As the author of official memoranda seeking to justify torture, warrant-free wiretapping, detention without trial, and other expressions of lawless power, John Yoo appears to be enjoying his 15 minutes of infamy. Profiled in the mainstream press, lionized and vilified in the opinion media, Yoo is experiencing a burst of publicity that can only enhance […]
Joe Conason
Joe Conason,
The American Prospect's investigative editor, is a national correspondent and columnist for The New York Observer and a columnist for Salon.com. He is the author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth and the co-author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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They’re Ba-ack
In August, on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, the White House released a three-sentence presidential statement. “For 70 years,” it read, “Social Security has been a vital program and helped millions of America’s seniors in retirement. The Social Security system is sound for today’s seniors, but there is a […]
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Rove on the Ropes
From the very beginning, the white house propaganda assault against former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a longtime officer in the CIA, looked like the work of Karl Rove. The malicious leaks against the Wilsons — which have led to the appointment of a special prosecutor and the imprisonment […]
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Public Broadcast(igation)
For many years, conservatives have warned us that someday the commissars of political correctness would run amok and impose their opinions on us with our own tax dollars. What they didn’t tell us is that they would become those commissars, and that their politically correct orthodoxy would be the Republican Party line. But that’s exactly […]