Morning Newsdome: The complicity of compromise
May 15, 2009 at 10:47 am by Alejandro A. Leal in News
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at last summer's Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
- The complicity of compromise: How much did Nancy Pelosi know about torture in 2002? Better yet, how much did she want to know?
- Regardless, don’t take your eyes off the ball: What if the Bush administration’s intent was to torture detainees into “confessing” the missing link between Sadaam and 9/11?
- In 1998, Congress opened an investigation into a presidential blow job, but waterboarding isn’t worth the trouble.
- Meanwhile: Obama administration will restart military tribunals at Guantanamo for a select number of detainees.
- On this side of the border: Data from Mexico suggests migration to U.S. has plummeted.
- Social media revolution: A YouTube video of a slain attorney — claiming a conspiracy involving the Guatemalan president of murdering him days prior to the actual killing took place — and the subsequent arrest of a Twitter user, has thrown the Guatemalan government into chaos.
- Monopolize much? When the world’s biggest search engine collapses for two hours, effectively bringing the entire Internet to a screeching halt, that’s a bad sign.
- Play her off, keyboard cat: Girl opts out of wearing underwear for high school yearbook photo shoot for concern over panty lines… aaaand yup, you guessed it.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
May 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Lewinsky was found as part of another investigation, but being factual isn’t all that important when making a snarky point.
BTW, why investigate Bush about waterboarding? They have said who said it was ok, why they thought so and who was affected.
May 17th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Waterboarding isn’t the alpha and omega of the Bush administration’s war crimes, but being factual isn’t all that important when making a snarky point, is it Dale?
BTW, over 100 detainees died in custody, and at least two dozen of them were confirmed homicides. I know that doesn’t matter to you because “people die all the time,” but believe it or not, some people consider that to be an issue serious enough for further inquiry.