Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
By Joe Conason May 14, 2009
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The Iraqi president does his best Darth Vader imitation in HBO's miniseries "House of Saddam."
By Heather Havrilesky
December 5, 2008
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Cultural repression by the Muslim militias has waned slightly, but women still miss freedoms they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein.
By Anna Badkhen
August 14, 2008
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What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
By Joe Conason
August 8, 2008
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A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner
October 18, 2007
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"Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
By Alex Koppelman
October 16, 2007
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Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.
By Joe Conason
October 12, 2007
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Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
By Joe Conason
September 28, 2007
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Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 6, 2007
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Rove explains Cheney's 1994 view that overthrowing Saddam wouldn't be worth "very many" American lives.
By Tim Grieve
August 20, 2007
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Bush and his band of backers won't admit that -- but their strategy is already defined by the specter of American defeat.
By Peter Galbraith
July 18, 2007
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Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 7, 2007
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The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.
By Mohamad Bazzi
May 31, 2007
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The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle.
By Juan Cole
May 14, 2007
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The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 3, 2007
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To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 26, 2007
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Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 22, 2007
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The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 1, 2007
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An interview with the conservative polemicist, who accuses the cultural left of provoking al-Qaida's attack in his new book, "The Enemy at Home."
By Alex Koppelman
January 20, 2007
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And other highlights/lowlights from the president's interview with "60 MInutes."
By David Puner
January 16, 2007
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Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.
By Juan Cole
January 12, 2007
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The executed leader comes home.
By David Puner
January 9, 2007
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Another cell phone camera?
By David Puner
January 9, 2007
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Bush wanted his Iraq war to be a lofty Shakespearean history. He got a vicious, corpse-strewn revenge tragedy.
By Gary Kamiya
January 9, 2007
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Tony Snow says the thing that matters is that the condemned man was a killer.
By Tim Grieve
January 4, 2007
We tortured to justify war
Who wants to visit Saddam's house?
A hint of freedom for Iraqi women
New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right
Bush "at peace" waging war
The man who sold the war
"Seven countries in five years"
The war president "at peace" with himself
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein and 9/11
The Iraq war is lost
The Libby lobby's pardon campaign
How Bush's war bolstered Syria
Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
Libby's last disinformation campaign
How Libby became Cheney's pawn
How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza
Bush: "We're going forward"
Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?
Theater of blood
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald