America's Most wanted terrorists and war criminals: Dick Cheney Age: 67 Occupation: Vice President of the United States Aliases: Big Time, Satan, the President Remarks: Goes hiding in “undisclosed locations� during times of crises. Shot friend in the face with a shotgun. Caution: Wanted for bein...

    Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the C...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called on the US to charge X-President George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for their participation in torture activities and the mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to-Manfred Nowak-the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: "Jud...

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment," in which he called on President-elect Barack Obama to prosecute President Bush and administration members on a charge of torturing prisoners, and invoked extreme examples such as slavery leadin...

I wish I were smart enough to come up with a list like this. The good news is my friends at TP are smart enough. From TP: Next week, “change is coming to America,� as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn’t able to accomplish such a...

about torture by US of A institutions, the military, CIA et al. Here’s a quote from an opinion piece written by Charles Fried : If you cannot see the difference between Hitler and Dick Cheney, between Stalin and Donald Rumsfeld, between Mao and Alberto Gonzales, there may be no point in our ta...

It would be good to see them face charges for their torture policies. We can only hope the new administration feels the same. (h/t Avedon): In early December, in a highly unusual move, a federal court in New York agreed to rehear a lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft brought by a C...

My first reaction to the story on CNN about the first public Christmas to be celebrated in Baghdad was quite wary. A hot air balloon supporting a huge poster of Jesus is not going to go over very well among the Muslims there, is it, no matter whether they are Sunni or Shiite. And I am not often impr...

December 18, 2008 News Corp...

Vice President Cheney had some advice for President-elect Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney had some blunt — and humorous — advice for incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel at a private breakfast earlier this month, C...