President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006. (Photo: Ron Edmonds / AP) read more...

    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...

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports on an internal DOJ investigation (initiated by the Bush administration) on the Bybee/Yoo memos. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether th...

Go read Nat Hentoff on the Bush administration’s fondness for secret laws. It’s really difficult overstate the hubris and lust for power of this administration. Once again, I’ll plug Charlie Savage’s terrific book Takeover , which delves into this stuff in frightening detail....

Posted by Kathy Thanks to Elsinora  over at DailyKos for exposing what Ashcroft's defense against war crimes will be: John Ashcroft Yelled at Me Tonight. No Joke "Knox College is a liberal arts college, in every sense of the word "liberal." Out of approximately 1400 students, the...

Again, from the ACLU - which in these last 7 years has been one of the few organizations to fight for the legacy of this country and its Constitution - I got the following via presser (emphasis mine). The document-links are available at the end of the release: Newly Released Government Documents Sho...

Posted by Kathy I want to bring to your attention an important blog entry by bewart. Keep in mind the recent revelations that George W. Bush authorized the use of torture. See Larisa's post here: "This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story o...

Bush has said continuously that it is not us who should judge him, but history. "The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it." Neither Bush or anyone else has to wait for the judgment of tomorrow.  One of the most...