Archive for the ‘military’ Category

Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.Read the full story

Think Progress » U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.”Read the full story

Bush’s assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

At President Bush’s July 11 press conference a significant exchange took place that has received very little media attention. Edwin Chen, who writes for Bloomberg.com, asked Bush, “How hard is it for you to conduct the war without popular support? Do you ever have trouble balancing between doing what you ...