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salon.com - 1/8/2009

America then and now - Glenn Greenwald

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(updated below - Update II) Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Adopted by the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1950 : Principle I Any person who commits an act which constitutes a ...

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov

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salon.com - 1/11/2009

Obama's allegedly "new" centrism and his ABC interview today - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II - Update III) The central tenets of the Beltway religion -- particularly when a Democrat is in the White House -- have long been "centrism" and "bipartisanship." The only good Democrats are the ones who scorn their ... (more) Obama's allegedly "new" centrism and his ABC interview ...

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salon.com - 1/2/2009

More oddities in the U.S. "debate" over Israel/Gaza - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below) This Rasmussen Reports poll -- the first to survey American public opinion specifically regarding the Israeli attack on Gaza -- strongly bolsters the severe disconnect I documented the other day between (a) American public opinion on ... (more) More oddities in the U.S. "debate" over Israel/Gaza - ...

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salon.com - 1/5/2009

Obama's impressive new OLC chief - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — ( Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V ) The Office of Legal Counsel, inside the Justice Department, is probably the most consequential federal government office that remains relatively obscure. The legal opinions which it ... (more) Obama's impressive new OLC chief - Glenn Greenwald

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More on Torture
Swampland — ... A number of readers have taken me to task for not calling for the prosecution of George Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on. Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration pursuing this course of action, if they so choose. I do have a practical problem with it...and so does Obama, which is why he won't pursue this for a very good reason: there are much bigger things at stake. We are in the midst of an economic crisis. We have a multitude of problems overseas to be resolved. And there are enormous political ...

Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Thousands of Americans are asking whether President Obama will order an independent investigation to ensure our laws are enforced -- in an era when powerful people in government have engaged in criminal conduct and relentlessly tried to make their conduct out of bounds for media and political discussion. We expect a "yes," "no" or detailed explanation of how and when Obama and his aides will make this decision. Time is running out, of course, because the question must be answered, for Congress and the public, before Eric Holder's confirmation hearing. He must explain how he ...

Hullabaloo — ... As Greenwald discusses today, Obama is doing what all Democrats in my adult lifetime have always done --- he is working as hard as he can to prove that he isn't captive to his left. (You would think that the fact that the left is the law and order faction on this issue would at least make some of them scratch their heads.) And he seems to be doing a good job of it --- even Pat Buchanan is effusive in his praise of Obama for making sure that everyone knows he isn't "Reverend Wright's man." ...