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The head of the CIA has accused former US Vice-President Dick Cheney of concealing an intelligence programme from Congress, a top US senator says.

The existence of the programme, set up after 9/11, was hidden for eight years and even now its nature is not known.

Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein confirmed CIA chief Leon Panetta told Congressional committees he had abandoned the project on hearing of it.

TERROR WATCH

Michael Isikoff

Sanctioned Degradation

A new Senate report says Bush officials quickly abandoned 'humane' interrogation techniques.

Apr 21, 2009 | Updated: 10:06 p.m. ET Apr 21, 2009

VP to Lead U.S. Nonproliferation Efforts

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The job of leading the push for the Obama administration's nuclear nonproliferation program will fall to Vice President Joseph Biden, the Boston Globe reported today.

The tasks at hand including promoting security of nuclear material across the globe and pushing ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty through the U.S. Senate.

But, first I want to ask whether it's entirely a co-incidence that Jonathan Turley, the George Washington University professor and attorney, who's making regular appearances on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" to support the call for prosecuting the Gang of Torture, has now surfaced as Dr. Al-Arian's attorney.

Chris Hedges, formerly the Mid-east Bureau Chief for the New York Times reports on the latest turn of events over the fold.

From The Times

August 6, 2008

'Al-Qaeda woman' Aafia Siddiqui' in court on attempted murder charge
James Bone in New York and Zahid Hussain in Islamabad

An American-educated neuroscientist who is the only woman accused of working for al-Qaeda’s top leadership appeared in court in New York last night after her capture in Afghanistan.

The US Government alleges that Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani mother of three with a biology degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in behavioural neuroscience from Brandeis University, near Boston, is married to the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man who claims to have organised the September 11 terror attacks in 2001.

a bunch of left wing losers who were picked while in school and slinging the BS that you do somehow makes you feel better because your never had parents that supported you.

Did Gregg Conceal Donors Who Received Millions In TSA Contracts While He Served As Aprops Chair?

Mark Nickolas on Feb 4, 2009

This week, President Obama nominated Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) as his Commerce secretary. Many Democrats and some Republicans aren't thrilled by the pick. For Democrats, Gregg's record in the Senate shows a strong conservative philosophy that is destined to clash with labor and side with big business. For Republicans, they see yet another open Senate seat in what has become deep blue territory (Obama won NH by 10 points and Jeanne Shaheen (D) defeated incumbent Sen. John Sununu (R) by 6 points).

Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.

Much later, when Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense for Bush the Younger, addressed Congress, it became clear that what was meant was that from now on instead of Old Europe, the New World, and, specifically, the behemoth sitting astride the North American continent, would be giving the orders and the nations of the world would have to do what they were told.

No doubt, Secretary Donley is not responsible for the continuing turmoil nor the persistent aspirations to grandeur.

Air Force Seeks More Air Space Over Eastern Nevada

Posted: Dec 22, 2008 01:07 PM

Environmental groups are opposing an Air Force proposal to extend a supersonic operations area by 1.6 million acres in eastern Nevada....

Opponents say operations would jump from about 400 flights per year to as many as 9,500....