Monday, March 05, 2007
Surgeon General Kiley: Walter Reed isn't his first coverup.The Blog | Art Levine: Lt. General "Coverup" Kiley: From Abused Detainees to Neglected Soldiers | The Huffington Post In a piece in Huffington Post, I look at Kiley's disagraceful legacy of hiding the ill-treatment of both detainees and soldiers, pointing out:
But the Walter Reed scandal isn't the first time that Kiley has covered up abuses. He was a point person for the Army's coverup of the torture and degrading treatment of detainees by health professionals, including psychologists, at Guantanamo and other unaccountable military detention sites. He commissioned whitewashed "studies" of the problem that concluded that there wasn't any abuse abetted by health professionals -- even though his investigators never talked to any detainees or their attorneys.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
See Bob Woodruff's powerful report on recovering from traumatic brain injury in Iraq.ABC News: For the Latest Breaking News, Turn to World News
Bill Maher cites Art Levine's chemical security article.
The Blog | Bill Maher: Philip Perry, Treasonous Fucker | The Huffington Post
Five years after 9/11, you figure our government would have already solved the obvious security concerns, like protecting our chemical plants or keeping razors away from Britney. But we've failed miserably. Why?
Meet Philip Perry. Already, I can tell you don't like him. Because his name's Philip Perry, which sounds like the name of a guy who would screw the common interest on behalf of powerful corporations.
And if you guessed that's what he did for a living, you'd be right.
As documented in this incisive Washington Monthly article by Art Levine, after 9/11 the Environmental Protection Agency looked at chemical plants across the U.S. and concluded that at least 700 sites posed a potential threat to kill or injure over 100,000 people if attacked. In neocon math, that's over thirty 9/11s.
The Blog | Bill Maher: Philip Perry, Treasonous Fucker | The Huffington Post
