huffingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the president-elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate ...
thenation.com - 1/9/2009
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thenation.com —
A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over
the past week, in response to the Obama transition...
team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he ...
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Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on ...
thenation.com - 1/12/2009
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thenation.com —
A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over
the past week, in response to the Obama transition...
team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he ...
(more)
Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on ...
crookedtimber.org - 1/11/2009
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crookedtimber.org —
One of the safer predictions I’ve made in
recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):...
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
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Change.gov against Obama
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Note to PEBO: This “Prosecute the Torturers” Issue isn’t Going to Go Away (Part I)
Firedoglake —
... Seventy thousand people voted for it, making it far and away the number one question posed to the incoming administration.
Last night, Keith Olbermann read the new administration's wet noodle answer, essentially punting the issue to DoJ. Here's a clip: ...
Maybe, Going Forward, We Should Just Let Bernie Madoff Off?
Firedoglake —
... The synergy between right-wing fans of 24 who think torture is cool, members of the Bush administration who carried it out and the DC chattering class who mainstreamed it has created a climate where the political threat of directly dealing with the legacy of torture looms large. But 70,000 people demanding a Special Prosecutor on change.gov indicates that the political price to be paid for sweeping past abuses under the carpet might be even bigger. ...
1/12: Pressure From The Left
Blogometer —
... that it's not in the GOP's interest to support Obama's stimulus plan, and liberal bloggers see no reason to try to bring them on board. The netroots are also urging Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush admin.'s controversial intelligence-gathering policies. While Obama appears ...
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