz Cheney unfurling her...
The Obama "birther" movement has sucked in a few Republican congressmen. But Tuesday night the conspiracy theorists who think our president isn't a citizen got a major boost from none other than Elizabeth Cheney, former State Department offici...
Both Talking Points Memo and Raw Story are raising the possibility that Cheney's assassination squad operated on U.S. soil. Both news sites are basing their speculation on a statement in the Washington Post that the program "imposed no geographical li...
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff joined Ed Schultz on his eponymous MSNBC show to discuss the revelation that Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to keep secret...
Sessions' repetition seemed like piling on. What was the point? Was he trying to catch Sotomayor in a contradiction? To gain an admission? To score points back home?
The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney's secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to the Daily Beast about the next shoe to drop. ...
There is no doubt that there has been wrongdoing. The question is how and when to take action.
Dick Cheney's daughter Liz has been one of his most vocal defenders since he left office, appearing all over the networks to push back against criticisms of his role in everything from domestic policy to foreign affairs. She recently gave a...
Why did Cheney keep then-current CIA head Tenet and current CIA head Panetta, as well as Congress, in the dark about the secret counterterrorism program?Because - as Seymour Hersh has previously explained - the lesson which Cheney learned from the Iran...
Say say say / What you want / But don't play games / With my surveillance WASHINGTON - The United States has begun a...
As I wrote yesterday about the CIA program that Panetta recently disclosed to Congress:As a former CIA agent says, the real question is who ordered the CIA to withhold the information from Congress . . .In a nation of laws, Bush, Cheney - or whoever in...
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the mat...