Day January 12, 2006

Leak of the week: More CIA torture prisons

Swiss intelligence whistleblower releases documentary evidence of CIA torture prisons The Swiss government has acknowledged the authenticity of a fax leaked to the newspaper SonntagsBlick which appears to confirm the existence of secret CIA interrogation camps in Romania, Ukraine, Kosovo,…

Say it ain’t so, Al

  Yes, that’s "Antiwar Lite" Al Franken posing with an attack dog – at Abu Ghraib, no less. Could there be a more perfect example of the conflicted, muddled ‘response’ to the war by psuedo-liberals than this? From Body &…

How Abramoff funded the anti-gay agenda

From Doug Ireland One aspect of the corruption and bribery mega-scandal shaking Washington that is swirling around conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff (left), and which hasn’t gotten much mass media attention: how a lot of dough from Abramoff-controlled slush funds went…