Doug Liman's last effort behind the camera was the Valerie Plame drama "Fair Game," which didn't quite become the box office hot button smash or Oscar contender it seemed like it would be on paper. And while the director is currently lining up his next f

Having directed big-budget action thrillers like “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” Doug Liman is taking a grassroots approach in a new project meant to raise awareness about real-life violence, politics and torture. The American Civil Liberti

Valerie Plame, whose career as an undercover for the CIA ended when the Bush White House blew her cover in 2003, comes to the UC Irvine School of Law Feb. 17 to give a free talk about her experiences. Now going by Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, to reflect h

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has severed its ties with Planned Parenthood. As a result, … Read More. You may have noticed that most of the presidential debates are moderated by men, which gives female … Read More. In 2001, a friend who was

Well, let’s see. During the early days of the Clinton administration, we had the sad spectacle of Treasury aide Josh Steiner telling Senators investigating the Whitewater real estate deals and the Resolution Trust Corporation that that he written untrue

Maybe we should tell Americans to stay out of Somalia. Good for the seals, but I would be interested in what R. Paul thinks of this kind of mission. Hmm, I'd heard SEAL Team guys didn't like to jump. The Wash Times said they were SF, so that may be who d

Have they forgotten how angry that Valerie Plame incident, and plenty of other political witch hunts like it, made them? They call it the Washington blood sport, don't they? Well, take a look in the mirror, Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee o

The purpose of presenting the photo lineups to the detainees was to identify the alleged torturers in order to make the case that the detainees' statements were coerced. As multiple sources told Mother Jones in 2010, the defense lawyers didn't know which

A former CIA officer is facing decades in prison after being charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the latest in an unprecedented Obama administration crackdown against national security leaks. John Kiriakou, who made news

The charges cap a three-year investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, into how photographs of covert CIA officers involved in the interrogation of terror suspects ended up in the Guantanamo prison cell of one of the accused 9/11

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Prosecutors working out procedures for handling secret evidence in the trial of an alleged Al Qaida chieftain invoked a surprising precedent Wednesday — the 2007 felony trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former Vice Preside

On Friday, the White House engaged in its customary document dump, mostly secure in the knowledge that a lazy establishment press would, as usual, pay it little heed and then declare it to be old news by Monday morning. 10/25/2010 — Solyndra CEO writes t

As part of the RICO conspiracy, evidence also showed that defendants kept victims in fear of the gang and its leaders by enforcing what it referred to as an “SOS” -- shoot on sight or smash on sight -- order against Latin King members who cooperated with

The New York felon whom U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wired against Chicago's Tony Rezko got three years probation that just ended two years early. To refresh your memory concerning the mole named John Thomas: in the late 1990s, Bernard T. Barton, Jr.

Ed: I think people miss the Clinton years because the economy was strong and growing. Lots more people had jobs. And the Republican Congress was more focused on the sideshow attempt to destroy Clinton through the Lewinsky scandals rather than their curr

The Shell Game is in full swing. Watch closely; the hands move quickly and it takes a sharp mind, quick eyes and cat-like instincts to keep up with all the movement going on right in front of us. Much has been written and will still be written about the

Twenty-four-year-old blamed for largest leak of state secrets in American history Manning's defence claims he created female alter-ego 'Breanna Manning'Also claim his position in an environment hostile to homosexuality caused mental and emotional problem

This week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), arguably Congress’ biggest cheerleaders of this tragedy, delivered a lengthy tirade condemning President Obama for ending the conflict and bringing U.S. troops home, arguing, among other things, “All I will say is t