Author: Tirge Caps

[this is a revised diary cross-posted at dKos]Reuters is reporting:Tom Delay quietly slipped into the energy bill a $1.5 billion fund for oil and natural gas drilling research that will benefit an energy consortium based in his...

The purpose of this diary is to outline the next steps in the enormous task of sorting through the documents made available to the ACLU via their Freedm of Information Act request concerning US detention practices and a list of...

I just saw a movie, Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories. This is an independent movie shot and directed by Mike Shiley, who was able to get over to Iraq for two months, December 2003-January 2004. Shiley doesn’t claim to be a...

This has scrolled off the list over at dKos; I’d like to give it a little more time. Protestors in Houston organized against Halliburton yesterday while the company was holding a stockholders meeting at the Four Seasons....

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning the Army has settled a billing dispute with Halliburton despite numerous concerns by Pentagon auditors that the company couldn’t provide adequate documentation to justify its...