Don't Know Nothin About History

George Bush Should Take a Lesson From President Grant Before Interfering With the Markets (by Tracy Dove, the Naked Historian)

But we don't torture

From the San Francisco Chronicle

The White House said Friday that it has given the CIA approval to resume its use of some severe interrogation methods for questioning terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.

With the new authority, Bush administration officials said, the CIA now could proceed with an interrogation program that has been in limbo since the Supreme Court ruled last year that all prisoners in American captivity be treated in accordance with Geneva Convention prohibitions against humiliating and degrading treatment.

Opening the secret prisons

Maybe our secret prisons will become just a little less secret.

A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. government on Friday to turn over virtually all its information on Guantanamo detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit disclosures. ...

Condi the hack

Condi Rice writes an oped on Lebanon and it's such a weak piece of hack work that nobody will publish it. The Secretary of State.

What kind of people do we have running things? The requirement for any newspaper to publish an oped by the Secretary of State is never more than two sentences that contain some substance. That she can't bet over that bar says so much about the lack of depth of the people running American.

You should be scared.