The Washington Post has some excellent coverage and graphics about the Senate torture report:
Hayden’s testimony vs. the Senate report
The 10 most harrowing excerpts from the CIA interrogation report
Pay special attention to #2. According to the report, President Bush wasn’t briefed about the enhanced interrogation program until 2006. Doesn’t mention Cheney, though.
A Senate report on the use of torture by the CIA during the GW Bush administration is due to be released this week.
2005 cartoon from the archives:
The Washington Post has an editorial about how military-grade weapons have transformed American police forces.
It never ceases to amaze me how short-sighted Americans are when talking about religious freedom. A county in Florida is revisiting a policy of allowing bibles to be distributed at schools after a group exerted its religious rights by wanting to distribute coloring books featuring cartoon characters performing satanic rituals and drawing pentagrams.
Separation of Church and State protects your religious freedoms, people.
From the archives
It’s Vladimir Putin’s birthday today. It’s also the 8th anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
From the archives: