Like father, like daughter. Liz Cheney is now fronting another one of the right wing’s outrageous smears. The issue at hand is the conduct of nine lawyers who, prior to their current service in the Department of Justice, represented detainees at Guantanamo. Cheney has dubbed them the “Gitmo Nine,” and openly questioned their patriotism. It [...]

So, Obama thought he could wave his magic wand a close the Guantanamo detention facility. Not so fast. The Republican fear mongers, who traded on the terror of terror so successfully, have succeeded in spooking Senate Democrats into blocking the closure. The fear of a voter backlash if detainees are incarcerated in the United States [...]

So the argument over torture goes on. Dennis C. Blair, Obama’s own national intelligence director, said in a memo that harsh interrogation techniques did provide some valuable information about al Quaeda. This was all Dick Cheney, the former administration’s self-appointed attack dog, needed to enter the fray once more, justifying the unjustifiable and claiming that [...]