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 Ivy Leaguers at Yale University have compiled a list of the Top 10 Quotes of 2009, and it appears Kanye West and hot-headed South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson spouted off some of the year’s most buzzworthy phrases. “It reveals that things are so polarized now,” said Fred Shapiro, editor of ...
The top military commander in Afghanistan - Stanley McChrystal - says that getting Bin Laden is the key to defeating Al Qaeda.Getting Bin Laden sounds fine to me. But apparently the Bush administration couldn't have cared less about him.The oldest - ...
Everyone knew the WMD claims were fake.For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well.And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -wh...
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...
Barack Obama's birthday is tomorrow (or IS IT?) and in the spirit of gift giving, I've got something for the 28% of Republicans who don't...
If other GOP members who are elected to office follow her example and quit after serving approximately 60% of their first elected terms -- just think how much better for the nation.
A serious examination of the CIA/assassination story should begin by sweeping aside the rubbish cluttering the electronic ether on this issue.
By Jonathan BealeBBC News, TbilisiOn foreign trips, US Vice-President Joe Biden looks like a man who is really enjoying himself.His ...
President Barack Obama has hosted at least 27 meetings with some of the most influential private health-industry executives in the country in an effort to placate or at least quiet potential opponents of reform in what remains a tenuous legisl...
Dear President Obama, In anticipation of your press conference tonight, I want to give you my thoughts about the strategy being against you and how...
I'll believe it when it finally happens. But the news that Congress might actually stop production of a high-tech, job-generating and, most of all, high-profit...
The Man of Steele: Truth, Justice and the Pharmaceutical Companies' Way WASHINGTON - Michael Steele, the Chairman of the Republican Party, said President Obama's...
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...
NEW YORK — More than most other Emmy categories, the nominations for best comedy series emerge as a clash of disparate contenders. With the announcement of the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards Thursday, a familiar, knotty question rear...
The Russians and Chinese are agitating for a new world currency, something to replace the dollar as the world's reserve legal tender. We need a currency with a little zip, a little style, and possibly rhinestones.
President Barack Obama was received last week in Moscow by a smiling President Dimitri Medvedev and a mostly scowling Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Their "good...
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. ...
I have now learned not to question Sy Hersh. When I heard he was working on a story on an "executive assassination ring" run by...