newsweek.com - 1/25/2009
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Publicly at least, President Obama has made a clean break with his predecessor's controversial counterterrorism policies, but in private the new administration is leaving itself some wiggle room. A day before Obama signed executive orders closing Guantánamo Bay and banning torture, the White ...
hotair.com - 2/1/2009
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hotair.com —
For the last seven years, the Left has
screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition ,...
in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation. Never mind that the practice started in the Clinton ...
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Surprise! Obama expands renditions
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/1/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Let's give all of the folks who fumed
about rendition under Bush a day to voice their...
outrage over this from the LAT: Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool The role of the CIA's controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, ...
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Since It's Superbowl Sunday...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/23/2009
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And it is written, Obama need not do what is written:
A day before Obama signed executive orders closing Guantánamo Bay and banning torture, the White House’s top lawyer privately indicated to Congress that the new president reserved the right to ignore his own (and any other president’s) executive orders. In a closed-door appearance before the Senate intelligence committee, White House counsel Gregory Craig was asked whether the president was required by law to follow executive orders. According to people ...
If Torture is for the Lazy, Stupid, and Pseudo-Tough, What Does that Make the CIA?
Firedoglake —
... . Additionally, though, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek writes that there's confusion over whether Craig told the Senate Select Intelligence Committee that Obama can exempt himself from his executive orders -- that is, order an off-the-books torture session. (As opposed to going Jack Bauer on some hapless detainee himself.) ...
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Must’ve actually READ some of the daily shit Pres. Bush has been reading for the last eight years. Hey, Bam … break all mirrors in the White House. You’re about to go gray.
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