AP BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — An “eternal” flame at Bullhead City’s new veterans memorial park that lasted only until city officials received a $961 gas bill has been relighted after complaints by veterans groups. The Medal of Honor Memorial at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Park alongside the Colorado River was lighted on Veterans Day [...]
NYT Editorial Far too often, military veterans find themselves desperately short of the information they need as they make the torturous quest for benefits within one of this country’s most daunting bureaucracies, the Department of Veterans Affairs. Officials say help is on the way, but administrators are forever promising to streamline procedures for an era [...]
By LINDA SASLOW FINDING a job is hard enough these days, and even harder for returning military veterans. Now Thomas R. Suozzi, the Nassau County executive, wants to put servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at the front of the line for job openings. “Although in today’s economy it’s hard to foresee how [...]
Op-Ed Contributor By LAWRENCE M. WEIN Stanford, Calif. This question is key to determining how large an investment the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to make in diagnosing and treating the problem. The United States Army’s Mental Health Advisory Team, which conducted a survey of more than 1,000 soldiers and marines in September 2006, found [...]
Op-Ed Columnist By CHARLES M. BLOW Published: April 17, 2009 The United States Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued a report last week suggesting that current political and economic conditions are energizing right-wing extremist groups, that many of these groups follow extremely conservative ideologies and that some may seek to recruit [...]
By Cate Doty Even as they watch their endowments dwindle and financial aid applications surge, private colleges and universities are deciding whether they can afford to participate in a new G.I. Bill plan that splits the cost of private tuition with the government, allowing veterans to study at private colleges for free. The post-Sept. 11 [...]
AP CONCORD, N.H. -The ceremony came at the end of a three-month reintegration process designed to help soldiers adapt to life as civilians. Brigadier General Stephen Burritt said soldiers and families should not underestimate the challenge of adapting to life at work and home. "Now we’re transitioning from being that warrior to being a citizen," [...]
By MELISSA NELSON / Associated Press Writer Published: April 26th, 2009 03:12 PMLast Modified: April 26th, 2009 05:48 PM NICEVILLE, Fla. – More than 300 employees of a troubled Sheriff’s Office in Florida gathered Sunday night to hear first hand how two of their own were killed a day earlier by a National Guard soldier [...]
by Mary Beth Sheridan $350 million effort aimed at drug war. The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military’s role in the drug war, according to Obama administration officials. The [...]
by Steve Weissman Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release more of the torture memos. "One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got [...]
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer If the Pentagon’s instructors haven’t been teaching assassination at the School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, Ga., is it just coincidental that so many of its star pupils graduate to become mass murderers? Take the strange case of Francisco del Cid Diaz, an SOA-educated second lieutenant in the [...]
by Warren Strobel Washington – The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who’s now retired, came in a new [...]
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as "the General." This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his [...]
By Joe Byrne Shane Murphy is a sailor trying to get his land-legs on home turf. Less than a week ago, Somali pirates took his ship’s captain hostage, and Murphy took over at the helm while a hostage-rescue team freed his captain. Murphy told his father that the crew used “brute force” to overpower the [...]
Raw Story Another voice has joined the chorus calling for federal judge and ‘torture memo’ author Jay Bybee to either resign or be impeached. John Podesta, who oversaw Obama’s transition team and was former president Clinton’s chief of staff, said Sunday that "a simple matter would be to remove [Bybee] from office." Support for impeachment [...]
In the 100 days since the GOP were turned out from office it has become the rule and not the exception that the party of NO have stood in the way of cabinet level appointments, not the least of which was the nomination of Mz Duckworth and Iraqi double amputee to a position at the [...]
by Sandy Cook, Staff Writer “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” – “Harsh measures” “Torture” – Which is it? What is it? So many people are writing about the torture issue that I hesitate to weigh in. Many of them are much more qualified than I to speak to the current situation. I’ll try to limit myself to [...]
By Rick Thorne It’s now commonplace for LIBERALS to VERBALLY SHRED those of us with SPIRITUAL MORALS. God fearing Veterans and Americans who still believe in God are being systematically destroyed by the LEFT! These lost individuals have nothing to believe in except the fascist obama! READ ON FOR THE REST OF THE STORY>>>>>> Obama’s administration [...]
Agence France-Presse The WHO warned Saturday that the virus had the potential to become a pandemic, labeling the current outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern." HONG KONG — Asian health officials went on alert Sunday as a flu strain that has killed dozens of people in Mexico appeared to have spread to [...]
Sadly, I cannot legitimize my crimes with great documents from a legal team like Jay Bybee (now a federal judge), John Yoo (now teaching college) William Haynes (now working for Chevron), Alberto Gonzales, David Addington and Douglas Feith. But I have ways to recruit loyal servants who will insist my acts were pure and legal. [...]
BBC- Barack Obama was elected on a message of change. Now he is in office, change is expected both in foreign and domestic policy. Here the BBC’s team in Washington tracks developments in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency. As we approach President Obama’s 100th day, do you have any questions for our [...]
Lincoln Mitchell Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia University The information that is being released now regarding interrogations of suspected terrorists conducted by the US during the last several years makes it clear, for those who did not yet understand, that America does not torture, except of course when it does. The [...]
Trey Ellis Novelist, Screenwriter, and Assistant Professor at Columbia University What moral scale could the administration and Harry Reid possibly be using for not wanting to adequately and immediately determine which former government officials either sanctified or urged the CIA to torture? If these same former officials had sexually harassed their subordinates or falsified travel [...]
James Moore Author, Communications Consultant, Novelist Manque’, Genial Wiseacre The man at the airport bar was watching Dick Cheney on FOX News. (No matter where I travel, FOX News is on the monitors, which explains much about our nation’s present predicament.) "I gotta admit," the man said. "I agree with him. I don’t like him [...]
Joseph A. Palermo Author/Associate Professor of History Liz and Dick Cheney, Bill Bennett, Ari Fleischer, and countless other commentators have saturated the public airwaves of late ever since the Obama Administration decided to make public the Bush torture memos. These apologists for war crimes have been jawboning the issue from every conceivable angle. Why are [...]
Kristen Breitweiser 9/11 widow and activist Once again, it would seem that the Bush Administration and their minions will be permitted to wipe the slate clean of their past criminal acts. This time around it will be for torture. Republicans are not stupid, folks. When they intend to stretch the parameters of power, break the [...]
Jason Linkins jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting From DC I had to figure that Roger Cohen, writing in this morning’s New York Times, was going to lose me the minute he began: Language is lethal. The Bush administration’s legal memos opening the way to torture are a reminder of the intimate link between a bureaucrat’s lawyerly [...]
Paul Begala CNN political commentator In a CNN debate with Ari Fleischer, I said the United States executed Japanese war criminals for waterboarding. My point was that it is disingenuous for Bush Republicans to argue that waterboarding is not torture and thus illegal. It’s kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime [...]
Current and former U.S. officials say the failure to carefully examine the value of ‘enhanced’ methods such as waterboarding — despite calls to do so as early as 2003 — was part of a broader trend. By Greg Miller April 26, 2009 Reporting from Washington — The CIA used an arsenal of severe interrogation [...]
By John Byrne The Central Intelligence Agency must turn over records regarding detainee interrogation tapes the agency destroyed in an alleged effort to protect the identity of its officers. A federal judge rejected the CIA’s attempt to withhold records relating to the agency’s destruction of 92 videotapes that depicted interrogation of CIA prisoners in a [...]
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