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Category: War on Terror

  • Pentagon Decides International Law Applies to US

    2 Iraq posts in a row. I know. But this is important. The Pentagon has now decided to treat detainees within the requirements of the Geneva Conventions: “The Pentagon has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions.”  SCOTUS found that Geneva Common Article […]

  • CIA Stops Looking for Bin Laden

    The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The realignment reflects a […]

  • Congress Considering Adding MySpace to Data Retention Requiments

    Again, What about the children! and The terrorists will win! are invoked: In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children–and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday’s hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that […]

  • Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)

    Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]

  • Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast

    Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast Dr. Eric from drericsblog.com and I work out the world’s problems.

  • UK: 1 Surveilliance Camera for Every 14 Citizens

    Coming soon to a nation near you: It’s not a silver bullet. Take the example of the Brixton bomber [David Copeland, who planted three bombs in London in 1999]. The police gathered all the CCTV footage from all the cameras in Brixton, but it took 50 detectives over 20 days to plough through all the […]

  • Guantanamo Admiral Calls Detainee Suicides ‘Acts of War'

    Try to keep down your breakfast: They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said. “They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.” And now for the smartest thing I’ve heard all […]

  • US to Trash Geneva Convention Article

    The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards. Even when so many experts explain how torture doesn’t […]

  • Andymatic 016 – Gay podcast

    Andymatic 016 Gay Podcast – Includes your guide to the 2006 and 2008 elections, FISA, NSA and a lesson in Tagalog.

  • CIA Used UAE Planes in Global Kidnapping

    (Via Newsvine) To all those who thought that the UAE cannot be trusted to run American ports or help in the fight against terrorism, more evidence of the the close behind the scenes cocoperation between Dubai and Washington. After the DP World fiasco, America needs to take better care of its friends, especially those who […]