http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3598/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Watch That Pea

According to John Kelly, while all of the Democratic were vocal over the indictment of Scooter Libby and the nomination to the Supreme Court of Samuel Alito, the Bush administration is continuing to tighten its control over the national economic/political process.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605G.shtml

Bob Schildgen, on the grounds of moral and strategic responsibilities, urges the US to concede with the UN's appropriate figure of Iraq war reparations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605E.shtml

Rosa Brooks examines the Eastern European CIA "black site" prisons, of undisclosed locations, that use stress techniques she defines as torture.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605C.shtml



Torture: It's the new American way
LA Times
by Rosa Brooks

11/05/05

During the Cold War, we thought we knew what distinguished us from our Soviet bloc enemies. We did not have a gulag; we did not imprison and torture our enemies. But the war on terror has distorted our national values. We have used some of the same tactics we once decried. The Soviet Union's legacy of terror lives on, its tactics embraced by some of our leaders. Vice President Dick Cheney continues to insist that the McCain amendment, which prohibits U.S. personnel from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners, should not be applicable to the CIA. Somewhere in Moscow's Novodevichyi cemetery, Khrushchev is probably laughing inside his grave...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

With his future tied to the outcome of a criminal indictment in Texas, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) is using an extraordinary array of campaign tactics to try to win his court battle and save his political career.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605B.shtml

Kristof: In a country dispirited by political mud wrestling, there was a spark of hope the other day: a conference in which liberals discussed international issues with conservative Christians - and agreed!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605X.shtml

VIDEO SPECIAL: t r u t h o u t's Sari Gelzer reports from San Franciso's "The World Can't Wait" demonstration. Thousands took to the streets and heard speeches from Cindy Sheehan and others. TO was also in Los Angeles to view reports from both actions go to

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

For full coverage of the CIA identity leak investigation, go to our Special Coverage page: Mr. Fitzgerald Calling.

http://www.truthout.org/fitzgeraldcalling.shtml