By John GeluardiThe
Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring
William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled
lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers.
Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April,
two months before the Senate Arms Services Committee (SASC) completed a
bipartisan investigation that found Haynes' actions at the Department of
Defense "deeply troubling."
In 2002 Haynes recomm
Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA reveals that Nancy Pelosi was explicitly briefed -- in 2002 -- that "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" (i.e. "torture") was being used against specific terror suspects such as Zayn al-Abidin