commentsfromleftfield.com - 12/20/2008
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In a must-read post today, Glenn Greenwald challenges Ruth Marcus and the establishment Washington consensus , in which the pursuit of war crimes charges against soon-to-be-former Bush officials is arbitrarily dismissed as either too polarizing, too partisan, or just too goddamn difficult to ...
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No More Mister Nice Blog —
... the late Mark Felt (Watergate's Deep Throat) for authorizing warrantless searches of the homes of people who knew members of the Weather Underground. Marcus looks at this in the context of how Bush-era torture and illegal surveillance might be dealt with once Bush is out of office; she says, In the current unspooling, I unexpectedly find myself more in the camp of Reagan.... This infuriates Glenn Greenwald, who denounces "the Washington establishment," and matttbastard at Comments from Left Field, who blames "Beltway inertia." Glenn is ...
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