“We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides,…declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.”

Iraq’s mortality rate in the year before the invasion was 5.5 deaths per 1,000 people; in the post-invasion period it was 13.3 deaths per 1,000. The difference between these rates was used to calculate “excess deaths.” - Washington Post

“It’s just a total rollback of everything this country has stood for.” “Why did 9/11 happen on George Bush’s watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen”?

Patrick Fitzgerald knew the identity of the leaker from his very first day in the special counsel’s chair, but kept the inquiry open for nearly two more years before indicting I. Lewis Libby on obstruction charges.

A scientist at the EPA has written a letter to Hillary Clinton and other members of the New York congressional delegation blasting the EPA for hiding dangerous toxins from Ground Zero workers in the aftermath of 9/11.