Day January 22, 2006

Army officer guilty in torture death

A military jury late Saturday convicted an Army interrogator of negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi general who had been stuffed face-first into a sleeping bag. Prior to that, he’d been brutally beaten for two days. Every American…

Abramoff’s past as South African spy

According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa’s apartheid era security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff’s connections to white supremacists who use Confederate heritage…