McClellan Still Ducking Queries on Weapons Trailers

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 The presidential spokesman won't say at what point the president learned of a Pentagon report which concluded that Iraqi weapons trailers discovered after the invasion were not--as Bush later claimed--WMD factories. No wonder McClellan won't answer. This could amount to proof positive that Bush outright lied about WMD. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

PETA Exposes Taser Tests on Pigs

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 The animal rights organization has obtained video footage of pigs being stunned with Taser guns as part of a Pentagon nonlethal weapons testing program. (This video is not for the queasy.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fourth Top General Calls on Rumsfeld to Resign

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 The retired commander, who was leading key forces in Iraq just a year ago, told CNN: "It speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out from retirement about the leadership climate in the Department of Defense." Dig deeper

The White House That Cried Wolf

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 28, 2006 The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Sign Me Up for the Pentagon Democracy Plan

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 21, 2006 I do like the idea of supporting democracy and think we should try it -- especially here in the US of A. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Colbert Gives Us the Word on the War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2006 Stephen Colbert continues to gain ground on Jon Stewart with his blistering satires of U.S. policy. This time he riffs on a new name that the Pentagon is using for the war on terror. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘They tried to attach themselves to his virtue; then they wiped their feet with him.’–Mary Tillman

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 8, 2006 With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand congressional hearings into the way the Bush administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2006 Colleges and universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even in the face of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay people. John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Murtha Ain’t Buying What the Pentagon’s Selling

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated Marine and critic of the Iraq war, says Bush's military leaders have no credibility when it comes to their pronouncements about progress in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

No Iraq Trip for Rep. Who Opposed Bush on Ports

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2006 The prominent opposition of Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) to Bush's Dubai Ports deal may have earned him some punishment from the White House: The Pentagon isn't providing him a plane for his planned delegation to Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Army Pays Nearly All Disputed Halliburton Charges

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2006 The military contractor will get reimbursed for nearly all its disputed costs in connection with a $2.41-billion no-bid contract to deliver supplies to Iraq, despite the Pentagon's findings that more than $250 million of that was "potentially excessive or unjustified." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq Not ‘Standing Up’ Anytime Soon

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2006 The Iraqi army now has ZERO battalions capable of fighting the insurgency without U.S. support. (The one battle-worthy battalion that the White House was so proud of has been downgraded.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )