Tag: George W. Bush

The NSA & 9/11: Failure to Exploit the US-Yemen Hub & Beyond

Just one of the Legacies of 9/11 by Kevin Fenton Boilingfrogs Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated...

From 2002: George W. Bush on bin Laden–‘I truly am not that concerned about him’

BUSH : "We haven't heard from him in a long time. ... Terror is bigger than one person. And he's just -- he's a person who's now been marginalized. ... I just...

Extraordinary Conflict of Interest: Bush Cousin Presides Over Federal Court Case Against Former Bush Administration Officials

Published: Thursday, 7 Apr 2011 | 7:30 AM ET CNBC.com NEW YORK, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Confounding lawyers and legal scholars all over the world, Judge John Walker, first cousin of former President...

Military Tribunal May Hide 9/11 Motives

By Ray McGovern April 6, 2011 Consortiumnews.com The Obama administration's decision to use a military tribunal rather than a federal criminal court to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others means the real motives...

Obama’s new Gitmo policy is a lot like Bush’s old policy

By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 8, 2011; A02 Washingtonpost.com It was another important moment in the education of Barack Obama. He began his presidency with a pledge to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay...

U.S. Justice v. the world

By Glenn Greenwald February 18, 2011 Salon.com In March, 2002, American citizen Jose Padilla was arrested in Chicago and publicly accused by then-Attorney-General John Ashcroft of being "The Dirty Bomber." Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to a...