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Five days after 9/11, Dick Cheney famously said that to combat terrorism, "We'll have to work sort of the dark side." Mayer's new book argues that he meant what he said: "For the first time in its history," she writes, "the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name." The author, an investigative reporter for the New Yorker, meticulously demonstrates that the Administration, fully aware that as many as a third of the detainees in Guantánamo may have...
...early July, when a former government employee accused Dick Cheney's office of deleting from congressional testimony key statements about the impact of climate change on public health, White House staff countered that the science just wasn't strong enough to include. Not two weeks later, however, things already look different. University of Texas researchers have laid out some of the most compelling science to date linking climate change with adverse public-health effects: scientists predict a steady rise in the U.S. incidence of kidney stones - a medical condition largely brought on by dehydration - as the planet continues to warm...
...Washington Climate Censorship? A three-page letter by a former Environmental Protection Agency official charges that Vice President Dick Cheney's office excised six pages on the adverse health effects of global warming from expert testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2007. The White House said the pages were cut because they didn't match the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the environment committee, has called that statement a "lie," saying the cuts amounted to censorship...
...DICK GRASSO gets to keep $187.5 million compensation...
...day’s events were fun, entertaining and certainly eye-opening. While much of the parade was family-oriented, certain floats did whip it out when they could. With marriage now a possibility for same-sex partners, any Tom, Dick or Harry...