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Articles Written by: LOOSEHEADPROP
A couple weeks back, I engaged in some rank speculation: maybe the use of torture did not come about as a result of a request from CIA officers in the field; maybe it was crammed down on them from above. I wondered if the OLC memos were manufactured to ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
26 Apr 2009
When 9-11 happened, New York City let out a bunch of no-bid emergency contracts to work on "the pile" at Ground Zero. The Commissioner of the NYC Department of Investigations, the late and great Ed Kurianksy, went to then Mayor Giuliani and insisted ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
24 Apr 2009
The New York Times is hot on the trail of why the feds, who normally have more important things to do, were investigation a prostitution ring where there were no aggravating factors that we know of (like drug distribution. violence, human trafficking, ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
23 Apr 2009
“..Dr. Mitchell helped persuade C.I.A. officials that Qaeda members were fundamentally different”.. “..people of this ilk”? One of the fundamentally wrong things about this entire business is the wholesale wand-waving, turning people into ‘things’, ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
22 Apr 2009
As discussed in Part 1 of the Chronicles, US District Judge Jed Rakoff is a man who knows a lot about the First Amendment, and a lot about the dirty laundry on Wall Street. So, it was fortuitous (or ironic, depending on your point of view) that the ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
22 Apr 2009
Way back in the mists of time, er 2001, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the the federal district court SDNY issued a decision unsealing some court documents so that a news outlet, TheStreet.com, could have access to them for news gathering and disseminating ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
21 Apr 2009
I agree with your analysis; of course, we both could be full of it, but that makes the most sense to me. I think he’s holding off prosecuting the higher ranking slimeballs for political reasons, but I still harbor hopes that he’ll come through ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
17 Apr 2009
I’ve generally made the case that the purpose was to get the victims to say whatever the interrogators fed to them to say, in order to provide propaganda material that could be released to the media, and then used by the media to fan ever great levels ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
16 Apr 2009
Her grandfather was an ambassador, her dad was president, her mother was First Lady, her Aunt Jean was an ambassador. I can’t imagine there’s anyone in America better suited to the job. I only despair that she’ll be posted to the Vatican; I’d rather ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
10 Apr 2009
oh I don’t know lhp, you say it pretty good your own self. but Professor was havin none of it last night was he ? all bidness he was
(I’d add, that if you’re not willing to treat ‘terrorists’ as criminals, then you’re not doing your job, either. I ...
From LOOSEHEADPROP,
Firedoglake,
24 Mar 2009
