Dick Cheney

The politics of David Hicks’ release from Guantánamo confirmed: plea bargain arranged between Cheney and Howard

23.10.07

As if there was any doubt that politics, rather than justice, drives much of the US administration’s Guantánamo policy, Harper’s magazine reports that a US military officer has shed light on the murky process involved in the release of Australian detainee David Hicks from Guantánamo in May.
Hicks, a convert to Islam who was sold to [...]

The Guantánamo Files: The Talking Dog interview

18.9.07

Andy Worthington is a London-based historian, who has written three books on civil rights issues, including, most recently, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, scheduled for release in October, which is the most detailed and specific account to date of the capture and provenance of the over 700 [...]

Good riddance, Gonzales, but don’t forget Cheney and Addington, the true architects of torture

28.8.07

OK, so the departing Attorney General was not as malevolent as some made out: more a willing pawn of his old friend George W. and his guiding brain, the recently departed Karl Rove, and, moreover, of the genuinely malevolent Dick Cheney, and his close associate David Addington. The notorious memorandum, in January 2002, which paved [...]

House Democrats take on Cheney over Guantánamo and Iraq

4.8.07

In an update from Congressional Quarterly, just two days after Vice President Dick Cheney shuffled out from under his rock to declare on CNN that he thought that proposals to close Guantánamo were a bad idea and that operational plans for Iraq were not the business of Congress, staff writer John Donnelly reports that “House [...]

Dick Cheney: more horrors from the ‘Vice-President for Torture’

26.6.07

Required reading this week is Barton Gellman and Jo Becker’s four-part series on Dick Cheney for the Washington Post, which highlights the Vice President’s role as the malevolent power behind the American imperial throne. While this is not exactly news to anyone with an inquiring mind, the authors –- in interviews with over 200 people [...]

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