raise your hand if you're surprised by this

anyone? come on, anyone? anyone at all surprised by this? SOMEONE must be surprised by this? janie, you're in the first grade and i'm guessing you don't read the newspaper every morning or listen to the nightly news. janie, EVEN YOU'RE not surprised by this? i'm shocked (notttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt)

Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Detainee Abuse Ignored
Tactics Continued Against Detainees

By Carrie Johnson and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers
Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security Council but prompted no effort to curb questioning that the agents considered ineffective and possibly illegal, according to an internal audit released yesterday.
Reports that Guantanamo detainees were being subjected to extreme temperatures, religious abuses and nude interrogation were conveyed at White House meetings of senior officials in 2003, yet these questionable tactics remained in use, a lengthy report by the Justice Department's inspector general concluded.
In one instance, colleagues of then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft reported that he personally aired concerns about Defense Department strategy toward a particular detainee with Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, while other Justice managers shared similar fears with the council's legal adviser in November 2003, the report said. .........

WHY WHY WHY

are we allowing king george and his court to continue to run us (and everyone else we come into contact with) into the ground?
the news is NEVER good. NEVER
U.S. Notes Limited Progress in Afghan War
Strategic Goals Unmet, White House Concludes

By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer
A White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan has concluded that wide-ranging strategic goals that the Bush administration set for 2007 have not been met, even as U.S. and NATO forces have scored significant combat successes against resurgent Taliban fighters, according to U.S. officials.
The evaluation this month by the National Security Council followed an in-depth review in late 2006 that laid out a series of projected improvements for this year, including progress in security, governance and the economy. But the latest assessment concluded that only "the kinetic piece" -- individual battles against Taliban fighters -- has shown substantial progress, while improvements in the other areas continue to lag, a senior administration official said. ...........

we are the american people

YOU work for US. WE DEMAND the september report on iraq be delivered in public AND be honest. WE DEMAND IT and we should NOT roll over and shut up if those two conditions are not met. we ALL know how things are going over there. yesterday more than 250 dead in a bombing. the benchmarks we've set are NOT being met. the war is going on and on and on. we were never in any danger from iraq. our men and women are now. it's the fault of our administration. they are accountable for thousands of american lives and perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives in the middle east.

we demand truth AND justice for ALL. do NOT allow them to bullshit us again

An Early Clash Over Iraq Report
Specifics at Issue as September Nears


By Jonathan Weisman and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers

Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead that the Bush administration's progress report on the Iraq war should be delivered to Congress by the secretaries of state and defense.
White House officials did not deny making the proposal in informal talks with Congress, but they said yesterday that they will not shield the commanding general in Iraq and the senior U.S. diplomat there from public congressional testimony required by the war-funding legislation President Bush signed in May. "The administration plans to follow the requirements of the legislation," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in response to questions yesterday........