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...

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...

Surprised? President Bush this morning declared emphatically that “most people around the world, they respect America,” strongly disagreeing with the idea that the country’s moral standing suffered during his time in office. He said he did what he thought was right in facing crises...

With Obama putting a priority on shutting down Guantanamo, rumors flying around about George W. Bush planning a sweeping pardon for everyone in his administration who took part in, planned, or knew about his torture regime; and the possibility of president-elect Obama authorizing a “truth and ...

Anyone can learn Dick Cheney's methods. Here is an executive summary....

Warning, this photo is incredibly disturbing. This was obtained by Wikileaks, which is a highly credible repository of classified documents, leaked to the editors there by whistle-blowers and government officials. There is a press pool of reporters who are given access to this tool.  Many intel...

B arbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Vice President Cheney on Nov. 1 for documents on the White House's reported watering down of testimony by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about global warming's harmful effec......

THE DARK SIDE: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE WAR ON TERROR TURNED INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS By Jane Mayer Doubleday, 392 pages, $27.50   In the autumn of 2000, I was visiting the United States and watched the televised debates with keen interest. Of the four men—two presidential candidates ...

Via Glenn, the Washington Post has a write-up on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on America’s Ideals. Here is what Mayer reveals in that book, which is due out this week: A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in ...

THE DARK SIDE The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer...