American Footprints

I’m actually starting to like this guy:

“I believe the time has come to consider a change to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” General David Petraeus told the Armed Services Committee today, in his most direct public comments about the policy. “I think it should be done in a thoughtful and deliberative matter that should include [...]

Mark Benjamin at Salon has a very disturbing piece that recounts details of the Bush administration’s infamous use of the waterboarding technique for torturing certain detainees accused of belonging to al-Qaeda:

Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the [...]