Pete Buttigieg is headlining this year’s SXSW conference. South Bend’s former mayor and the current Transportation Secretary is one of several keynote speakers. “U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will emphasize SXSW’s continued focus on how technological innovations are transforming mobility,” says Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer for SXSW. Buttigieg was sworn in as President Biden’s…
If Representative Jackie Walorski had an inkling of honor – or respect for the people of Indiana’s 2nd Congressional district – she would tender her resignation from Congress, effective immediately. The five-term Republican dishonored her office when she aided and abetted insurrectionists at the United States Capitol. Rather than stand up to the mob, Walorski…
President Barack Obama, the First Family, former President George W. Bush and thousands of Americans commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches in an event that took place this past Saturday in Selma, Alabama. President Obama, who is the first African American president, delivered a poignant speech marking the occasion….
The former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency defended the agency’s use of torture during a CNN interview on Thursday. The Senate’s Intelligence Committee underwent an exhaustive investigation of the CIA torture program. The result of the investigation was an over 6,000 page report that detailed CIA torture during the Bush administration. The classified report…
In an impassioned speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday morning, outgoing Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo.) reiterated his call for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan and blasted the CIA and the White House for dodging not just accountability, but also the truth. While he acknowledged that the release of the Senate Intelligence…
“The public has to know about it. They don’t want the public to know about it.” That’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) told the Huffington Post on Thursday night regarding continued White House stalling over release of a report that catalogs the internal investigation of CIA torture during the Bush years. The comments followed a…
These aren’t the chemical weapons you’re looking for. New reporting from the New York Times, published online late Tuesday, reveals that although the administration of George W. Bush employed false claims of a chemical weapons program to justify its 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (no such program existed) – the reality is that substantial,…
