Bush Administration Got the Guantanamo it Wanted
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/29/2009 — I admit that when I first saw the title of Karen Greenberg's The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days , I was a bit concerned. I couldn't match the description of Guantanamo as the 'least worst' anything with the images of orange ...

If Torture Works, Why Did We Stop Doing It In 2005?
librarygrape.com 5/4/2009 — Over the last few years, it has been difficult to keep track of all the different instances of lies and misdirection about the Bush torture program. Way back in the day, the Bush administration claimed that we didn't abuse or mistreat prisoners. Then, when the horrors of Abu Ghraib came to ...

The Associated Press: Bush: It's 'liberating' to be out of office
google.com 5/22/2009 — 3 hours ago ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor's yard for relief. "And there I was, ...

Newsweek Compares Bush Era as Star Wars to Obama's as Star Trek
newsbusters.org 5/8/2009 — Naturally all Bush's folks are the Evil Characters In a transparently unhinged and partisan hit job against several Bush administration officials, Newsweek thought it would be amusing to compare the Bush era and the Obama era by analogizing them ...

Bush Flashback: “War Crimes Will Be Prosecuted…It Will Be No Defense To Say, ‘I Was Just Following Orders’”
thinkprogress.org 4/28/2009 — Just before launching his invasion of Iraq, President Bush went on national television to issue an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, urging him to leave his country within 48 hours. Bush also had this message for “ all Iraqi military and civilian ...

Farewell to the man in the arena
shadow.foreignpolicy.com 1/16/2009 — By Christian Brose And there you have it folks. Curtains for the Bush presidency . No big surprises tonight. And nothing that will be much remembered either I'm afraid -- no evocations to " steer clear of permanent alliances ," no ...

Day of Prayer Task Force Wants Obama to Be Like Bush
rightwingwatch.org 5/7/2009 — Last week we wrote about how, this year, it didn't look like the National Day of Prayer Task Force, headed by Shirley Dobson, was going to be involved in any formal White House observance of the event.  And that is now officially the case ... ...

Bush: Dictatorships Don't Investigate Torture - We Will
librarygrape.com 4/27/2009 — Add this to the library of rank hypocrisy to bubble up from the Bush administration. Here was Bush speaking in an interview on al-Arabiya after the Bush-sanctioned horrors at Abu Ghraib became known: It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. ...

Thoughts from Oceania
corner.nationalreview.com 5/4/2009 — With the new administration's reconsideration of military tribunals in Guantánamo, the coverage of Obama's security measures is right out of Orwell's Ministry of Information. Beneath the hero worship, we can detect, however, that the shelf life of ...

National Day of Prayer Task Force Knocks Obama White House - God & Country (usnews.com)
usnews.com 5/7/2009 — The National Day of Prayer Task Force, headquartered at the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, has issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration for the way it's marking the annual event this Thursday. Though the Obama ...

First 100 days: Breaking away from 43 — First Read 4/27/2009
USA Today sees Obama’s first 100 days in office as a sharp break from Bush’s presidency. ”Bush focused on the Iraq war; Obama has placed more of an emphasis on Afghanistan. Obama wants the government to have a role in reshaping the nation's ...

McCain differs with Cheney on interrogation memos — Reuters: Politics 4/27/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Releasing classified memos showing whether harsh Bush-era interrogation methods yielded useful information from terrorism suspects is not necessary, Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday in a public disagreement with ...

Obama seeks reversal of mountaintop mining rule (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 4/27/2009
AP - The Obama administration wants to reverse a last-minute Bush-era rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near streams.

Former Bush adviser opens new communications firm — CNN Political Ticker 4/27/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Ed Gillespie, former counselor to President George W. Bush, is launching a new communications firm. The new firm, Ed Gillespie Strategies, will offer communications services like reputation and crisis management and help preparing ...

Obama and the Dems' Dilemma: Look Forward or Back? — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 4/27/2009
The uproar over torture raises a tricky question that the Administration is still grappling with: Should the Bush administration be held to account?