ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/16/2009
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The Obama administration apparently is not going to turn over the rock to investigate the misdeeds and trespasses of the intelligence community in running amok after 9/11, especially with detainees. This is in keeping with Obama's non-confrontational "no drama" approach, but I think ...
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Ricks Calls for Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Matthew Yglesias —
... Tom Ricks says we need a truth and reconciliation commission to look into Bush-era misdeeds. I’m not 100 percent sold on the idea that that’s the right model, since the situations are pretty different. But the larger point holds—we need a real mechanism to find out (a) what happened, and (b) to put some accountability in place, even if that’s only symbolic accountability. We’ve been acting like a rogue superpower for the past eight years, and sweeping that all under the rug just because it fits Barack Obama’s political style doesn’t undue that ...
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... (22,000 or so!) was whether the new president intends to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture and warrantless wiretaps. Observers as disparate as Thomas Ricks and ...
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