Vice President Dick Cheney discussed the subject of waterboarding in an interview with conservative radio talk show host Scott Hennen on October 24, 2006. ” ‘Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?’ the host asked. ‘It’s a no-brainer for me,’ Cheney said. ‘But for a while there, […]
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10/17/2006
“…President Bush’s enactment of the John Warner [National Defense Authorization] Act [on October 17, 2006, which authorized appropriations for military and defense activities]…gave him expanded discretion to determine that a ‘major public emergency’ exists and to deploy the military in response.” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 244-245 […]
10/17/2006
The John Warner National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006, “authorizes the president to determine, at his sole discretion, that the authorities of a given state or possession are ‘unable, fail, or refuse’ to address a public emergency. In that event, he is authorized to ’employ the Armed […]
10/17/2006
“The Military Commissions Act of 2006 [signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006] explicitly authorized many aspects of the military commission regime that the Supreme Court had invalidated three months earlier. And it gave the President much more, including a broadened definition of ‘unlawful enemy combatant’; implicit approval for aggressive interrogations that crossed the […]
10/17/2006
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006, “set out rules for military commissions that appeared to permit evidence obtained through coercion. It also stripped federal courts of jurisdiction over petitions for habeas corpus brought by detainees, instead channeling efforts at judicial review into a narrower proceeding where courts […]
10/17/2006
“On October 17, 2006, President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, providing for the continued controversial practices in its detention and treatment of ‘unlawful combatants.’ ‘The president can now,’ wrote American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony D. Romero, ‘with the approval of Congress–indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific […]
10/17/2006
After the Supreme Court’s Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision on June 29, 2006, which restored the Geneva Conventions for detainees at Guantanamo, Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff “went on to work closely with Congress to restore virtually every aspect of the earlier executive power they had exercised over the detainees, including sole control over […]
10/15/2006
In an interview with author Craig Unger in October 2006, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, expressed his doubts on reports that documented the sale of 500 tons of yellowcake uranium per year from Niger to Iraq. ” ‘The idea that you could get that much yellowcake out […]
10/15/2006
President Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “have put Israel in the worst strategic and operational situation she’s been in since 1948,’ said Larry Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s chief of staff in the State Department [in an interview with author Craig Unger in October 2006]. ‘If you take down Iraq, you eliminate Iran’s number […]
10/15/2006
“In October 2006, the noted British medical journal Lancet…estimated that the total deaths in Iraq in the period between March 2003 and July 2006 may have exceeded 650,000 people. The figure was astounding, as it easily surpassed all the previously published figures of casualties, which ranged from 50,000 (from the unofficial Iraq Body Count) to […]