On morning TV cable news:
Meanwhile, Republicans counter-attack other Republicans on the Senate floor:
On morning TV cable news:
Meanwhile, Republicans counter-attack other Republicans on the Senate floor:
The US is fighting a war to defend this guy.
The most controversial parts of the law deal explicitly with sexual relations. Article 132 requires women to obey their husband’s sexual demands and stipulates that a man can expect to have sex with his wife at least “once every four nights” when travelling, unless they are ill. The law also gives men preferential inheritance rights, easier access to divorce, and priority in court.
A report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, Unifem, warned: “Article 132 legalises the rape of a wife by her husband”.
This is no joke.
“Destroyed” is my term; the total amount is not known yet but I predict that when more is revealed this will be the mainstream term for what this Bush appointee did.
Abu Zubaida, the US’s most famous torture victim, provided practically nothing to his US torturers, because he didn’t know much of anything about Al Qaeda. This article links to the original story in the Washington Post, but the author, Froomkin, gives the journalistic history of this story which goes all the way back to Ron Suskind originally reporting it in 2006. No one else had the guts to follow up on Suskind until Bush was out of office. Also, recently freed torture victim Binyam Mohamed, who is a major figure in the British press, tells the world that a female prisoner was tortured when he was being held at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, and he identifies the victim.
This is not directly stated in the story, but I believe this is what happened. We’ll hear more in the morning as Obama reveals his next phase in the bailout plan.
Wrestling fans hate Bush more than the sledgehammer molester. Now there is a headline you can sink your teeth into.
Is gone. Arlen Specter, the Joe Lieberman of the Republican Party, has stabbed Pennsylvania workers, who have supported him for his entire career, in the back, and spectacularly.
I don’t like Geithner at all, but while reading this latest installment in the saga keep in mind that so far Geithner has not been allowed to have an of his deputies or assistants due to Republican blockage. Why does that matter? It means the liaison with Congress, and therefore the insertion of the exemption for bonuses in the stimulus bill, was the work of one or more ofGeorge W. Bush’s holdover treasury appointees, and I predict this will soon be news.
An internal confidential report was leaked to Mark Danner.
Often using the detainee’s own words, the report offers a harrowing view of conditions at the secret prisons, where prisoners were told they were being taken “to the verge of death and back,” according to one excerpt. During interrogations, the captives were routinely beaten, doused with cold water and slammed head-first into walls. Between sessions, they were stripped of clothing, bombarded with loud music, exposed to cold temperatures, and deprived of sleep and solid food for days on end. Some detainees described being forced to stand for days, with their arms shackled above them, wearing only diapers.
“On a daily basis . . . a collar was looped around my neck and then used to slam me against the walls of the interrogation room,” the report quotes detainee Tawfiq bin Attash, also known as Walid Muhammad bin Attash, as saying. Later, he said, he was wrapped in a plastic sheet while cold water was “poured onto my body with buckets.” He added: “I would be wrapped inside the sheet with cold water for several minutes. Then I would be taken for interrogation.”