Video: Murder.gov

(LewRockwell) – “The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen,” the New York Times reports. And yes, those are cheers you hear over the drums, erupting from the same neocons who applauded torture and Gitmo. That’s because the intended victim is “the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki…who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam” but who is now “hiding in Yemen.”

NY Times: “The Cover-Up Continues”

No, no mention of 9/11. Just a reminder that for the mainstream press you can talk about Bush’s “abuses of power,” but you can’t cross the imaginary line that protects the 9/11 Commission.

Alleged 9/11 mastermind may stand trial in New York City

WASHINGTON – The confessed 9/11 mastermind and four other killers from Guantanamo Bay may soon be flown to New York to face death penalty trials, the Daily News has learned.

Video: Paramilitary Force To Boss Internment Camp In Montana

Empty detention facility could serve as Gitmo in the U.S., as reports emerge of APF thugs harassing citizens

US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World

(PaulCraigRoberts) – Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.

Bush tortured children, and America yawns

At an Amnesty International conference a few years ago, I had the honor of attending a talk by Clive Stafford Smith, a British attorney who represents some of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Obama Considers “Military-civilian” Prison System for Suspected Terrorists

“The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison,” the Associated Press is reporting.

Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR

In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined the Obama administration’s foreign policy, which has been widely touted as a sharp break from that of his predecessor’s. Judging from commentary in the media, Obama has ushered in a new age of diplomacy and international engagement. Clinton herself suggested as much.

Obama’s Czars “R” US!

The definition of a Czar in Merriam Webster’s dictionary is the following: “One having great power and authority.” [18].  According to Wikipedia,  the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch). [13].

MSM: David Miliband wants interrogation policy kept secret

(Guardian) – The foreign secretary, David Miliband, told MPs today that he will not allow the public to see the secret interrogation policy that is at the heart of allegations that MI5 has been colluding in the torture of British citizens.

MSM: Detainee claims to have lied under CIA torture

(AFP) – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative and self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, claimed to have lied under torture by the CIA, according to government transcripts released Monday.

Obama must prosecute Bush-era torture enablers

With Dick Cheney and the infamous torture memos making headlines, President Obama and our nation face a choice. Should they prosecute or protect those responsible for the torture of detainees in secret CIA detention centers? If our leaders wish to steer our country back to the right side of the law, they must act immediately and unequivocally to prosecute.

MSM: CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked

(Reuters) – CIA director Leon Panetta says it’s almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the “harsh interrogation” of terrorism suspects.

Glenn Beck’s Outrageous Lie: Racist Von Brunn is “Hero of 9/11 Truthers”

There should be absolutely no doubt Glenn Beck is a government disinfo operative tasked with taking down the 9/11 truth and patriot movements. In fact, Fox News — as a primary fount of Operation Mockingbird — is tasked with attacking not only the 9/11 truth movement but the pro-liberty and Constitution movements as well.

Humanitarian Aid Worker: Torture Only Stopped When I Pretended I Was In Al Qaeda

Lakhdar Boumediene worked for a humanitarian relief agency – the equivalent of the Red Cross in the middle least (the Red Crescent).

Barack Bonaparte – ‘Soft Power’ and Personal Charm

When the European conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt as part of his quest for world domination, he told the people: “You will be told that I came to destroy your religion; do not believe it … I have more respect than the Mamelukes for your God, His Prophet, and the Koran” and many more sweet words besides.

Video: Rather – Former detainee says torture still going on at Gitmo

Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor who now hosts a news magazine on cable channel HDNet, has done a documentary on a former Guantanamo prisoner who says he was tortured for years before being released two weeks ago.

MSM: Judge’s ruling could reveal Gitmo secrets in late July

(CNN) – The U.S. government cannot collectively seal its records in more than 100 cases involving the indefinite detention of suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Video: US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says

The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.

Doublespeak on North Korea: Who Will Stand Up to America and Israel?

The military/security complex that rules America, together with the Israel Lobby and the financial banksters, needs a long list of dangerous enemies to keep the taxpayers’ money flowing into its coffers.

Obama: more dangerous than Bush

Barack Obama has continued to prove that he said things to get votes that he had no intention of actually doing. He espoused morals and ideals in order to fool voters.

MSM: “I was Slow to Recognize the Stain of Guantanamo”

Sunday’s Washington Post contained a chilling first-person report from a a former lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served as a military lawyer in Bosnia, Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It tells his very personal involvement with detainees at Guantanamo, and especially about the case of Mohammad Jawad, who was only 16 at the time of his arrest. Forward this story to people who think Guantanamo is full of terrorists. This is the truth.

Video: CSPAN – They Want ‘Mama’ to Make it All Better – Rep. Marcy Kaptur

“While the banks get to run home to ‘Mama,’ and they are crying, we really have to ask ourselves what has ‘Mama’ given us here? What does it say about our values when we pump 100’s of billions of dollars into preserving wall streets bad boys, while ignoring the plight of the American people? Across main streets from coast to coast, people are losing their homes, but are Mr. Paulson or Mr. Bernanke giving them any bet on the upside? They’re not even helping them on the downside all their giving them is a bill for wall streets excesses.”

“I feel sorry for this country. Wheres the federal reserve? Wake up America, wake up America!”

September 17, 2008 C-SPAN

The Bush Administration Is an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law

Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals

Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution. What the world has watched instead is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international and domestic legal orders by a group of men and women who are thoroughly Machiavellian and Straussian in their perception of international relations and in their conduct of both foreign policy and domestic affairs.

Report: Exams reveal abuse, torture of detainees

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.

Jailed for Protesting Gitmo: 34 Convicted for Demonstrations Outside Supreme Court

Thirty-four Americans arrested at the Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 were found guilty after a three-day trial which began on Tuesday, May 27th in D.C. Superior Court