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Ray McGovern | I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:11:21 -0800

 

 

 

 

Ray McGovern returns award medallion to CIA in protest of torture; Bush

seeking to outsource tax collecting; 2002 letter claims al Qaeda

infiltrated UAE government; Bush administration launches TV ads to

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Ray McGovern | I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206A.shtml

Ray McGovern writes a letter to the House Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence: As a matter of conscience, I am returning the

Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me for " especially

commendable

service " during my 27-year career in CIA. The issue is torture, which

inhabits the same category as rape and slavery - intrinsically evil. I do

not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in

torture.

 

 

Al-Qaeda Infiltrated UAE Government

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206B.shtml

We are focusing today on one sentence in a two-page US document

officially known as number AFGP-2002-603856. It is a 2002 letter in

which al

Qaeda says that it has infiltrated United Arab Emirates security and

other agencies. It was a warning siren document that should have raised

urgent concerns at the highest level of the US government. President Bush

and his entire team initially dozed through the alarm and apparently

expected we all would, too.

 

 

Bush Seeking to Outsource Tax Collecting

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206C.shtml

Treasury union members gathered outside the Internal Revenue Service

building on Wednesday to protest a controversial measure to privatize

some tax debt collection.

 

 

Burying the Lancet Report

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206D.shtml

Over a year ago an international team of epidemiologists completed a

" cluster sample survey " of civilian casualties in Iraq. Its findings

contradicted central elements of what politicians and journalists had

presented to the US public and the world. Soon after the study was

published, US and British officials launched a concerted campaign to

discredit

its authors and marginalize their findings without seriously addressing

the validity of their methods or presenting any evidence to challenge

their conclusions. Today the continuing aerial bombardment of Iraq is

still a dark secret to most Americans and the media present the same

general picture of the war, focusing on secondary sources of violence.

 

 

TV Ads Push Iraq War Support

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206E.shtml

In an early sign of the imagery that may flood the nation's television

screens as congressional elections approach this fall, a conservative

political group closely aligned with the Bush administration has

launched a blitz of television ads to shore up sagging public support

for the

war in Iraq.

 

 

Saudi Group Alleges NSA Eavesdropping

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206F.shtml

Documents cited in federal court by a defunct Islamic charity may

provide the first detailed evidence of US residents being spied upon by

President Bush's secret eavesdropping program, according to the

organization's lawsuit and a source familiar with the case.

 

 

Stacy Bannerman | Not One More Dime, Not One More Life

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206G.shtml

Stacy Bannerman testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee

for Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs: Brings the troops

home now. Take care of them when they get here. And never again send our

soldiers to fight in a war based on lies. Congress has tried to cut

funding for veterans, and has grossly underestimated the needs of the

soldiers returning from Iraq. You want to take care of our veterans? Quit

making new ones.

 

 

Americans' " Internal Enemy "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206H.shtml

The US Surgeon General warns that obesity is overtaking terrorism as a

threat to the American public. But others contend that fear-mongering

over obesity is " a big fat lie. "

 

 

NOW | Washington Spin Machine

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206I.shtml

NOW goes inside the world of lobbyists and the Washington spin machine

with novelist Christopher Buckley.

 

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