An article written by Susan M. Reverby, a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College, has uncovered details on a study conducted between 1946 and 1948 in Guatemala, which involved experiments on Guatemalans. Essentially, the Public Health Service (PHS) inoculated people with syphilis.

It’s time for those who are trying to use the “Mosque Controversy” as a foil or counterargument to the public concern with Preacher Jones’ recklessness to realize the folly of their position and get on the right side of the issue once and for all.

In a remarkable appearance on Countdown Monday evening, Evan Kohlmann provided a compelling explanation of how the anti-Muslim hysteria that is now calling for the Park 51 project not to proceed with the building of a Muslim center in lower Manhattan is a tremendous recruiting tool for terrorists.

The tribunals in Guantánamo and newly revealed military campaigns are reinforcing some less than admirable qualities. The stain will not wash out as easily as some might want.

For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.

Dick Cheney may like to call those interrogations “enhanced,” but in everyday parlance they’re what the DOJ is implicitly acknowledging: torture.

“Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards, in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others said they had their fingernails ripped off, or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.”

Like Little Annie Fanny in the vintage Playboy cartoon, Stephanie (the heroine of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen) tends to shed articles of clothing as she becomes splattered with paint or doused with barbecue sauce during the course of her duties.

This week’s Audit looks at economic accountability from Goldman Sachs to contractors involved in the economic stimulus package.

Ah, yes. The torture pictures. Anything to keep them from being seen. Even though the Government settled the case the ACLU had brought, seeking those pictures, Obama now wants to welsh on his deal.

Yup, the revising of Bush’s legacy is now in full swing.