July 13, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
By FRANK RICH
We know what a criminal White House looks like from "The Final Days" Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's classic account of Richard Nixon's unraveling. The cauldron of lies, paranoia...
By Ray McGovernDecember 27, 2007
“There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from...
I'm sure General Hayden would like us to take him at his word. But who on earth will believe the CIA has 'reformed' itself, when even the mainstream press reports blatantly illegal acts like extraordinary rendition? The worst abuses we never hear about.
The unfortunate truth is that the prescriptive atmosphere in Washington permits ANY abuse of human and civil rights so long as it 'advances' the 'war on terror'. According to this sick mindset, anything LESS than torturing, kidnapping, illegally surveilling and stripping people of their basic human rights would be doing 'less than everything' we could to fight terror! It's true legacy is to radicalize hundreds of thousands of potential terrorists and to ensure that Americans are hated for generations to come.
Posted 12/31/05 at MSNBC.com.
Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? * 183943 responses
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