Lisa Baron and the DoD?

I wonder why the Department of Defense is reading this blog? Hmmmm.
The last time I got military or government hits like this on my site was when I had a rough draft of a chapter of my dissertation online. It was an analysis of pulp thrillers on bioterrorism. I understood why that might have [...]

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More than 750

That’s the number of laws that Bush has claimed authority to disobey.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ”whistle-blower” protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
Legal scholars say the scope and [...]

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Tracing Torture

Here is a brief excerpt from testimony that claims the authorization to use torture in Iraq came from pretty high up. Read the whole article at TomDispatch.com and Truthout.org.
“Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture as Policy From Guantanamo to Iraq,” by Dahr Jamail
While President Bush has regularly claimed - as with reporters in [...]

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