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Classified memos have revealed that the Bush administration knowingly endorsed waterboarding and other torture methods for use against terrorist suspects. The memos were issued to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 as classified documents in response to the department’s...
U.S. vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin, a Republican, and Democrat Joe Biden have clashed over the economy and Iraq in their only scheduled debate. The current economic crisis was the early focus in the much-anticipated 90-minute debate in St....
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Italy on Friday to attend an international economic conference and later meet the country’s leadership, national media reported. Cheney has just completed visits to Georgia and Ukraine – former Soviet...
In February, Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, TX announced that the university will be home to President Bush’s $200 million library. The announcement has been met with widespread protests from faculty, administrators, staff, and...
For 17 months, until he left the job in September 2007, Tony Snow was the White House press secretary, the voice of the Bush administration. Now, he is being remembered and mourned by the president he served, and the reporters who sparred with him...
Last week, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan made the media rounds to promote his insider’s account of his time in the Bush administration. The book has revived interest in the Valerie Plame leak scandal, what McClellan calls a...
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney said Monday that Hamas militants, backed by Syria and Iran are trying to “torpedo” current peace negotiations between Israel and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Jim Teeple has details from our...
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank for talks on advancing the Mideast peace process.
With an estimated $16 billion in defense contracts, KBR is by far the largest contractor in Iraq, “with eight times the work of its nearest competitor.” The firm has 54,000 people working on its projects in Iraq. Until last year, KBR operated...