Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tucson Citizen is Arizona's oldest continuously publishing newspaper. It has recorded the history of Arizona since its earliest territorial days. It has been a fixture in the firmament of newspaper publishing in Arizona — until today. Jennifer Boice, interim editor of the Tucson Citizen, writes in the final edition (vol. 139, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There is another part of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's post at the Washington Note The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney that deserves greater attention: My investigations have revealed to me — vividly and clearly — that once the Abu Ghraib photographs were made public in the Spring of 2004, the CIA, its contractors, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The picture becomes clearer every day that the Bush torture program was not for the purpose of preventing another imminent attack on the United States (the "ticking time bomb" scenario) or even for acquiring actionable intelligence in the field on the whereabouts of al Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Bush torture program was … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: George Washington established the American value that "we do not torture" even in the face of atrocities committed by the British empire on American soil. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. authored this educational opinion America's Anti-Torture Tradition, which was published in the Los Angeles Times in December 2005 (excerpts): Every schoolchild knows that Gen. … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura recently was a guest on Larry King Live! (isn't that an oxymoron?) and wasted no time in getting to the torture issue (at 1:20 into the video). Some snippets from Ventura: "We've created our own Hanoi Hilton. We can live with that?" "I would prosecute every person … Read more