Новости за 12.03.2017

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams “The only question is why the president would make up such a thing,” says panel member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Trump and his White House continue to attack the credibility of the institutions that come up with facts and arguments they don’t like.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment At the very time when the Trump administration wants to turn its back on the world’s migrants, the globe’s worst crises have accelerated.

The Chicago native takes matters into his own hands after a disheartening meeting with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Camp Delta, a CIA detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (Screen shot via The Washington Post) The Trump administration is invoking a rarely used legal rule called the state secret privilege to keep Central Intelligence Agency officials from testifying in a federal lawsuit about the CIA’s interrogation methods. The state secret privilege allows the government to withhold evidence from legal proceedings on the basis that the sensitive evidence would put national security at risk. The New York Times reports... Читать дальше...

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